Yuko Kanoe Starts Putting Her Brain to Work

However, as the Miyauchi Hiyage, the gradually appearing Yuuko seemed to sense something as well.

After casting a curious glance at Miyauchi Hiyage, she took the initiative to approach Miyauchi Hiyage's location.

Can you see me?

When they got within a meter or two, Yuuko took the initiative to ask Miyauchi Hiyage Himekage a question.

Perhaps because they hadn't had much contact, in Miyauchi Hiyage's eyes, Yuuko's figure still seemed somewhat elusive, and her voice sounded a little distorted.

But upon closer inspection, it is indeed a slightly larger version of Kanoe Kirie, except for the hairstyle and chest size.

Just as Miyauchi Hiyage was sizing up the other person, wondering whether or not to respond,

Behind Miyauchi Hiyage, Fujimiya Miki's heart couldn't help but rise.

As the shadow of the Miyauchi Hiyage, a woman's figure gradually appeared on the camera's screen.

As for the clothes, it was indeed the same school uniform she had seen the evening before last, and the same long black hair she had that day.

But in other aspects, there are quite a few differences.

For example, the girl now appearing in the camera's view has completely black eyes, so you can't see anything, and her mouth is stretched outwards, creating a somewhat creepy angle.

She looks exactly like a typical female ghost from those horror stories.

Fujimiya Miki hurriedly reminded Miyauchi Hiyage loudly, while also carrying the footage she had just captured on her camera and walking towards Miyauchi Hiyage's location.

This action surprised Kanoe Yuko. Did that girl use the camera in her hand to film her current appearance?

But her current appearance shouldn't be enough to scare anyone, right?

She floated to the side, wanting to know exactly how the other person had photographed her.

"The figure only appeared for a few seconds, but I managed to capture it in a photo. Take a look at this picture."

As Fujimiya Miki handed over the camera, Miyauchi Hiyage, along with Kanoe Yuko behind him, peeked out.

The things captured in the photograph were indeed quite different from what he saw with his own eyes.

Looking at the photo of Shadow Yuuko, who exuded an ominous aura, Miyauchi Hiyage glanced at Yuuko behind him, who also looked puzzled.

It seems that Shadow Yuuko has indeed begun to affect Yuuko's true form.

Just as Yuko saw this photo, the sun finally began to set.

The moment the connection between the two people and the ghost made the other's figure fully revealed, Fujimiya Miki noticed that there seemed to be a new figure behind him.

She was so startled she almost dropped the Camera Obscura in her hand.

At the Miyauchi Hiyage and Yuuko, one human and one ghost, instinctively reached out to take the camera.

After Miyauchi Hiyage caught his camera first, Yuko's hand also touched the Camera Obscura the next moment.

Then she hissed as if she had been electrocuted and quickly withdrew her hand.

"It's so hot! How can your camera be so hot?!"

At this moment, Miyauchi Hiyage felt that the other party's cries of pain sounded much closer to reality.

He turned around and blocked Fujimiya Miki behind him, while Fujimiya Miki, realizing what was happening, also tightly gripped Miyauchi Hiyage's arm.

"Kanoe Yuko?"

As the Miyauchi Hiyage, it sends out an inquiry.

Kanoe Yuko paused for a moment, then nodded. "You know my name?"

"I came here specifically for you."

Miyauchi Hiyage answered in this way, then carefully examined Kanoe Yuko in front of him, and quickly explained the purpose of his visit.

"Film my story and post it online?" Hearing Miyauchi Hiyage's words, Kanoe Yuko seemed interested.

Although she has been at the school for a long time and has witnessed the progress and changes of the times.

But apart from a few rare occasions, she was actually in a daze the whole time, and only knew a little bit about the internet.

"I don't mind these things, but why is your camera so hot, and why does it take such ugly pictures of me? This isn't me at all!"

Chapter 177: Kanoe Yuko's Mind Is Getting Hard

Because Miyauchi Hiyage only mentioned that he wanted to film the strange tales and rumors that Yuko had been circulating in the school over the years and post them online, without mentioning how Yuko died back then.

Therefore, when Kanoe Yuko heard what Miyauchi Hiyage said, she only found it somewhat novel and did not associate it with the cause of her death. She had lost all her memories from the beginning and even automatically cleared and formatted the extra memories in her mind every once in a while.

She would subconsciously avoid thinking about these things.

She was simply observing the boy in front of her with curiosity.

It seemed that the other person's expression showed no fear or panic whatsoever.

She pointed to herself. "It seems you're not afraid of me?"

She even gestured wildly, saying, "And in your camera, you filmed me looking so ugly, how come you didn't react at all?"

Behind Miyauchi Hiyage, Fujimiya Miki held tightly to Miyauchi Hiyage's arm, listening to the conversation between Miyauchi Hiyage and the female ghost.

It was only then that she realized that the "ghost" that appeared before her did not seem to have the ferocious appearance shown in the footage.

Instead, he seemed like an ordinary person, and even his tone of voice was perfectly normal.

Except when the afterglow of the setting sun falls on Kanoe Yuko, her figure does not cast any physical shadow on the ground.

She wanted to double-check with the camera, but she was also a little nervous.

Sensing Monomi's tension, Miyauchi Hiyage gently patted her arm to reassure her.

Then, he continued to look at Kanoe Yuko in front of him.

"I've been through a lot recently and filmed a lot of strange things with this camera. Now is the time when I'm most receptive to this world. I've also heard a lot about you, Miss Yuko, in the past two days. Knowing that you're not that kind of Evil Spirits, there's nothing to be afraid of."

"As for this camera... if you don't mind, could I take another close-up photo?"

