"These sugar-roasted chestnuts smell amazing..." Everyone who tasted them praised them, and the old woman chuckled happily when she heard that. "Young folks, eat some more. It'll make your journey easier." Such words sounded rather ominous at night. Just as the group was about to tell the old woman not to say things like that carelessly, the first person to eat a chestnut suddenly clutched his throat. "Urgh..." He began to groan.
The others were horrified, but before they could say anything, they too clutched their throats and started groaning. The old woman merely smiled. "Young folks, Granny Xiong's sugar-roasted chestnuts are good, aren't they..." The group widened their eyes at her words, but before long, they all collapsed dead on the ground...
A while later, "Chestnuts, delicious sugar-roasted chestnuts..." The old woman's cries were the only sounds left on the street! Sogo Doma ended the story with a soft laugh.
Utaha Kasumigaoka and Umaru Doma, having listened to the story: "..."
After a long while, Umaru spoke with black lines running down her face.
"Onii-chan, was that supposed to be a horror story?"
Sogo Doma said, "What was scary about it? This story is pretty famous. It's called Granny Xiong's Sugar-Roasted Chestnuts! It also introduces an interesting person..."
"What's interesting about her?" Utaha Kasumigaoka retorted. "Umaru-chan is right. This is obviously a horror story, okay? Did those passersby have some grudge against that old woman? The story..." Never mentioned it at all!
Before she could finish, Sogo Doma blinked. "No grudge. If there were a grudge, it would be a revenge story. How could it be interesting then?"
Utaha Kasumigaoka: "..."
"If there was no grudge or resentment, why did the old woman poison and kill those people? This is obviously a horror story..."
"That's what makes the old