Chapter 18 Section VII

When the moon set sharply to the west, the ox cart stopped. There was a gurgling sound from outside the car. Boya and Qingming got out of the bullock cart.This is the east of the capital—a bridgehead of the Kamogawa River. Looking up at the night sky, the full moon has gradually set in the western mountains.Moving his gaze to the bridge, he saw a figure with a hazy blue light standing at the head of the bridge. Qingming walked towards the figure slowly. It was a woman with a gown on her head, only her lips could be seen—— Qingming said calmly to the woman, "Miss Takako has passed away. It was your hair that suffocated her to death."

Under the gown, the woman's bright red lips were raised left and right, revealing her white teeth. "I'm so happy..." said the woman's smiling lips. "Can you explain why you did this?" Seimei asked. The woman said slowly: "Until four years ago, when Mr. Fujiwara Yasufan was still the governor of Yuanjiang Country, I was his lover. However, four years ago, Mr. Kangfan was transferred back to the capital..." The woman lowered her head and continued calmly: "Master Kang Fan made an oath to me, saying that once he arrives in the capital, he will definitely send someone to pick me up. However, one year has passed, two years have passed, and three years have passed. Still didn’t come to pick me up. Before I knew it, four years passed. Then, I heard that Mr. Kang Fan had a new lover, and I often visited his wife there..."

As the woman talked, she didn't know whether it was out of anger or sadness, she gradually gritted her teeth, and there was a clicking sound between her teeth. "Kang Fan, you heartless bastard!" The fangs protruded from between the woman's lips, and they returned to their original shape after a while. "In order to confirm Mr. Kang Fan's wishes, I left the village alone in the spring of the fourth year. Unfortunately, I fell ill on the way and my meager travel expenses were used up. Ten days ago, I sent a letter to Kang Fan from the inn. Master Fan." Kang Fan is here.

For some reason, I came alone to meet my old lover without any entourage. Seeing his old lover, Kang Fan held his old lover's hands and burst into tears: "Poor man!" Hearing that her ex-lover invited her to the capital together, the woman seemed to be recovering from her illness, she propped herself up and staggered behind the man.It was already night when we finally arrived at Kamogawa. Probably because she couldn't wait to rush back to the capital—the woman thought that the man was rushing all night because he wanted to return home.Unexpectedly, when the woman crossed Kamogawa first, Kang Fan suddenly drew his knife and slashed at the woman's back.

The woman who was wounded by the knife realized Kang Fan's sincerity at this time. It turned out that Kang Fan wanted to kill himself, who had become a burden, while there was no one around, and then threw the body into Kamogawa and escaped... That's why Kang Fan came to pick him up alone. And it was calculated from the beginning that it will probably arrive at Kamogawa at night... Kang Fan thought the woman would die with the first stab, so he leaned his back on the bridge, panting to adjust his breathing. At this time, the woman who woke up suddenly snatched the long knife from Kang Fan's hand, stabbed Kang Fan's chest, and killed the man.

Although Kang Fan died, the woman was also seriously injured and probably would not live long. "So, I thought of turning into a living being to kill Kang Fan's new love who is still alive..." The woman's teeth clicked again. "I cut off Kang Fan's penis, and then gouged out his eyes, and I...you see, I scalped..." The woman threw down the hood on her head. "Woo!" It was Boya who called out. The woman's scalp above the eyebrows was stripped off, revealing a bloody skull. "The black hair condensed my desperate thoughts, and finally killed that woman for me!"

The woman hung her eyes to the sky, and her fangs protruded from her mouth. "Ah... ah..." The woman looks up to the sky and howls at the moon. "I'm so happy..." "It's so sad..." "I'm so happy..." "It's so sad..." As the woman spoke, her figure gradually thinned out.thinner and thinner. "So happy...so sad..." Disappeared. After a long silence, Qingming finally murmured: "The matter is settled, Boya..." "Ok……" Boya nodded in response, but still stared at the bridge where the woman disappeared, his style of writing remained motionless.

The chilly autumn wind blew on the two of them. In the future, the riverbed under the bridge on Kamogawa was searched, and the body of Fujiwara Yasunori and a scalpless female body were fished out from the bottom of the river.