Chapter 10 Chapter 8 Theft

That night, I took a plane to Takayama City in Gifu. When I got there, it was already past two o'clock in the morning. I randomly found a hotel near the airport to stay, fell asleep on the bed and fell asleep tiredly. I don't know how long I slept, but I heard someone knocking on the door in a daze. "Who is it?" I asked vaguely as I reluctantly got up from the bed. I opened the door, but I was surprised to find that there was no one outside the door. The long and empty corridor lay before my eyes. Under the dim light, the bright red carpet looked particularly dazzling.

"Could it be that I was dreaming and confused?" I scratched my head and was about to go back to bed and have a good sleep again, but the moment I turned around, I was stunned. The hollow knock on the door sounded again, and a cold feeling immediately filled the whole body. "Bang bang..." The knocking on the door continued, with a rhythm that was dull and frightening. I bit it, and pulled open the door. Outside the door, there was still nothing. What exactly is going on?Is someone playing a prank? Impossible, who would be so boring?What's more, even if he wanted to play a prank, that kid must have run too fast!

From the front of my room door to the corner where I can hide, there is a total of more than 30 meters, and from the last knock on the door to the rapid opening of the door, there is only an interval of three seconds. Calculated in this way, that guy can run 100 meters in less than ten seconds, which is almost close to the world record. Besides, I didn't hear any noise at all, let alone the noise made when running at high speed. Could it be that he fell asleep this time, mixing dreams and reality together? Forget it, go to the monitoring room of the hotel tomorrow and call up the video of this time period and it will be clear.

I closed the door and walked towards the bed, suddenly I felt a cool breeze on my face. When did the window open? The weak breeze kept blowing the half-drawn curtains, bringing a weird smell. What happened tonight? I clearly remember that the windows were closed and locked before going to bed, why are they half open now?My memory is absolutely not confused, even if I remember wrongly, I wouldn't be so stupid as to leave the window open while the air conditioner is turned on! I suddenly remembered the situation when I first arrived in Nara, and that night was as weird as today.Could it be that the fox thought it would be great to marry his daughter in front of me, so he followed me to Gifu and married again by the way?

I subconsciously stretched my head out to look at the sky. The air was dry and fine, and it wasn't raining.Suddenly felt something, I immediately turned on the light, and then looked towards the bed. Fortunately, the backpack was still lying quietly next to the pillow. I went over and picked up the backpack, and at that moment, my whole body froze, and then, like crazy, I dumped everything in the bag on the bed. No!Sure enough, there is no more! After confirming countless times, I finally slumped to the floor. The two black boxes in the bag were missing. Who stole them and when?I tidied up my confused thoughts, and then gave me a hard hit on the head.Damn it, I was stupid enough to fall for that kind of idiot trick.

I'm afraid some people have been eyeing me for a long time, but I'm so stupid that I didn't notice it. The group of people first knocked on the door to attract my attention. Crawled in and took the black box from my backpack. If my guess is right, then who are they? This is the fifteenth floor, and trying to get into the guest room from the window is almost tantamount to risking their lives. Why did they spend so much energy stealing those two black boxes?Also, what purpose do they have? Angrily, I slammed my fist on the floor hard, then jumped wildly while holding my aching hand, and yelled loudly, with almost chaotic eyes, I suddenly glanced at something falling under the window sill, I held back the pain and lifted it picked up.

It was an oval talisman paper with strange animal patterns and some weird characters drawn on it. I squinted my eyes, and my expression suddenly became solemn. I am not unfamiliar with this kind of talisman paper. I found the same one in the place where I found the second black box. It was the symbol of the imperial envoy. The so-called Yushiqian, they are a kind of human beings who can borrow the power of the fox. Speaking of the history of Yushiqian, there are probably two folk theories. One is that they are the descendants of the fox demon Yuzaoqian, who can borrow the power of the demon fox.

The second theory says that they are priestesses dedicated to Inari, also known as fan gangshi or fox managers. They can raise monsters the size of mice in a small tube and drive them to do anything. I didn't care which theory was right, I just wanted to get back the stolen black box, and I was completely sleepy, so I broke into the surveillance room of the hotel and asked the guard to show me the video just now. Ojisang, who was already in his sixties, of course refused, and said impatiently that it was not in compliance with the regulations. I suddenly became furious and shouted: "My things were stolen in the guest room, how should I settle the debt?"

