Takezawa's Ghost - Episode 18

Wiggle.

　This is a mysterious story that appears in a story posted on a ghost story submission site in 2000.

　It is probably thought to be a work of fiction.

　Its content was worthy of consideration, and others published altered versions of the story one after another.

　Yes. It was meant to be a work of fiction.

　However, it seems that many of these strange phenomena are the result of humans wishing strongly for them.

　Many are frightened and amused by the squirming.

　As a result, people’s delusions give rise to strange happenings.

　Furthermore, it is difficult to come up with a solution for characters for which no clear method of exorcism has been presented.

　This makes it troublesome.

(Totally annoying.)

Machida-san is the type of person who thinks that novels, manga, movies, in short, stories in general are pointless, and he goes beyond hating creators who create things that get in the way of his work to hating them.

(Don’t be ridiculous. Last time it was so hard that I couldn’t sleep for two days. I don’t want to have to interact with a monster of that level again.)

　After thinking about it for a while, I made an immediate decision.

(Okay. I’ll just say something random and go home.)

　Machida-san had quite a nice personality.

He racks his brains thinking of an excuse to leave. He’s been good at this since his school days, and has a track record of convincing teachers about why he was late.

“Ah, mother.”

　Realizing that taking too much time would be a bad idea, the moment he opened his mouth, an ear-splitting synthetic sound rang out.

“It’s a girl!”

　With that, Kunekune left his daughter’s side and clung to Machida-san.

　From that moment on, my daughter regained her senses.

“M-Mom…? I…”

“Kanna!”

　A touching scene between parent and child was unfolding over there, but Machida was too busy to pay attention to it.

(…Huh? Am I possessed by the wiggle?)

　Machida is not the type of person who is easily confused, but at that moment, he broke out into a cold sweat.

“You’re truly a professional medium! You can get rid of evil spirits in an instant!”

“Haha…”

　I couldn’t afford to overcharge my excited client.

　Because there’s an evil spirit behind it.

(It’s heavy and disgusting. I want you to leave quickly.)

　I’m also beginning to get fed up with clients who praise Machida excessively.

　I decided to leave the house for the time being because I felt there was a possibility that I would start yelling something abusive if I continued like this.

　Even when I started walking, the wiggling body remained stuck to my body.

　Even if I try to talk to them, they don’t seem interested, and no matter how much I use my abilities, I can’t communicate with them.

　Machida felt depressed and slowly walked home.

　For the next month, I was mentally ill and couldn’t go outside.

　Wouldn’t it be better for a conman like me to just die? I’m ashamed of myself compared to people who live honest lives.

　Such things that I don’t normally think about were dominating my brain.

　However, in early June, things started to heat up.

　After struggling mentally and through many twists and turns to regain his sense of self, Machida makes a decision.

　When the squirming motion is sealed away.

　An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

　So Machida headed to the abandoned hospital.

　Yes. It’s the hospital where I’m currently staying.

　It seems to be a famous and infamous building in the psychic network.

　A place suffocated by people’s negative emotions.

　Three university students who tried the test of courage died of suffocation. I’ve been hospitalized for days, so why am I okay?

　Well, that’s not the topic right now, so let’s leave it for now.

　Anyway, Machida came to the hospital to have the monsters fight each other.

　It was a pretty crazy idea, but he was in terrible shape at the time.

　However, in the end, the tactic proves successful.

　In a way that was different from what Machida had expected.