I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

As the door of the largest cabinet opened, inside the locker that should have been empty was a thin baby who was not fully clothed and covered in pitch-black blood.

He was crying sharply because of Araki Sousuke's approach and the rapid flow of resentment in his body.

A woman made up of several pieces of stumps and flesh and blood, with only the upper body left, wrapped him tightly like a crib with her abdomen that had been cut open and hollowed out.

She embraced her arms, her body shook slightly, and she put her face against the baby's withered body, as if a mother was comforting a night-crying young son.

She must have been the one who hummed nursery rhymes to comfort the baby.

"This... this is..."

Seeing this bloody and terrifying scene, but somehow full of warmth, the two who came to the locker were slightly taken aback.

"... Gathering Wraiths?"

Kotori Yumaumi made a judgment immediately.

Although it was only in its infancy and its aura was not too strong, these two wraiths really came together in this weird way.

If the two of them hadn't passed by unexpectedly today and continued to increase the number of victims, it might have grown into an even more terrifying gathering of vengeful spirits.

"Wow..."

As the resentment continued to pour into Araki Sosuke's body, the movements of the flesh and blood in the cabinet gradually became weak, and the baby's crying became weak to the volume of a normal child...

The woman with less than half her body left slightly opened her mouth to Sousuke Araki in front of her, as if she was talking about something.

However, Kotori Yumaumi could not hear any sound.

"Is that so... I see... You are Ms. Mari Horimi, right..."

Because, that is "the whisper of the dead".

"Don't worry, I will immediately get you out of the enslavement of this resentful spirit..."

Araki Sousuke, who came to the locker, suddenly froze, showing an expression of disbelief: "What, you refused? Because... he is your child?!"

"With the age difference between the two, it doesn't look like this kind of relationship..."

"Oh, so it's the child you gave birth to twenty years ago... Wait, the amount of information is a bit large, let me go through it..."

Following the narration of the half-length female resentful spirit and Araki Sosuke's retelling, a helpless, painful and sinful past came to the minds of the two of them.

In the 1990s, the Japanese economic bubble burst, followed by stock market and real estate plummets, business closures, and massive layoffs.

Mari Horimi, who was in her twenties, and her fiancé who got engaged after dating for less than a year, hanged himself because of company layoffs and heavy debts.

Only she, who was pregnant in October, and the child in her womb were left behind.

Due to reasons such as inability to support her and postpartum mental instability, Horimi abandoned her child less than a month old in a crowded locker at Shinjuku Subway Station at night, hoping that there will be kind people or welfare institutions Adopt him.

It has to be said that in the social environment at that time, there were not a few babies who were abandoned in lockers.

But when subway workers found the child in the open locker the next morning...

He had stopped breathing forever as a baby.

Even after re-establishing a family and having a daughter, Horimi has been living in the torment of this incident...

After the Obon Festival, she saw the child again in her dreams every night.

He was crying weakly in the locker that was abandoned at the beginning.

Just like the last look at him when he was abandoned.

The more miserable crying sound seemed to be questioning her.

Mom...why did you leave me?

Mom...it's so cold here, when will you come back to pick me up?

After a month of sleepless torment, Mari Horimi finally plucked up the courage to come to the locker that year.

Then, she used her life and soul to fill the bloody hole in her heart and redeem her sins.

"I am not qualified to judge the era twenty years ago and my personal difficulties at that time."

After listening to the narration of the spirit body of Horami Mari, Araki Sosuke buried his face in the darkness, making his expression hard to see.

"All in all, the past has been buried, and what I can do for the two of you is only this..."

Immediately, he raised his hand and gently poked into the locker.

"I hope that in my next life, I can go to a happy family."

A series of holy fluorescent lights lit up in every locker in front of him, illuminating the dark passage and the tears in the eyes of the little bird You Mayumi.

"I know this world is as short as dew. However, however..."

She put her hands together on her belly and bowed slightly to the locker.

When Araki Sousuke took a step back, all the original residual limbs and internal organs in the locker had disappeared.

"Thank you, this child has not harmed anyone else..."

Only the largest locker was left, a small and pitiful baby, and a middle-aged woman holding him...

"He just, has been waiting for me... for too long, too long, too long..."

The mother and son clasped their hands together and nodded to thank them, and then it turned into a little white light.

Those white rays of light, like fireflies, circled Araki Sousuke's body, and poured into the bucket sports bag behind him.

"... After the service is over, the two of you will go all the way."

After the two turned around and left, the silence of the past was restored in this dark subway passage.

Only the twisted and deformed iron gate and the open locker door silently testify to everything that has happened here.

...

"We've arrived at Nishiwaseda Station, we've arrived at Nishiwaseda Station, the door of the carriage will open on the left..."

After getting out of the tram and slowly descending the old platform, Sousuke Araki still had a heavy expression on his face.

"Mr. Araki, don't worry about me. If you want to smoke, just smoke..."

Walking to the subway entrance, Kou Yumaumi saw that he was feeling uncomfortable, and reminded him softly.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Then, for one..."

Having said that, Sousuke Araki, as usual, squatted down to the side of the road and took out a lighter.

"Me, Xinghei, and Ryoma were also abandoned to Daisy since childhood. I have always been very uncomfortable with such irresponsible things."

"But, I don't understand..."

Amidst the smog, he seemed to be talking to himself, and also seemed to be talking to the bird You Mayumi.

"That child, who waited there alone for more than 20 years, was so angry that he started to kill... But in the end, he was smiling so happily in his mother's arms..."

"Resentment, while endowing spiritual bodies with powerful abilities, will also infinitely expand their obsessions, making them forget their original self..."

Seeing Araki Sosuke's discomfort, Kotori Yumasumi also squatted beside him, and the two watched the traffic on the road side by side.

"Being able to become a Buddha together is already the best ending for the mother and son."