***
Kei knocked on the door.
Rya's house was empty.
She peered into the lounge room window.
When she did so, she saw two transparent ghosts floating in the air. She screamed, as their black colored eyes homed in on her...and touched the glass. Kei's face was frozen in fear...as she backed away...and fled into the creepy cemetery of the dead.
Kei felt cold eyes watching her.
She knew Rya's Mother had opened the portals. She didn't want to believe it. Yet, she knew that shiry had arrived here from the Otherworld.
It was the Ouija board, and the séances.
Her own parents dabbled in the cursed room in Beijing.
They were too naïve to know that the consequences of taking to the dead wasn't something to relieve boredom.
If she was bored, she read books.
Or exercise.
Or write on her typewriter.
Or anything creative.
Or go on a date.
Anything but summoning evil.
That, for her, was more terrifying.
She noticed the words in the middle of the black colored gates:
埋葬地 [まいそうち
(Cemetery-Burial Place-Graveyard)
Kei bowed in respect, then she headed inside.
***
Kei noticed a young man.
He was holding a spade in his right hand.
"Konnichiwa".
"Konnichiwa".
"Are you working?".
"Yes".
"I'm looking for my Mother's grave".
"Yes, we have a lot of graves that are interred in Tokyo".
"It is Maoki Nasuki".
"She is in middle row, plot 45".
"Thank you", and she walked down the cobbled steps...And entered the cemetery proper. Once she saw her Mother's grave, she noticed other people there.
They were transparent.
And, when they turned their faces towards Kei, she screamed. And they touched her face with their long, bony fingers...and turned her to ice.
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shiry-o (death) A Japanese horror novel
KorkuRobert Helliger. 27 September, 2013 In Japan, 1973, 25 year old Rya takes care of her elderly Uncle's Grandmother, who is bedridden. When she passes away, she thinks nothing is wrong...until she hears strange noises at night. Is there a ghostly pre...
