We won't believe anything...
...unless we see it with our own eyes!
[At least that's how I interpret that sentence...]
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At my school, in the far north of the 3rd floor, there is a classroom 3-9 that is not being used anymore.
It is always locked so that no student can enter anymore, and yet...
...they say that when you walk past this classroom after 6 p.m., you can hear a female student's laughter from inside.
At my school, the stairs in the old school building have only 12 steps during the day, but...
...when you walk up these stairs, after the sun has set, there is 1 step more than usual...
They say it's caused by the ghost of a student who fell down these stairs and died on a Friday the 13th.
They say that if you go by the music room at about 2 o'clock in the night, you can hear the sound of a piano being played in the pitch black darkness of that room.
My friend heard it and she said it was Chopin's «Raindrop».
But there are even people who said they saw a white shadow sitting at the piano.
At my school, in the girl's restroom... you can meet Hanako-san.
If you stand in front of the fourth stall's door, turn in a circle four times and shout "Ha~nako-sa~n"...
...you will hear a voice reply "Yeees?" from directly behind you.
They say it's the ghost of a girl that was bullied and locked in there only to be forgotten, 10 years ago.
MIKA: "It's open!"
YUKARI: "Psst!"
MIKA: "Whoa, it's pitch black in here..."
YUKARI: "Be quiet already!"
MIKA: "Say, don't classrooms suddenly feel much... vaster at night? Like they somehow got bigger."
YUKARI: "That's just your imagination."
YUKARI: "By the way, Mika... Where do we go from here?"
MIKA: "Just up the stairs after that door. Our destination is the restroom on the third floor!"
MIKA: "This is the old school building alright... You can, like... almost taste the age of this place..."
YUKARI: "Hey, look! The stairs..."
MIKA: "Luck is against us, huh... It's kind of annoying, but we've gotta take a detour then."
MIKA: "At the far end of this hallway, there should be another stairway."
MIKA: "By the way, Yukari! Yukari!"
YUKARI: "What is it?"
MIKA: "Well, we're here, because the rumour said there was a girl with bobbed hair that appears in that restroom at night, but..."
MIKA: "I wanted to know, if you actually believe in it."
YUKARI: "Oh, come on. Act like a high schooler for once!"
YUKARI: "We're not in elementary school anymore. There's no way something like that will really appear."
MIKA: "How can you say that! This rumour even has a background story and all!"
MIKA: "So, like, 5 years ago after summer vacation there was a baby that was flushed down the toilet and--"
YUKARI: "Flushed down the toilet...?!"
MIKA: "Yeah, well... A girl had become pregnant and didn't want anyone to find out, so... you know..."
YUKARI: "......"
MIKA: "So this girl with bobbed hair is the spirit of that child..."
YUKARI: "Didn't you say something else just yesterday? That it was the spirit of a girl that had been bullied and died?"
MIKA: "Huh? I did?!"
YUKARI: "You're really something..."
MIKA: "Wh-whatever! The important part is that such a toilet ghost really appears in our school, too!"
CHISATO: "Uhm... Is it really okay to be here...?"
MIKA: "You came all the way with us and NOW you're saying that?!"
MIKA: "Besides, I didn't even invite you, anyway!"
YUKARI: "I'm the one who asked her to come."
YUKARI: "She's your senior, too, so show some respect!"
YUKARI: "What is it?!"
MIKA: "Outside the window..."
MIKA: "I think I saw something move there just now..."
MIKA: "Just kidding! Did I scare you?"
YUKARI: "......"
YUKARI: "You..."
MIKA: "C'mon! It was just a joke! Don't get mad!"
YUKARI: "I guess that's just the way you are..."
MIKA: "I'm just a pretty little sweetheart! ♥"
YUKARI: "... I should've never listened to you and come here..."
YUKARI: "There isn't going to be any ghost girl, anyway..."
CHISATO: "I think there is..."
YUKARI: "Huh?"
CHISATO: "I can feel it, Yukari."
CHISATO: "There's someone in this school buidling..."
YUKARI: "......"
MIKA: "Okay, we're on the third floor!"
MIKA: "The restroom is that way!"
MIKA: "Here we are!"
MIKA: "This is the restroom where the rumoured girl with bobbed hair appears!"
CHISATO: "The air is horrible in here..."
MIKA: "Well, it IS a room full of toilets, after all."
"Look!"
MIKA: "It's really sealed off. So the rumour is true...?"
CHISATO: "Yukari? What should we do?"
YUKARI: A: "Tell me how to summon this girl." B: "... Let's investigate some more."
YUKARI: A: "Tell me how to summon this girl." B: "... Let's investigate some more." [X]
YUKARI: "Mika, can you peek inside?"
MIKA: "That's a bit difficult considering my height... Let's see..."
MIKA: "Hmmm. No... It's impossible."
YUKARI: "Anyway, it doesn't look like anything could leave this stall."
MIKA: "... Maybe it's to trap something in there?"
MIKA: "And maybe what is trapped in there is that girl with bobbed hair..."
YUKARI: "Don't say that!"
MIKA: "Oh well, whatever. Would be boring to see the creature before we even summoned it, anyway."
