Otherside Picnic: Volume 9 [Parts 1 to 5] by Iori Miyazawa

Author:Iori Miyazawa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, partial, mystery, sci-fi, available in print, anime, adventure, survival, yuri, creepypasta
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

2

“Take a look,” Kozakura said, beckoning for us to come over. She had a spreadsheet open on the monitor beside the one she was programming on. The cells were filled with countless words and text fragments.

“What do you think this is?” she asked.

“Happened to a friend, test of courage, spirit sense, suspicious fire, fallen warrior, pet shop, park toilet, unfamiliar woman, Buddhist altar, disappearance...” I read out some of the cells. “What is all this? At a glance, it looks like a list of vocabulary that’s likely to come up in ghost stories.”

“Yeah, you’ve got it,” Kozakura replied so nonchalantly that Toriko and I looked at one another.

“Kozakura, are you all right?” asked Toriko. “You used to be so scared of ghost stories you’d have sooner died than read them.”

“Well, yeah. But when they’re broken down to the vocab level like this, they’re no big deal. The fear comes from the way the story is told, after all.”

“I agree with you there, but still...” I said.

“Even if that’s true, you never did anything like this before. Why now, all of a sudden?” Toriko was as confused as I was. Go figure. If a scaredy-cat like Kozakura was starting up something like this out of nowhere, of course our first reaction would be to worry.

Kozakura chuckled. “What’s there to wonder about? I always wanted to do this kind of research.”

“This kind of research...” I echoed.

Oh, right. She’s a cognitive psychologist.

“Call it a change of heart... I kind of got over things. Maybe because of Satsuki’s funeral, or because of taking in Kasumi. I’m not even sure what triggered it myself, but at some point, I found myself able to tackle the Otherside as a subject of study.”

“Is it okay for us to interpret that in a positive way?” I asked.

“What’re you worried about? You think I went crazy or something?”

“Well, if we’re being honest, a little...”

“You dolt. I’m just fine. If anything, I may be thinking clearer than I ever have. I dunno. Maybe ending up super busy looking after Kasumi did me some good? Not having the time to get scared of things that haven’t happened yet may have made all those vague fears that were hanging over me retreat. Not that I really get what’s happened.”

Kozakura sounded totally sane as she said all this. She didn’t have crazy eyes, and she was articulating herself coherently too.

“Okay...” I said. “Well then, what are you studying with this list?”

“I’m still only in the middle of it. And that’s assuming the premise that the other world is using ghost stories as an interface is true to begin with. I thought mapping that interface might be possible?”

“Mapping? If you want a map, we’re already making one.”

We were making a map of the terrain and landmarks of the other world, and we kept on adding to it as we continued our exploration and the places we knew expanded. Just recently, we’d drawn in the lake we found at the bottom of the hill road in front of the Mayoiga.

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