Holding the note, Lynn sat on the floor and quickly began to think.
Based on the clues he currently had, a rough chain of logic slowly took shape in his mind.
1. The character he was playing might have suffered prolonged bullying from his classmates. The scar on his hand and the dead rat in his pencil case were evidence of that.
2. The character he was playing harbored intense resentment and had made a pact with that "ghost," paying with his own life to take revenge on those classmates.
3. The ways those two students had died might have been related to how they had bullied the character he was playing.
The first victim might have been the bully who had put the dead rat in his pencil case. He had killed the rat with the character's pencil and framed him for it, making everyone in the class stare at him strangely.
Lynn recalled the terrifying gazes that had turned toward him in unison when he opened the pencil case.
If his guess was right, that must have been what the character he was playing had once endured.
The second victim had been pinned to death with knives by the "ghost," matching the scar on the back of his hand.
In other words.
The second victim had once inflicted serious physical injuries on the character he was playing.
Lynn's eyes flickered as his mind raced.
What about the teacher?!
What role did the teacher play in all this?
If I put myself in that bullied student's shoes, had he asked the teacher for help before resorting to something so extreme?
Lynn looked up at the figure on the dimly lit teaching platform, whose back had been turned to him the entire time.
He narrowed his eyes and, keeping his