"Being able to summon a visitor that isn't a Shikigami, you always manage to come up with something new for me—let's talk business. As recorded in the materials, this past week, our people found only 102 survivors. In addition, in the Aokihara Forest... they also found over twenty bodies of unidentified hanging victims. It can be confirmed that they all committed suicide, and their deaths were all within one week."
"You mean...?"
As Kamiyagawa responded, he also pulled out a few photocopied pictures from the file bag.
The images showed hanging corpses. They hung in rows, like pieces of cured meat air-drying in the wind.
This scene was somewhat similar to the haunted hanging rope spirits that Kamiya had exorcised before.
Perhaps, the haunted hanging rope spirits were indeed a manifestation of the collective malevolence from several hanged individuals in the Aokihara Forest.
Also, the photos included a snapshot of a suicide note written on a white paper—