Chapter 32 Chapter VII

One day, something like this happened. That day, the girl who had to come to the bath every day, for some reason, did not show up until nightfall.Just as I was looking at the body I didn't want to see at all, it was getting dark without realizing it.No one will take a bath anymore. According to the usual practice, only maids will come to the bath until around twelve o'clock. In the next hour or two, no one should appear in front of the mirror. I gave up my thoughts and got into the bed that had been made long ago.However, there was a sudden intermittent noise from the opposite room, which had always been inconspicuous, which made it impossible for me to sleep at all.It was a vulgar song with the shamisen accompaniment of the country geisha, the thin voice of the woman and the rough voice of the man, interspersed with the sound of the taiko drum.It seems to be a rare and big scene, and the busy footsteps of the maid running over to feast your ears can be heard continuously in the corridor.

I couldn't sleep, so I decided to get up and take another look in the mirror.Probably because I had a kind of anticipation in my heart, I didn't know if I could see the girl's figure, so I stepped forward to take another look.At first glance, there really was a figure of a woman there, and I don't know when it came.However, I knew it was not the same person with just one glance. The figure in the mirror was very hazy, and only the woman's neck was shown. I really don't know who this person is. Judging from her figure, it should be a young girl. She seemed to have just climbed out of the bath and was wiping her face.

Suddenly, a cold light flashed across the back of the woman. I gasped and looked closely, and saw an object that frightened me shaking behind the woman. There seemed to be a man's hand stretched out from the corner of the mirror. The hand holding only the dagger may have been too excited, the man's hand was trembling all the time.The round body of the woman and the relatively magnified hand due to the distance filled the mirror completely, which looked like the dark tank in the aquarium. For a moment, I doubted that I saw an illusion. In fact, I His nerves were so tense that they were about to break.

I kept staring at the mirror, and the phantom in the mirror never disappeared. Not only did it not disappear, but the short knife with a gloomy cold light was approaching the woman bit by bit. Maybe the man was too excited, and his hand was trembling strangely with.The woman didn't notice this, and continued to wipe her face in a leisurely manner. This is not a dream, much less a hallucination.There is no doubt that a murder is about to happen in the baths, and I must stop it as soon as possible.But what can I do with the image in the mirror?Come on, come on, my heart is almost out of my chest.I wanted to yell out what I saw, but my tongue was completely frozen and I couldn't even make a sound.

Until now, I still can’t forget the complicated and contradictory emotions at that time. In the room diagonally opposite to me, a group of people were singing cheerful slang songs, accompanied by the sound of taiko drums and clapping their hands and feet, shaking my room faintly. Shaking; in the room, I sat in front of the mirror and looked at the hazy and blurred image in the mirror. A strange event was being staged.Bright red viscous liquid dripped from the woman's white vest, and her figure disappeared from the mirror "suddenly". Needless to say, she must have fallen down immediately, but the mirror does not transmit sound, and what remained on the surface of the mirror The man holding the knife seemed to be frozen in the mirror. After a while, he slowly backed away and disappeared from the mirror.It's just that there is a black slash on the back of the man's hand that looks like a scar, which is forever branded in my eyes.