As he picked up his camera, he also made Kanoe Yuko strike a pose she liked.

This reaction made Kanoe Yuko feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Is this guy really that receptive?

Or is it that the pace of change in this era is much faster than she imagined?

Has it become possible for people to live in peace with the other spirits of the dead?

Amidst this bewilderment, Kanoe Yuko remained somewhat stiff as Miyauchi Hiyage finished taking her picture.

The close-up shot made Kanoe Yuko's image in the photo much clearer than the one taken by Fujimiya Miki earlier.

But the person in the photo still looked the same as before, with a dark aura all over their body, which was somewhat eerie.

Kanoe Yuko couldn't help but pout, looking at the photo with a face full of disgust.

"Your camera definitely has a problem!"

However, upon closer inspection, Miyauchi Hiyage can still discern some issues in this photograph.

He pointed to Yuko's silhouette in the photo, then continued to look at Kanoe Yuko in front of him and gave an explanation.

"My camera only became like this in the last half month. I also only recently learned that ghosts do exist in this world. Miss Yuko, you are the first ghost I have ever met who can still maintain complete rationality. So I don't really know what's going on with this camera."

"Perhaps what it captured was another side of you, Miss Yuko. Look here, you can actually see a bit of what you look like now here."

The Miyauchi Hiyage the photo refers to the area around Kanoe Yuko's eyes. If you look closely, you can see Kanoe Yuko's normal pupils, but most of them are obscured by her dark and lifeless, eerie gaze.

"In other words, it seems that there might be some issues with your Spiritual Body, Miss Yuko, resulting in two different forms, which is why it appears this way in the photo,"

Hearing Miyauchi Hiyage's answer, Kanoe Yuko looked somewhat dissatisfied.

How could that look be her?

She had lived in the Seiwa Academy for so many years, and had never appeared in front of others looking like this.

Those students who occasionally saw her at dusk would only play simple pranks on her; she would never use that creepy appearance to scare them.

It should be noted that over the years, she has done quite a lot of work at the Seiwa Academy. In the past few years, she often mingled with the crowd to participate in the school's physical examination activities, and no one found out that there was anything wrong with her until the end of the examination.

However, at the end of each physical examination, a physical examination form with the same values would inexplicably appear, but without any class or name filled in.

That's why she scared the school doctor for several years in a row.

Just thinking about it made Kanoe Yuko feel a little dizzy.

It seems she can't quite remember how she managed to do those things back then.

She felt that she had been living in a daze for the past year or two, seemingly just taking a walk around the school at dusk every day and then going back to sleep.

It seems that a few days ago, a male student who had just enrolled in school secretly went to loiter around her house.

In the past, she would have at least come out to tease that boy a little.

However, because she was too tired, she did not take the initiative to scare the other party, so after wandering around for a while, the other party left the Old Schoolhouse.

On the contrary, the fact that she had just been burned by the strange camera in the boy's hand seemed to have made her a little more sober.

Originally, Kanoe Yuko wanted to ask more questions about whether, when her videos were uploaded to the internet, people would only see her looking unattractive.

If there are problems with the Spiritual Body, we can find a way to solve them later, but the photos shown to others must never look like that!

Kanoe Yuko wanted to say something more, but Miyauchi Hiyage glanced at the position of the sun.

The sun had already set halfway down.

When the sun has completely set, I wonder if Kanoe Yuko will eventually revert to her previous semi-transparent and dazed state.

Therefore, Miyauchi Hiyage stopped dwelling on the topic of Kanoe Yuko being Shadow Yuuko by the Camera Obscura. He stated that since Kanoe Yuko was unwilling, he could choose not to release the photos, and even if he did, he would use post-production techniques to recreate her current appearance.

For example, it would be great to have Kanoe Kirie wear a wig and make a cameo appearance as Kanoe Yuko.

Miyauchi Hiyage thought to himself, then quickly continued to ask the woman in front of him, Kanoe Yuko, if she remembered anything from her previous life.

And did she know about the cenotaph on the hillside with her name on it?

This sentence piqued Yuko's interest, who had been wondering if she had been sleeping too much lately.

"My cenotaph?"

She had lived in the Seiwa Academy for so long, and she had no idea that such a thing existed.

Miyauchi Hiyage then pointed out the way to Kanoe Yuko: "It's on that hillside. There's a small path halfway up to the top. Walk along the path for a few minutes and you'll see a stone tablet with your name on it."

Upon hearing this, Kanoe Yuko also showed some interest, something she hadn't done in a long time.

She can't remember, and doesn't want to think about these things.

But I still feel a little bothered that someone would commemorate me in this way.

"I don't remember much about my life before I died, but could you take me to see that stone tablet?"

Miyauchi Hiyage nodded naturally, then pulled Fujimiya Miki towards the mountain.

Just a minute or two after we started walking, before we even reached the top of the hill, the sun had already completely set.

Kanoe Yuko's voice also quickly became dim and transparent, and her voice became much more ethereal again.

However, the other party still followed behind Miyauchi Hiyage, seemingly determined to see his own stone tablet.

He would occasionally take out a camera, pretending to use it to confirm whether Kanoe Yuko was still following him.

This not-so-long slope took Miyauchi Hiyage Himekage almost half as long as the day before, finally bringing Kanoe Yuko, whose figure was completely invisible to ordinary people, to her tombstone.

"This is it, Miss Yuuko. What impressions do you have of this place?"

Looking at Kanoe Yuko, who was covered in black aura and exuding a low-pressure atmosphere in front of the camera, Fujimiya Miki had no idea what was going on with her.

Because the camera can't capture the other person's current expression, it also doesn't know if the other person is speaking.