MIKA: "So, let's try it out! Let's summon the rumoured ghost girl!"
MIKA: "The instructions for summoning her are actually really simple."
MIKA: "You just stand in front of this door, spin around 3 times, and then knock on the door 3 times!""
MIKA: "If you do that, there's supposed to be a female voice answering you."
A: "Can you explain that in some more detail?" B: "Might as well give it a try." C: "I really don't want to do this..."
A: "Can you explain that in some more detail?" [X] B: "Might as well give it a try." C: "I really don't want to do this..."
YUKARI: "...And then? What happens after we summon that girl?"
MIKA: "...Huh?"
YUKARI: "What's going to happen after she replies to your knocking?!"
YUKARI: "A girl will come out of this door?"
YUKARI: "Even though the door is nailed shut? How is that going to work?"
MIKA: "Uhm, well..."
MIKA: "I don't really know the details after the knocking part..."
YUKARI: "Why am I not surprised!"
A: "I don't think we should do this." B: "Oh well, let's give it a shot."
A: "I don't think we should do this." B: "Oh well, let's give it a shot." [X]
YUKARI: "Say, is it really necessary to do this in the dark?"
MIKA: "Err, I don't think there's a rule saying it has to be dark."
MIKA: "Should we switch on the lights?"
A: "Nevermind." B: "Yes, please."
A: "Nevermind." [X] B: "Yes, please."
YUKARI: "Nevermind. We'd be in trouble, if someone noticed the light from outside and came here to check it out."
MIKA: "You got a point."
YUKARI: "So how do we do this again?"
MIKA: "First we spin around 3 times."
MIKA: "Then we knock 3 times."
YUKARI: "What a stupid ritual..."
YUKARI: "One..."
MIKA: "Two more!"
YUKARI: "Two..."
YUKARI: "Three..."
YUKARI: "And now we knock 3 times, right?"
MIKA: "Exactly."
MIKA: "Go ahead! Knock yourself out!"
MIKA: "......"
MIKA: "Is anybody in theeere?"
MIKA: "Hellooo?"
MIKA: "Can you hear meee?"
YUKARI: "Knock it off, already, Mika."
MIKA: "Hmm... There isn't even, like, the slightest kind of rattling noise from inside or something..."
YUKARI: "Are you satisfied now?"
MIKA: "Meh..."
YUKARI: "Why on earth would you be sad that NO ghost appeared?"
MIKA: "Well, the truth is... There's another rumour about this girl."
YUKARI: "...?"
MIKA: "You're supposed to be able to make a wish when you meet this girl."
YUKARI: "A wish? And you actually seriously believe that?!"
MIKA: "Uhm, not necessarily, but... I just thought it might be interesting to try..."
YUKARI: "Well, that explains your enthusiasm, huh."
YUKARI: "Too bad it didn't work. Let's go home."
CHISATO: "Yukari, hold on."
YUKARI: "What's wrong?"
CHISATO: "Actually, I also know a story about a female ghost in a restroom..."
CHISATO: "My version is a bit different from Mika's, though..."
CHISATO: "I heard you can summon a lonely girl... who has been waiting for someone to play with her forever..."
MIKA: "Chisato! Do you know how to summon that girl from your story?"
CHISATO: "Yes..."
CHISATO: "A long time ago, when I was still very little, I was all alone at home."
CHISATO: "But I remember a little girl that was suddenly there and played with me..."
CHISATO: "A mysterious girl whose name I didn't even know..."
CHISATO: "She taught me how to summon the ghost from that story..."
MIKA: "What...?"
A: "I don't want to hear any more..." B: "And how exactly?"
A: "I don't want to hear any more..." B: "And how exactly?" [X]
YUKARI: "Chisato, can you tell us how?"
CHISATO: "Well... The part about spinning 3 times is the same. And then..."
MIKA: "Then what?"
MIKA: "You better not leave out the 3 times knocking part! That one's a must!"
YUKARI: "Mika! Let her finish talking!"
CHISATO: "Sorry, Mika..."
CHISATO: "But that's actually where my version starts to differ from yours."
CHISATO: "I was taught to say «One, one, two, two, one, two, two»."
MIKA: "One... two... what?"
CHISATO: "«One, one, two, two, one, two, two»."
CHISATO: "It's refers to a hopscotch pattern, where you jump on one leg, one leg, two legs, two legs, one leg, two legs, two legs."
CHISATO: "You can leave out the jumping, though. Just saying it is enough and the girl will come out thinking someone wants to play with her."
MIKA: "And what about the part where you can make a wish?"
CHISATO: "Well, you're supposed to call her when you wish to play with someone, so I guess in that respect... your wish comes true?"
MIKA: "How lame."
MIKA: "If I could really make a wish, I'd wish for something cooler."
Mika: "Like, a piercing! And perfume, and lipstick, and a ring..."
YUKARI: "Why the hell would you ask a child for that?! Buy that stuff on your own!"
MIKA: "Anyway, it sounds interesting! Why don't we give it a try? We've got nothing to lose!"
A: "Guess you're right. Let's give it a try." B: "No way. That's not even worth trying."
