NAKU JOSEI'S
OKARUTO VILLAGE

5:15 PM (Osaka Time). After a journey of about fourteen hours, they finally arrived at Osaka-Japan international airport.

They booked a taxi and decided to go rest at a hotel near the airport.

That night, Yuki asks Jack to sleep in one room with her so she can take care of him, but she tells Jack that Jack should sleep on the couch while he is in the bed.

"Huh! Why would I sleep on the couch?" grunts Jack.

"Easy! There's only one mattress, and I don't want to share it with you!" answer Yuki.

Jack moved his foot towards the exit. "Huuft .. Then I'll book my own room."

"Jack!" Jerk Yuki with a sharp look.

"Well ... well .. but give me the blanket," Jack asked; walk towards the Sofa. "Why don't you try to contact your grandmother first before going to her house in the village?" tanyakanya.

"He couldn't be contacted since the day of my parents' accident. Last time we spoke, it was exactly the day my parents' accident happened, but ...," replied Yuki who had stopped for a moment

"... ??? But what?"

Yuki continued, "but I felt that day was not the grandmother I spoke to."

"Speaking to your grandmother but you don't think it's her, what do you mean?" ask Jack again.

"That's why, but I don't think it's him, because that voice ...,"

"What sound..?"

Yuki walked up to Jack and said again, "Jack, listen. If you feel something weird tonight, like hearing someone cry, don't you open your eyes until those sounds disappear, you understand?"

"Hahaha .. What do you mean? what if the one crying was a kitten? that sounds funny, doesn't it?" ledek Jack laughing.

"Stop laughing and listen to me, you idiot! I'm not messing around, and don't mess with me!" yuki Bent.

Jack was silent; raising one eye eyebrow.

"Help me this time, Jack. Please ...," said Yuki.

"what do you mean? That's why I'm here, isn't it?" answer Jack.

"Here .. I'm going to sleep," Yuki threw her blanket at Jack and slammed straight into the bed.

"The fool ... the clown ...," he murmured inwardly.

*****

The next day, they set off for Okaruto village, where the grandmother's house was located.

Late that evening, they arrived at the village. But .... When they entered the village area, there looked very quiet and dark.

"Why don't they turn on the street lights? Is the electricity out here? And also this village ... It's too quiet," Yuki began to wonder in her heart.

It's getting dark. Yuki and Jack continued to walk down the path, and in the middle of the journey, the two met a grandmother with her grandson praying in a small convent lit only by a few red candles.

As she and Jack passed the convent, the grandmother was surprised to see Yuki, and with a frightened look on her face, she said, "you took her! You brought it!"

The grandmother walked backwards, then she quickly closed both her grandson's eyes with her palms, carried him and ran one breath towards the resident settlement while shouting, ' he said,

"He's back! He's back!"

Yuki and Jack were confused at the grandmother's behavior.

"What did the old man do? is he crazy?" jack said, shaking his head.

Jack may look ordinary, but Yuki starts to feel restless because of the grandmother's behavior when he looks at her face with a strange look. Instantly, his body goosebumps and he tightly grasps the parchment around his neck.

"Why? What the hell's going on? Why do I suddenly feel so bad like this ?" inner Yuki.

The two of them continued their journey along the path, until they finally arrived at Grandma's house.

The atmosphere in the area was very dark, and perhaps the electricity was indeed being extinguished.

Yuki tries to open the grandmother's house, but the door is locked.

"Has grandma been sleeping and locked her up from the inside, or is she out ?" thought.

"Yuki-chan ...? Is that you?" someone called his name from the next house.

An old woman walked towards the two of them.

"Yuki Chan's? It's you, you're a big girl, you look so beautiful and mature," she said with a smile.

"sorry, do I know you?" ask Yuki.

"Haah? how could you forget me? I'm Amai's aunt, Rin's mother, your childhood friend. You used to play with Rin-chan in our house" explained the old woman named Amai.

"Aaah .. Yes, Aunt amai. I just remembered you. Forgive me for not recognizing your face, Bi," Yuki said, bowing her head.

"It's okay, we haven't seen each other in sixteen years, and you were a little girl, so it's only natural that you don't remember my face" said Aunt Amai.

"Oh yes, Bi. Is grandma inside? I can't get in because the door is locked" asked Yuki.

Auntie did not answer him immediately and immediately pulled Yuki's hand to walk towards her house next to grandmother's house.

They entered the house of aunt amai, and were seen there grandmother who was asleep on a mattress with a compress cloth on her eel.

"I've been taking care of your grandmother for over a week. He almost died of a heart attack when he heard about izumi, your late mother. I'm really sorry for this, Yuki-chan," said Aunt Amai.

"What's? Wait a minute ..."