The guard said confidently: "We have reminded passengers to leave their valuables in the locker." I snorted coldly and waved my hand at him: "I'm too lazy to tell you, tell your manager to come over immediately." "Sir, you are simply making trouble for no reason!" Nao Jisang was also a little angry. I picked up the phone, looked him in the eyes, and said, "Do you want me to call you?" The guard gave me a hard look, then took the phone and yelled a few words inside.After a while, the manager pushed the door open and walked in out of breath. "Sir, what's your dissatisfaction with our service?" He asked formulaically, also impatiently.

"Is this restaurant under the business scope of Takahashi's family?" I asked slowly. "That's right." The manager nodded. I smiled, took a card out of my pocket and handed it to him. That card was stuffed into me by Yumei before I left, saying that if you need money, you can just go to a subsidiary of the Takahashi Group, and they will immediately agree to any of my needs. Sure enough, the manager who was still arrogant just now immediately became sweaty. He took out a handkerchief from his pocket, wiped his cold sweat, read the card again and again, and finally bowed deeply to me. Shouted loudly: "I don't know that the executive president will come to inspect, please forgive me for any inappropriateness!"

The guard who stood aside and thought he could see a good show was immediately dumbfounded. I pointed at him deliberately and said, "This guard seems to have a bad attitude. How do you treat customers?" Annoyed, the manager shouted at the guard: "Kido Ichiro, you will not come from tomorrow. You are fired!" That Ojisan almost cried out. I watched the play with great interest, feeling that I was almost out of breath, took a deep breath, and said calmly: "Forget it, I won't care about it this time. You are Ichiro Kito, right now you can adjust Show the surveillance video just now, I live in Room 17 on the 15th floor." After watching the video, I was greeted by the hotel manager and returned to the room. I lay down on the bed, and I began to recall slowly. According to the records, there has been no abnormality in front of my room door. From the time I checked in to the time I heard the knock and opened the door suddenly, no one stayed in front of the door of Room 17. Perhaps, that theft was really not man-made, could it be that the imperial envoy drove the fox to do it? If this is the case, it would explain why the locked window was opened from the inside, and then the contents of my backpack were stolen quietly. It is said that fox demons are invisible to the naked eye, and they have the ability to see through any gaps, no matter how small, they can squeeze in. Although humans have not been able to confirm their existence so far, it is an indisputable fact that there are indeed mikos of Iizunashi in the northeast of Japan. But why did the envoy stare at me?What connection do they have with the black box?And most importantly, how did they know that the black box was on me? There are only two people in Japan who know this secret, one is me and the other is Yumi. Could it be that the United States informed the secret? I shook my head vigorously, trying to shake off all the doubts in my mind, but I still couldn't do it after all.It seems that I really need to visit the Inari Shrine near Takayama City tomorrow... Inari is a shrine dedicated to foxes. Japanese belief in foxes can probably be traced back to the Heian period or earlier. Many people believe that foxes are the gods in charge of agriculture and commerce. Perhaps this belief comes from spreading in Japan There are about 80,000 Inari shrines in various places. Early in the morning, I called the manager and asked about the nearby Inari Shrine. The manager of the hotel immediately sent someone to investigate. Not long after, they took a lot of information, and I went through it a little bit. There are about nineteen Inari shrines in Takayama City, but they are all small in scale, and most of them have only one urn.However, in the forest to the east, there is a large shrine relic, and I immediately became very interested in that relic. Just imagine, if I were a witch who came all the way from the Northeast, and I had some ulterior motives, although I could stay in a hotel, or even a restaurant where the target is located, I would still be suspected by others. possibility. If it is used as a meeting point, of course, it will choose a place that is very hidden and has few people. In this case, the ruins will be of great use value! I thought about it for a while, and after confirming that there was a great possibility, I went to the supermarket to buy a lot of things and stuffed them into my backpack, then walked towards the ruins. That place is the only clue I can find now. If I guess wrong, I may be farther and farther away from the stolen black box, and I may never find it again. At that time, I can only resign myself to take Zhang Wenyi and run away. Go to a city that no one knows, and then the two of them will hug each other, curl up on the bed and wait for the curse to happen, to see who will be decapitated first by the succubus. The day passed, and the night slowly