I Want to Be the King of Hell

June 2nd, Nanjiang No. 2 High School in Yunnan Province—three female students played the spirit board game in their classroom at exactly ten o’clock after evening self-study. Student A died on the spot. The other two returned home and died the next day. Before her death, the family of student B received a phone call from their daughter. She claimed, “There’s someone at home…I don’t know who. The door hasn’t opened, the windows haven’t opened. I checked all the doors and windows. There isn’t a soul here, and yet I can clearly hear breathing behind me.”

Two hours before student C’s death, C’s father received a call. She too said there was someone at home. She was doing homework by the window and felt someone was watching her from outside. Just standing there, silently watching—yet her home was on the sixth floor. Three hours after the call, C died at her desk with a look of abject terror.

Lines of text imprinted themselves on a pair of clear eyes, whose owner possessed an attractive countenance: soft facial contours, a face brimming with youthful vigor, eyebrows thick as swords yet not excessively sharp, ordinary straight student hair with slightly long bangs. He stood about one meter seventy-five tall.

Shielded by the upright book on his desk, he flipped through news on his phone with burning intensity, slender fingers gliding over the screen. He didn’t even lift his head.

July 8th, Paulownia High School, Jiangxi Province, Grade Eleven Class Three—sudden blackout for three minutes. No switch tripped anywhere in the neighborhood; inspections reveale