"Whatchu mean? Wait a minute, where does Auntie know? I mean, why does grandma know that my mom's dead?" ask Yuki, astonishment.

"Hey? Your own grandmother told me that Izumi and her husband had died in a car accident" Amai's aunt explained.

"Yeah, it's true mom and dad died in a car accident, but I've never told anyone on the mother's side of the family. They don't know about the news yet, even Miyako's aunt doesn't know yet" Yuki stood holding her own seat.

"How come? Who told grandma about this ?"

"What's up, Yuki-chan? Why do you look like that?" ask aunt Amai.

"pardon me for not being able to contact you to tell me how your grandmother is here. I don't have your phone number, not even your relatives in Japan have one" said Aunt Amai.

"It's okay, Bi. I-i understand. The most important thing now is my grandmother's health, I will take her to the hospital tomorrow" Yuki said.

Auntie Amai went to the kitchen and made them warm green tea. Yuki and Aunt Amai sat down while telling a story, while the Japanese-speaking Jack walked out of the house to take a look.

"Oh yeah, Bi. Where's Rin?" Looks like he doesn't live here, does he live in the city? College or work?" ask Yuki.

Aunt Amai only fell silent with a sad face.

"Auntie? What was? Speak."

Aunt Amai came closer and clasped Yuki's hand. "Yuki Chan, do you know, after that incident .. After you left Japan and never came back again for sixteen years, a lot of children disappeared in this village. Either they disappear to where," explained aunt Amai who began to shed tears.

"W-what do you mean? Why did they disappear?" ask Yuki again

Aunt Amai was silent.

"Bi, don't tell Rin either ..." Yuki's face started to look serious and continued. "What is all this Naku Jo-" Yuki's words came to a halt when Amai's aunt quickly covered her mouth using her palm.

"Never say his name here. Please no! don't!" firmly aunt Amai who then said again while crying sobbing. "I'm sorry, I don't mean to make the atmosphere unpleasant, you rest here tonight and return to the city with aunt Nadeshiko tomorrow morning."

After saying that, aunt Amai walked over about to enter her room.

"Wait, Bi. Can I borrow my grandmother's keys? I would love to see things inside the house" Pinta Yuki.

"Alright," replied Aunt Amai, walking to her room, and returning to give Yuki the keys to the house.

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"Wow .. It seemed so dramatic yes dialogue you two, I was so moved," said Jack who was literate because he did not understand Japanese.

"Shut up!" yuki's snarl made Jack speechless.

Finally they both went to enter the grandmother's house to see the situation in the house. Back then, not much had changed. At first glance, Yuki felt a flashback when she was a child; running around inside the house with Rin. It made Yuki feel happy, as well as sad.

Jack sits in the living room, while Yuki lights the lamp and enters the second floor of his grandparents' room.

I don't know what makes Yuki feel calm and comfortable in the room, to make him sleepy and asleep.

*****

THE JREESSSSSS.... GECK..GECK..GECK..GECK..GECK...

The sound of knocking on the door of the room was very loud and the rush of rain that fell, making Yuki wake up, then walk open the door of the room.

"Eh? there is no one ...."

He also walked down the stairs towards the middle room.

Seen from a distance someone who was sitting in a chair turned his body.

"Jack ?"

"Jack, is that you?" Yuki kept walking closer.

"Jack? No, it's not Jack ..." Inner.

Her white hair and thin body looked like a grandmother, Yuki thought inwardly.

"Miss? Can grandma walk? What is Grandma doing here herself?" yuki Tease.

"Miss?" He walked closer and kept getting closer, getting closer, then he held his grandmother's shoulder from behind.

"Mr ...?"

Then the figure turned his body and looked at Yuki.

DEG!

Yuki's heart felt almost dislodged with goosebumps that immediately gnawed at the back of his neck when he saw his grandmother's face looking pale white; eyes that were wide upward; pointed teeth; and; and a mouth that was wide open until both cheeks were torn.

The ghastly figure screamed and shouted at Yuki, "I TOLD YOU NOT TO COME BACK HERE AGAIN ...!!!"

DHUAARR'S! CRMRN ...

the thunderous sound of lightning and the torrential rain made Yuki aghast and woke back from her sleep.

Hosh.hosh..

His breathing was breathless and his face was sweating even though the temperature was very cold.

"the dream? Damnit damnit! Why is it always like this? first in the hospital, now here !" he murmured in the heart.

Yuki tries to reach for the lantern and gets off the mattress towards the living room to look for Jack.

Arriving there, it looks like someone is standing outside the house, precisely in front of the door.

"It's so dark, I can't see it clearly."

"Jack, tell me you're standing there!" exclaim Yuki.

Then it sounded again ...

GECK..GECK..GECK..GECK.

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