came. Darkness enveloped the entire ruins, and the huge fox sculpture stood upright in the dilapidated hall, looking particularly strange. I hid in the dark, rubbed my already numb legs, I have been lying in ambush here for a whole day, and I have wiped out more than half of the snacks I brought, unexpectedly, I didn't even expect a ghost to come. I took a deep breath, took a swig of the drink, and raised my head to look at the sky through the collapsed roof. This is indeed a suburb, the sky is not polluted, and the beauty is in a mess. The bright moon hangs high in the sky, and the halo of the moon is also obvious, reflecting a chaotic and chaotic color.There are very few stars, only a few three-level stars shining dimly. really beatiful!Especially in my eyes who don't know when I will die suddenly, many ordinary things suddenly make people feel nostalgic. Ha, I never thought that a rational and world-weary person like me would actually be afraid of death... Just when my mind was intoxicated in the outer space without noise, a sound of footsteps came from far to near.My heart suddenly rose to my throat, my mind was clear, and my ears were alert to any sound. The man seemed to be hesitating. He kept wandering around the entrance of the ruins of the shrine, and then he yelled loudly beyond my expectation: "Yebuyu, I know you are inside, come out quickly, someone wants to see you!" It was a very sweet girl, with a cold voice in that kind of tenderness, I seem to have heard it somewhere. Just when I wanted to answer subconsciously, a signal suddenly came out in my mind, and I immediately swallowed the voice that rushed into my throat. It's so dangerous, I almost scared the snake! The girl waited for a while, and seeing that no one agreed with her, she yelled again: "Silence at night, come out quickly, you bastard. Otherwise, I will throw your black box into the sea." Is there a mistake, she even knows about the black box? !Could it be that this little girl is Yu Shiqian from the Northeast, that is, she stole my black box? I couldn't bear it anymore, and ran out of my hiding place. Under the bright moonlight, I saw a girl with an excellent figure standing not far away. Seeing me panicked and embarrassed, she couldn't help showing a slight smile. When my eyes touched her indescribably beautiful face, I was immediately stunned in amazement. I just felt stiff all over and my mind went blank. That girl is no stranger to me, with that kind of smile, that coquettish expression, and slightly pursed plump lips... Isn't that the girl I picked up when the fox married her? "Why, are you surprised to see me?" The girl stared at me with bright eyes, and took a few steps forward, as if she wanted to let me see her more clearly. I managed to straighten out my confused thoughts, and asked in a deep voice, "You stole my black box?" "You can say that." The girl nodded without fear. "Huh, I didn't expect you to be the imperial envoy. No wonder the leg that was supposed to be injured recovered so quickly. You borrowed the power of the fox demon! So, did the fox marry a daughter? What the hell?" I felt like a fool, being played around by a woman. "You seem to have misunderstood something." The girl got closer and closer, and finally stopped just one nose tip away from me.She said softly, "Someone wants to see you." I shook my head and said angrily: "I won't go, I won't be fooled by you again!" "Really?" She made a very regretful expression, "It seems that you are not interested in the secrets of the black box at all. Well, just pretend that I have never been here. Goodbye!" "Do you know the secret of the black box?!" I suddenly became excited, grabbed her arm, and asked eagerly: "If you really know, please tell me quickly!" The girl glanced at me and said softly: "I don't know, but the person who wants to see you knows it very well, because the black box was made by his companion!" There was a hut not far from the ruins, and the girl nodded slightly, beckoning me to go in.I hesitated for a moment, and finally opened the door. There is an old man about 30 years old sitting opposite, don't think I used the wrong word, that is indeed a young old man, at least that's how I felt when I first saw him. The man gently stroked the two black boxes placed on his legs with both hands. When he saw me, he just nodded and said, "You're here. Very good, faster than I thought." "Who are you?" I sat on the chair in front of him unceremoniously and asked in a deep voice. "Everyone calls me Junki Ito, a lesser-known novelist." "Junki Ito? Such a familiar name!" I frowned, and suddenly shouted: "I remember, you once wrote a very famous horror novel. That novel seems to be adapted from the true story of Dr. Fukurae Yukichi, and then supplemented with brilliant fantasy and suspense , and was eventually adapted into a movie.” "Hmph, is it really my fantasy in that novel?" Junki Ito smiled wryly, his eyes staring blankly at the ceiling began to become hollow. "I have read your novel." I smiled, and a thought suddenly crossed my mind, and I felt my whole body stiffen. I suppressed my beating heart, and said in a hoarse voice as calm as possible: "However, I am more interested in the "Chronicle of