S T A G E D
How to Reach Another World in an Elevator
【Things you need】
・A building with ten stories or more
【Procedure】
1. Get in the elevator (you must go in alone)
2. While in the elevator, go to the floors in the following order: 4th floor → 2nd floor → 6th floor → 2nd floor → 10th floor. (If someone else gets in while you are doing it, you can not complete the ritual)
3. When you arrive at the 10th floor, press the 5th floor button without getting out.
4. When you arrive at the 5th floor, a young woman will get in and join you in the elevator. Do not speak to her
5. After hte woman gets in, press the 1st floor button.
6. After you press the 1st floor button, the elevator will take you up to the 10th floor instead of taking you down to the 1st floor. (If you press the other floors' buttons at this point, you will fail to complete the ritual, but this is also your last chance to quit it)
7. When your elevator has gone past the 9th floor, you can take it as a sign that your ritual is now complete.
There is only one way of checking if you have been successful at the ritual or not;
The world you have arrived should only have one person - namely you - in it.
I don't know what happens after you arrive here.
Some say it'll be harder to get back, as if the elevator is slowly moving away from you, as you walk towards it. Once you get out, you will be prone to accidents.
But I can tell you this much; the woman who gets into the elevator on th 5th floor is not a human being.
Here is one man's experience of the ritual:
I tried it!!
The company I work for has a ten story building so it was convenient.
It was a holiday and nobody was around too.
So I went 4→2→6.
The 6th floor is where I work and I could see my empty office from the elevator.
Then I went 2→10. Nobody was getting in. It was a holiday, after all.
Then I arrived ont he 5th floor, the door opened, and I saw someone standing there!
It wa a woman too!
I was startled and let out a little gasp!
But it was just my senior colleague, Ms. Takemoto (pseudonym). She is a woman, about thirty or so.
She was laughing at my reaction.
"You are working overtime too, Ms. Takemoto?" I said, and let her in.
I was going to press the 1st floor button, but I thought it would be weird for a person to come to the building the first thing in the morning and immediately leave, and anyway the ritual was already over, so I gave up and pressed the 6th floor button.
(When I come to think of it now, it must have appeared weird too for a person to come down in the elevator and go up again withotu getting out)
But then Ms. Takemoto pressed the 10th floor after me which made me jump a little.
Well, I think she works on the 10th floor.
I thought maybe something might still happen if I ventured to go up to the 10th floor, but if I had gone up there with Ms. Takemoto without reason, she certainly would have taken me for a weirdo, so with much regret I got out at the 6th floor.
As I was getting out, I thought I heard someone click her tongue behind me.
I spun around but the elevator door had already closed and I wasn't surei f it was Ms. Takemoto who made that sound.
Maybe I just imagined it.
So nothing happened to me after all.
But I wonder what Ms. Takemoto was doing on the 5th floor at that time of day.