Although a colleague had died, this person did not seem particularly sad. He was chatting and laughing over there, even making light of the situation.
And so it went.
After chatting with his friend for a while, perhaps having just showered or talked too much, he got up to get a cold drink from the mini-fridge in the room and said:
"I'm going to grab a beer. Aside from Ryosuke dying here, there's really no downside. It's very comfortable to be on a business trip here, and they even provide free beer, haha. Plus, I heard that the local schoolgirls only cost 3,000 yen for a session."
His colleague excitedly replied:
"That's so cheap! This is Tokyo, haha. Yes, yes, you're right. The economy hasn't been good lately. The one I was supporting before even told me if I wanted to lower the price, saying the economy is really bad right now and many people are being laid off. She was worried I'd spend too much."
"What, you want to get one too? Alright, when I get back from my trip, I'll introduce you... huh? Is the TV broken?"
As the colleague was speaking, he took a beer from the fridge and turned to go back to the sofa. However, as he turned, he heard a crackling, static-like noise in his ears.
Involuntarily.
He followed the sound and looked at the TV in front of the sofa.
The TV screen, which had previously been showing paid content, was now a mess of static, as if it were broken. Not only was there no picture, but there was no sound either.
Seeing this, the colleague frowned, displeased, and said:
"What's going..."
However, before he could finish his complaint, his voice was cut off the next second.
Just then.
The TV screen flickered back to life, but it was not the previous image. Instead, it showed a landscape scene with the quality of the 1980s: an open space with trees. In the middle of the clearing was a well made of piled stones, its mouth dark and black. Accompanied by the intermittent static from the TV, it gave off an eerie chill.
With a bang.
The beer in the colleague's hand dropped to the floor in fright. Staring at the TV screen, his pupils contracted, and he instinctively shouted:
"Who the hell is playing a prank? Damn it, what's wrong with this hotel, playing such a prank?"
Despite his words, his expression betrayed him. He was not as unafraid as he appeared, for he remembered the deceased colleague. That colleague had been on the phone with him before he died, and before he died, he had told him that the TV was malfunctioning and that a well had appeared...
Immediately after.
The dying colleague had started screaming in terror on the phone, shouting that there was a ghost in the TV, that a ghost had crawled out of the TV, begging for help, and then he had died.
At first, the colleague thought the dead colleague was playing a prank, as it sounded exactly like Sadako from "The Ring." It wasn't until his colleague died that he realized that perhaps his colleague wasn't joking. Now, seeing the TV screen change and being in the same hotel, he couldn't help but feel a chill.
As his mind raced.
The TV screen changed.
As they watched, a pale, ghostly hand suddenly emerged from the dark mouth of the old well. Just like Sadako from "The Ring," a white-clad woman with disheveled hair crawled out of the well. After crawling out, she seemed to teleport, approaching them rapidly. In the blink of an eye, the entire TV screen was filled with the figure of the white-clad woman.
Then...
A terrifying scene unfolded.
The white-clad woman in the TV stretched out her hand, reaching out from the screen. Her head followed, and she was about to crawl out of the television set.
"Ah!!!"
The colleague screamed in terror, all his earlier joviality gone, replaced by a face full of panic.
It's real!
Ryosuke didn't lie to me. He was really killed by a ghost!
The colleague, terrified, slumped to the floor, wanting to flee. But soon, he felt his limbs unresponsive, completely unable to move. He could only watch as Sadako crawled out.
"No, don't come any closer!!"
"Someone help!!"
"Can anyone save me? Is anyone out there? Help!"
As Sadako crawled out bit by bit, half her body already emerging, the colleague let out screams of terror.
Just then.
With a loud bang, everything exploded.
Both the colleague and Sadako jolted and instinctively looked in the direction of the sound, which came from the hotel room door.
Upon looking.
The colleague was overjoyed. Someone was here! He saw the door being opened, and a young man holding a small child stood at the entrance. Seeing this, he cried out without hesitation:
"Save..."
However, before he could utter the words "save me," the young man standing at the door, seeing him and Sadako in the room, covered the child's eyes with both hands and shouted before him:
"Big, big, make me big!!"
As Zhang Wei shouted, a system prompt also sounded in his mind:
[Ding! Sadako... Heh, you startled me. I thought it was a Shikigami, but it's just two kids. Hmm? What's going on? Why do I feel so heavy...]
[Host gains System Points +100]
Sadako felt a strange sensation. Her upper body had become incredibly heavy for some reason, especially her chest, so heavy that she bent over.
Instantly.
Sadako instinctively lowered her head. Through the gaps in her hair that covered her face, her ghostly eyes widened in shock:
[Ding! Sadako... Holy crap, my brea...?!]
[Host gains System Points +120]
"Ah!!!"
Sadako screamed in fright.
And with that scream.
The colleague jumped, nearly wetting himself. He thought Sadako was coming towards him and quickly looked in Sadako's direction, and then... he froze.
Colleague: "????"
As he watched.
Sadako had already crawled out halfway. This should have been a terrifying sight, but the colleague no longer felt any fear. It was because he saw that Sadako's breasts had become enormous. If they were small hills before, they were now Mount Everest. They had gone from A to E, and were even developing towards G and beyond, with peaks visibly rising.
What... what is going on?
Is Sadako like this?
The colleague watched as Sadako, bent over by her own massive chest, gasped for air, struggling to straighten up and continue crawling out. However, as she grew larger, it seemed her other half also grew, and she couldn't get out of the TV frame. She was stuck there, struggling to emerge.
For a moment.
The colleague inexplicably no longer felt afraid. On the contrary, he inexplicably recalled certain movie scenes he had watched before, where the female lead was stuck in a wall or an elevator.
The colleague couldn't help but swallow.
What is going on?
Am I going crazy? Why do I feel like Sadako isn't scary at all anymore, and it's even a bit risqué...
At this moment.
The atmosphere in room 18003 had changed.
Sadako had appeared.
However, she was only halfway out, her upper body stuck in the TV. She was making struggling grunts and sounds, trying to climb out. At one point, she even looked up at Zhang Wei and the colleague, her expression seeming to say, "Can you give me a hand and pull me out? Thanks."
...