Superpowers" you wrote in 1952. That book is very interesting, you said yes No? Mr. Takayoshi Kichi?" Ito Junki's hands that were about to take tea suddenly stopped, and his whole body was motionless. After an unknown amount of time, he laughed louder and louder, and finally nearly fell to the ground. "How did you guess that Junki Ito was me?" Takayoshi looked up at me. "It's just a whim plus intuition." I honestly replied: "I feel that Taka Nagao Yoshi and Ito Junki have a few vague similarities. "First, Junki Ito's research on superpowers can definitely be regarded as a master level, which can be seen from his novels. And Yoshiko Takayoshi has a fanatical desire to pursue superpowers. Just do a little research. His life is known. "Secondly, Junki Ito was born in 1953, which coincided with the time of Takayoshi's death, and the most important point is about Dr. Fukurai Yukichi. In "Annual History", or in Junki Ito's novels, whenever Dr. Fukui is mentioned, he will involuntarily use honorifics, revealing a kind of adoring emotion. I felt very strange when I read your novels before. I didn’t expect this information to be a very useful clue.” I paused and said again: "Of course everything is purely my guess, so I took a gamble. I didn't expect you to admit it so readily." "Haha, you are such an interesting person." Takayoshi laughed again, "How much do you really know about the black box?" "It's not too much." I thought for a while, "I know that there is not only one black box, and each one has different magical powers and uses them in different ways. I have investigated for a long time, and I only know that those black boxes are similar to you, Your mentor, Fulai Youji, is also related to two Chinese scholars, Lu Ping and Li Shuren." I licked my lips, "You all seem to have obtained the ability of immortality from the black box. Later, for some reason, Lu Ping and Li Shuren each held a black box and returned to their hometown, and then did some things that I couldn't understand I also know that the box was made in 1938, and that it was made somewhere in Usa, Takayama. Although I don't know exactly how you made this horrible thing, But I can be sure that it must have something to do with Dr. Fukureyuki's third experiment." Taka Yong Okichi was a little surprised, "I didn't expect you to know so much!" I smiled slightly: "That's really not much. Mr. Gao Yong faked his death in 1953, right? You used suicide as a cover, and then turned back into a child at the age of seventy-three, hiding and living with another identity. Li Shuren and Lu Ping are almost the same as you, maybe Fulai Youji also lives somewhere in this world." "No." Gao Yongweiji looked a little sad, "The doctor did pass away in 1952. He didn't want to accept that ability, saying that it violated the laws of nature. In fact, I know that the doctor is not willing to accept it." That kind of pain, eternal existence is a heavy fate, after accepting that ability, I also bear the strong resentment and fetters of those girls at the same time!" "Resentment? Fetters?" I was so confused, I couldn't understand what he meant. Takayoshi sighed, staring blankly at the ceiling, and began to talk in a low voice: "We are all born in a weird era. On the surface, that era reveals the pursuit of new things, but in fact the pursuit is the same thing. , it's another thing to get the recalcitrant intellectuals to accept it... "Do you know the phenomenon of ghosting? There are often photos of unnecessary people or things that should not appear in some normal photos. Some people collectively call them ghost photos. In fact, that is a typical phenomenon of ghosting. "Early in the early days of photography, in the 1860s and 1870s, when photography entered public life, the phenomenon was hyped up by the media and interested many people, my mentor Dr. Fowler being one of the most distinguished of his time. "He first put forward the theory that some people with special abilities can print some characters on the negative film, and even only sensitize the middle one of the three-layer film, while the upper and lower two are not affected in any way. In 1911 In 2010, the doctor found a 40-year-old wife of a judge, Ikuko Nagao, in Marugame City, Shikoku, Japan. Under his auspices, a series of experiments on imagery were carried out." I nodded: "I know that Dr. Fukurai Yukichi published the research results in the book "Perspective and Thinking Photography" written in 1913. And after the death of Nagao Ikuko, in order to prove his theory, he again In 1931, I found Hikaru Mita, a psychic in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, and asked him to use the negatives on the second floor of Dr. Fukui's house 40 kilometers away to successfully create two photos of the far side of the moon." "That's right, the doctor really took great pains to study supernatural abilities." Takayoshi sighed again. "But is there any relationship between the image phenomenon and the black box?" I asked suspiciously. Takayoshi nodded, then shook his head slightly, "The research on the black box really starts with the doctor's third experiment, in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes, everything in that experiment was conducted in