Epi.3-3: The One Who Got Seen

One day, a voice rang out through the entrance hall of the abandoned house.

“Sayuri-chaaan! Shinobu-chaaan! Are you heeere?”

The voice echoed brightly, sounding cheerful in a way—yet it belonged to the woman who had once tried to take her life here.
The voice was Misaki’s. A few days earlier, she had attempted suicide in this abandoned house, only to be stopped by Sayuri and Shinobu.

After a short while, a reply came from the second floor.

“We’re heeere!”

It was Sayuri’s voice.
She leaned out from the hallway, spotted Misaki, and her face lit up instantly.

“Ah! Misaki-san!”

Shouting that, she put a foot on the railing and, without hesitation, vaulted over it.

“W–wait—!?”

Misaki screamed reflexively, but Sayuri floated through the air and landed softly right in front of her.

“Heheh, Don’t worry, don’t worry. I’m a floating ghost.”
She was grinning carelessly as she said it.

“Please stop doing that, seriously… You’re going to scare me…”

From behind her, Shinobu came running down the stairs and, catching her breath, offered a greeting.
“Welcome, Misaki-san.”
“I have something I want to show you today.”
Saying that, Misaki pulled a tablet out of her bag.

The two of them leaned in close to the glowing, board-like device, fascinated.
“What is that? I’ve never seen anything like it…”
Following her, Shinobu asked in the same puzzled way,
“I haven’t either. What could it be…?”

“I see, you don’t know about videos yet.”
Misaki smiled and gently motioned for them to step back a little.

“This machine records whatever it’s seeing. Try moving a bit or making a sound. Yes, just around there.”

Sayuri and Shinobu stood side by side, looking puzzled as they moved around and waved their hands.

When the recording was finished, Misaki beckoned the two of them over.
Tilting the tablet, she started playback while showing them the screen.

“Ah—this! I’ve seen this in a big town! The thing that moves on a screen!”
“Wow… amazing… It feels so strange… even though I’m right here…”

Seeing a video where they themselves appeared for the first time, the two of them widened their eyes.

“And the one I want to show you today is this.”

What Misaki played next was a short video.
In the clip, Sayuri appeared with a soft flutter right in front of the camera.

‘Heeey! I’m right heeere! Don’t ignore meee!’

As her calling voice played, comments began to flow across the screen.

> Trying so hard—cute
> This girl’s seriously pretty
> Is she really a ghost?

“…Ah—th-that’s me! W-wait, cute…? Hehe…”
Sayuri’s ears turned bright red, and she played with the ends of her hair in embarrassment.

But at that moment, the Sayuri on the screen suddenly vanished.

“Eh…?”

In the next instant, Sayuri drifted down softly from above.
And then her skirt flipped up—her white panties shown clearly in slow motion.
“Wha—!? Misaki-san!? Why is it playing so slowly!? I wasn’t coming down this slowly at all!
And why is it playing it twice!?”

“Yeah, editing lets you tweak things like that however you want,”
Misaki said, averting her eyes.

The comment section was in an uproar.

> I saw it…!
> Saving this
> Panty-flash ghost, unleashed
> Is that a gymnast’s landing?
> She looks downright proud showing her panties

Sayuri’s face grew redder and redder.

“Eh…? This… all kinds of people are seeing this…? Really…? That can’t be true… right…?”
With tears welling up, Sayuri looked up at Misaki.

“I don’t want this… it’s embarrassing… something like this…!”

“There’s nothing we can do about it anymore. It’ll just keep spreading.”

“…No way… is there really something like that… like a curse…?”
Sayuri murmured in a daze.

“Shinobu, how long are you going to keep watching!?”

Right after shouting that, Sayuri grabbed Shinobu’s face with both hands and forced it firmly against her own body.

“You can’t look anymore! No! Nooo!!”
“…S-Sayuri-chan… i-it hurts…”

Watching them, Misaki let out a quiet chuckle.

“Somehow… you’re completely different from the kind of ghosts I’d imagined.”

Something seemed to flicker at the edge of Misaki’s vision.
She merely looked away and smiled as if nothing had happened.