My Iyashikei Game Chapter 20: Courage in Face of Fear

“Chen Chen has always been a shy boy. He normally won’t approach the other children in the building and prefer to be alone. But from who knows when, he suddenly became more extroverted. At the time, I was quite happy at this change. I assumed it was because Chen Chen has finally found a friend whom he could play with. However, as time went by, I slowly noticed something was off. Chen Chen would only go out to play after 7 pm and he’d return all dirty and with wounds on his arms and cheeks.

“One time, he stayed out until very late. I got so worried that I asked the building manager’s help to find him. We searched for a long time before we found him inside the neighbourhood’s abandoned water tank. He was curled inside all alone and his body trembled from the cold. We asked him what he was doing and he said he was playing with hide and seek with his friend. When I asked him for the name of his friend, Chen Chen held out for a long time before he was willing to reveal his friend’s name. It was Weep.

“At the time, I was confused. What kind of parents would name their child Weep? But when the building manager heard the name, his expression shifted immediately. He then asked Chen Chen whether this Weep stayed on the 3rd floor. Chen Chen nodded. The building manager then told me something that haunts me until this day. The room with the talismans is not the site of any murder but it is the location for an incident that is much inexplicable and horrible than that.

“When the neighbourhood was first built, there were children going missing every so often. Naturally a search was initiated and they found the missing children’s clothes and toys inside Room 1034 on the 3rd floor. It was then that the rumours of Room 1034 being a child-eating home started to circulate. It was not until everyone worked together to seal up all the windows and doors of Room 1034 that the disappearance stopped. I have no idea how the child by the name of Weep is related to the house, but once the disappearance ceased, so did the appearance of this chi

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