secret. "The subject is a person with special abilities named Takahashi Sadako. She has the superpower to display words on white paper with her thoughts. In that experiment, Dr. Fulai, Lu Ping, Li Shuren and I, because of the research Due to the difference in direction, they were divided into two factions. "Lu Ping and Li Shuren believe that people with supernatural powers have their spiritual power different from ordinary people, so strong that they can radiate out and attach themselves to something at will according to that person's will. According to this theory, if that power goes further If it is expanded, then it should be possible to change the arrangement of molecules, and even achieve the situation of changing materials. "They think that using ideas to display text on white paper, or develop it on film, is fundamentally a process of changing molecular structure and energy transmission. Further research should be done on how to expand this ability! The doctor and I think they are crazy Yes. Although the theory they put forward has some truth, but their behavior is too crazy, so the four of us broke up, and each carried out our own research in Gaoshan City..." Night, heavy night. A crescent moon hangs high in the sky, under the dim silver light, two dark shadows walked into the cemetery. "Are you really going to do this?" Li Shuren looked around and shivered involuntarily. Lu Ping quickly took out a shovel from the sack, handed it to him, and then dug hard on a grave. Li Shuren grabbed his shovel and said in a low voice, "Are we really doing this right? This is simply a blasphemy against the dead." Lu Ping pushed him hard, "Don't be a mother-in-law, look like a man, dig!" "But Qianhezi was pitiful enough before she was alive, and we still insult her corpse after death..." Shuren Li hesitated. Lu Ping snorted coldly: "How did you go to university in England before? When a person dies, there is only a set of bones left. Instead of letting it continue to rot, let us put it to greater use!" "but……" "Enough!" Lu Ping glared at Li Shuren fiercely, "You have brain cancer, right? Are you willing to wait to die like this? Or wait until we work hard to complete that theory? That is a great scientific discovery, as long as we put the theory Published, it will definitely cause an uproar in the academic world, and even cause a revolution. Our name will definitely be recorded in the annals of history!" "Are you sure that expanding that special ability by a hundred times can really cure my brain cancer, and even make me immortal?" Shuren Li was visibly shaken. Lu Ping laughed mysteriously, "You and I discovered that theory together. If you make the container well, it will definitely succeed. Don't you even believe in yourself?" "Of course I do! We're going to make it, aren't we?" "Of course." Lu Ping patted him on the shoulder, "Dig faster, we have to go to Shikoku tomorrow morning to dig up Yuzi's body..." "The doctor's third experiment lasted for nearly two years. And in 1911, Lu Ping and Li Shuren did a terrible thing. They secretly took the bodies of Mifune Chizuko and Nagao Ikuko We dug it out and conducted various researches." Takanagao Yoshi's voice became agitated. "By 1912, the two of them initially produced an instrument. That instrument could emit ten times the energy of superpowers, which was the prototype of the black box. But they seemed not satisfied, because the effect It's not too obvious, although it can slowly change people's physical fitness, but it's too slow to be used in scientific demonstrations, so they started spying on Sadako. Hey, boy, do you want to know what's inside the black box? "Taka Yong Okichi held the black boxes in his hands, stared at them, and asked. I nodded immediately. In fact, I wanted to know the structure of this thing a long time ago. Unfortunately, X-ray projections cannot form images, and I dare not open them because of their weird power. I am afraid that something will happen and I will die. Qiaoqiao is still good, but I am afraid that if I become a guy like Li Shuren, I will never die, and then I will live in pain in the world, and I have to change places constantly, lest people will find out that I am an immortal monster. In that way, it would be strange if I didn't try to commit suicide all day long. Gao Yongweiji paused for a long time, and then said word by word: "It's the bones of Mifune Chizuko and Nagao Ikuko! To be precise, it's their skulls! Those two bastards smashed their heads to pieces , and put it into the black box!" "what!" I jumped up from the chair suddenly, only to feel a chill creeping up the back of my head. "No, it's impossible to have such a result! Why can it only be increased to ten times?" Lu Ping ruthlessly swept all the information on the table on the ground. Li Shuren sighed softly, knelt down and slowly picked it up: "Ah Ping, actually ten times is enough, and the cancer cells in my body have been effectively controlled. This alone is enough to shock the academic world." !" Lu Ping grabbed his hair vigorously, "Not enough, ten times is not enough at all! The result I want is at least a hundred times, no, even a thousand times, and then I can achieve my goal." "Ah Ping, you are too