A: "Guess you're right. Let's give it a try." [X] B: "No way. That's not even worth trying."
YUKARI: "I never thought you'd be interested in this, though, Chisato."
CHISATO: "Sorry."
MIKA: "So... First, we spin around, right?"
MIKA: "And we do that 3 times, correct?"
CHISATO: "Yes, that's right..."
MIKA: "Alright, here we go."
YUKARI: "One..."
YUKARI: "Two..."
YUKARI: "Three..."
YUKARI: "And then we say... What was it again?"
CHISATO: "This part you should remember well!"
CHISATO: "It's: «One, one, two, two, one, two, two»."
A: "Let's say it all together." B: "I won't say it."
A: "Let's say it all together." [X] B: "I won't say it."
YUKARI: "Okay, all together now..."
[They are not literally saying numbers, but it was the best way I could think of for translating this; "kikku" and "ton", as I understand it, are onomatopoetica for jumping with one or two legs in hopscotch.]
MIKA: "Uhm, Chisato?"
MIKA: "Nothing's happening?"
CHISATO: "......"
MIKA: "Chisato?"
CHISATO: "......"
MIKA: "Huh, so in the end none of these rumours were real."
MIKA: "I really believed yours, Chisato... I was actually quite excited what might happen!"
MIKA: "How boring..."
YUKARI: "In that case... Let's just go home, okay?"
MIKA: "Roger!"
CHISATO: "......"
YUKARI: "Ah! Before we go home, I really need to..."
MIKA: "Huh?"
MIKA: "Ah, I get it. You've gotta use the toilet, right?"
MIKA: "I guess we'll go on ahead, then?"
A: "Sure, go ahead." B: "No, wait!"
A: "Sure, go ahead." B: "No, wait!" [X]
YUKARI: "I won't take long! So please wait here."
MIKA: "How long is not long?"
YUKARI: "...You're the most impatient person I know."
MIKA: "Yukari! You forgot something!"
MIKA: "Or are you not going to wash your hands?"
YUKARI: "No, I didn't? I was about to..."
«Hey...»
«Let's play together...»
YUKARI: "...D-did you see that?!"
MIKA: "Clear as day..."
CHISATO: "She really came... We summoned her..."
MIKA: "I can't believe it..."
YUKARI: "What should we do?"
CHISATO: "First of all, we should get out of the school..."
A: Turn around. B: Run away.
A: Turn around. B: Run away. [X]
A: Go down the stairs. B: Enter a classroom.
A: Go down the stairs. [X] B: Enter a classroom.
MIKA: "H-huh...?"
MIKA: "Why is she following us?!"
YUKARI: "A ghost that makes your wish come true, my ass! What a great idea that was!"
MIKA: "Hey, it's not my fault! It's what everybody told me!"
CHISATO: "Y-Yukari...!"
CHISATO: "Look..."
CHISATO: "We went downstairs from the second floor, didn't we...?"
MIKA: "But if that's true, then... why are there stairs leading down?"
A: Ask Chisato. B: Ask Mika.
A: Ask Chisato. [X] B: Ask Mika.
YUKARI: "What's going on? What should we do...?"
CHISATO: "I don't know... But... I don't feel any ill will from her..."
MIKA: "But she's still a ghost!"
CHISATO: "...Yes."
MIKA: "It's probably also the ghost's doing that the school has changed, don't you think?"
MIKA: "On what floor ARE we now?!"
«Why are you running away?»
YUKARI: "AH!!!"
MIKA: "She's here!!"
A: Go up the stairs. B: Go down the stairs. C: Enter a classroom.
A: Go up the stairs. B: Go down the stairs. C: Enter a classroom. [X]
CHISATO: "The whole school building, it's like it has become a completely different place..."
MIKA: "What?"
CHISATO: "I can feel all kinds of emotions whirling around."
CHISATO: "Thoughts and emotions... of many, many people..."
MIKA: "She's here!"
YUKARI: "Hide!"
YUKARI: "Is she gone?"
MIKA: "I think so..."
CHISATO: "No..."
CHISATO: "She's here!"
«Found you!»
CHISATO: "Yukari, quick!"
CHISATO: "Yukari, let's go upstairs!"
MIKA: "Upstairs?! What are you saying! That's a dead end!"
CHISATO: "If we can't go downstairs, then we have to go upstairs!"
CHISATO: "If we just keep running like this, we'll never get out of here!"
A: Go down the stairs. B: Go up the stairs.
A: Go down the stairs. B: Go up the stairs. [X]
YUKARI: "Okay, let's go upstairs..."
YUKARI: "Let's just hope it wasn't the wrong decision..."
MIKA: "Yukari, hurry up!"
YUKARI: "Yes! I know!"
YUKARI: "That way!"
MIKA: "...Now what?"
YUKARI: "We have... nowhere to run..."
«You...»
«...shouldn't be so scared!»
«After all...»
«Soon enough...»
«...you will see much scarier things...»
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«The Rumour That Started It All»
Rumour 1 «The park in which you can take numerous ghost pictures»
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«The Rumour That Started It All» [This was the prologue.]
Rumour 1 «The park in which you can take numerous ghost pictures»