Unknown World: My Sister's Insanity

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Unknown World
My sister lost her sanity.
A week ago, she started to tell me that she sees a lot of frightening people everywhere she goes. I thought she was confused her real life with the stories she found. Because she commenced to read true crimes around that time. However, last night I finally understood that she was really seeing those scary figures.
The sky was covered with cloud and though it was around 5 pm. It seemed like it was already 8 pm. I was on the way home and I was about to go into the street that connected to my house. Before I turned left, I saw someone walking down the street from the other side. I paid an attention to that person and it was my sister. She probably went out with her friends as usual. I waved at her, but

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