persistent, why bother, I'm afraid you will never be able to realize that wish..." Shuren Li shook his head. Lu Ping slammed the table down, grabbed his collar and yelled loudly: "As long as I am alive, I must succeed! Ten times? According to our day and night research, it is obvious that only the brain can send out that special Energy waves, and even after death, that energy will not dissipate, it will always be attached to the head, but why can it only increase ten times? Is it because their special abilities are not strong enough..." Lu Ping sat on the ground in a state of madness. He thought for a while, then suddenly smiled, "The old man Fukurai Yukina seems to have said that Takahashi Sadako's special ability is the strongest he has ever seen, right?" "Ah Ping, don't you want to..." Shuren Li looked at him in horror. Lu Ping touched his neck lightly, and said nervously, "Her head! I really want to open her head and examine it carefully." Shuren Li suddenly felt a chill rushing up his spine. He grabbed Lu Ping's shoulders and said loudly, "Be sober. That's murder!" "Is this the first time we have killed someone?" Lu Ping pushed his hand away and smiled darkly, "Don't worry, just use the old method, no one will know about it, and if someone died in the experiment, that old bastard Fulaiyouji would not say anything, that's what he is Kind of people. As long as it's night, we sneak in quietly, hey, everything will be fine..." "At the beginning of 1913, when the doctor was busy integrating a large amount of experimental data, and contacting the publisher, preparing to publish her research report called "Perspective and Thinking Photography", one day, Sadako suddenly felt very disturbed. "From a long time ago, the doctor and I discovered that she has a strong sixth sense, no, it can even be called the ability to predict. At that time, she seemed very panicked and kept asking me to take her to hide, but He couldn't tell the reason, but he just emphasized that he was in danger and might be killed." Takayoshi recalled, and finally smiled wryly. "To be honest, two years of getting along has made me develop feelings for this beautiful and intelligent girl. I fell in love with her. I couldn't help Sadako's request and her pitiful appearance. I finally made the second major decision in my life. I betrayed my mentor, Dr. Fulai. Because I didn't know what kind of danger would be, when I took Sadako away, I also took away all the research materials about her in order to destroy the evidence of her existence. The information was incomplete, so the report could only be published hastily, without attracting any attention in the academic circle, and the doctor who was so angry got a hidden disease from then on, and finally died of depression.” He took a breath and said with a painful face: "But the most hateful thing is that I have never regretted it! Even when I participated in the doctor's farewell ceremony, I thought that even if I came again, I would take it away without hesitation. Sadako!" "You didn't do anything wrong." I was silent for a while, and asked, "And then? What happened to Sadako Takahashi?" "She became my wife." Takayoshi said slowly: "We lived together in a small fishing village in Yokozuna, and lived a happy life for a long time. I thought this life would last forever, but I was wrong, big mistake! Beginning in 1936, I found that my body was often in severe pain. After going to the hospital for examination, I found out that I had stomach cancer. Suddenly, the sky seemed to fall. It was not until that moment that I realized that I was so afraid Die, I'm terribly afraid!" He grabbed his chest and smiled slightly: "Sadako looked very optimistic and lively in front of me, and kept making me happy, and I was really laughing, laughing happily, but we both loved each other. Knowing it well, it was just a play to prevent the other party from worrying. "When I was alone, Sadako's slender eyebrows almost frowned. I knew that my beautiful wife was more sad than me. Sadako once said to me that even if she wants to die, she wants me to live. Be good. Land, live happily... Ha, the irony is, I didn't expect this sentence to become a reality not long after." Gao Yongweiji's face darkened, he covered his face, choked with pain and said: "At the end of 1937, those two bastards, Lu Ping and Li Shuren, found me through some channels. They talked with Sadako for a whole day A few days later, Sadako ran away from home, and never appeared in front of me again... "I started asking people everywhere to find her whereabouts. I didn't dare to leave the house, fearing that she would not find me when she returned home. "At the beginning of 1938, those two guys came to my house again. They said there was a cure for my cancer, and they gave me a black box and a letter. "After they told me how to use it, they left in a hurry. I opened the letter with trembling hands, and it turned out to be Sadako's handwriting. There was only a short line in the whole letter... "Oyoshi, I once promised that no matter what, you will not die before me. I fulfilled my promise, and now it's your turn! You have to live with me. And, Oyoshi , I love you... At that moment, I understood everything!"