Mayu

Chapter 7: How Yoko saw Jiki Fusako

    The following morning, Mayu and her friends are in the Bunka Center Dori. Having a pause to drink water as they sat in the stair of a building, they waited for a short time before making their way to Wakamatsucho, in order to find information about Jiki Fusako. The girls created a drawing of Fusako and wrote the phrase "Have you seen Fusako?" above it. They tried every attempt to ask a resident of Tokyo to know where Fusako is, but, they didn't know who Fusako is as they tried to ask them. One hour later, The girls has arrived in Wakamatsucho, where people are living in some apartments.

"Wakamatsucho? Is this the right place?" Hisa asked.

"That's right." said Mayu.

"It is. Let's get inside." said Marina. Moments later, the girls went inside the building as they looked for a apartment. They looked up to another apartment called Apartment 305, where a woman in her 30s named Yoko Tanaka, worked as a waitress in the Maneki-bar.

"Yoko Tanaka? That woman never worked for years." Mayu claimed.

Marina knocked at the door of the apartment as she answered, "Ms. Yoko Tanaka? It's me, Marina Fukuhara! And a group of girls from my school!" She said as Yoko Tanaka, a woman with green hair and a bang that covered her left eye, tied in a ponytail, a sleeveless pink shirt, blue jeans, white socks and black and white shoes.

"What are you girls doing here?" Yoko asked.

"We're here and we're looking for Fusako, the braided girl."

Later, Mayu and her friends are in the living room with Yoko, who explained about Jiki Fusako. "It happened a night ago, when I came home from my work in the hospital. Jiki Fusako stared at me with that creepy look in her face. She was scary for me and I had no idea where she came from, or who owned her."

"And what happened next?" Marina asked.

"I was combing my hair when Jiki Fusako stared at my reflection, it looked like that she was behind me and I turned around to see her, only to see nothing. I went back to comb my hair and Jiki Fusako stared at my reflection again, I was shocked and I turned to see her, staring at me like that and said:"

"Hello." said Jiki Fusako, creepily.

"And then, I screamed in horror and I went paranoid about her. She didn't look so real, her clothes, shoes and hair weren't real as well," Yoko finished explaining.

"Whoa..." Hisa was surprised at this.

"What do you mean "Screamed in horror and went paranoid about Jiki Fusako?" Kira asked, demanding an explanation.

"Kira, please!" Marina scolded her.

"OK. Can we skip to the part? Tell us what happened to Fusako," said Azumi.

"Fusako is a braided girl and our classmate." said Mayu before correcting herself. "I mean, the girls' classmate."

"Fusako is a girl with blonde hair, blue eyes and wears a school uniform." said Yoko. "She stepped out of her home and found a cat in the streets. And all of a sudden, Poof! She disappeared mysteriously, even that cat."

"The Japanese bobtail?"

"The Japanese bobtail. But, those two never went back home."

Later, Mayu, Marina, Kira, Hisa, Azumi and Tamayo went outside after learning about Jiki Fusako's presence at Yoko's apartment.

"Girls, Yoko saw Jiki Fusako behind her when she was combing her hair. She did not only was speechless, she said "Hello." stated Marina.

"I thought that Jiki Fusako never said many words." said Hisa.

Azumi pulled out her phone to reveal the difference between Fusako and the real Fusako, "The two girls are different from each other, Check it out; one has a skeleton, heart and brain, and the other is made of porcelain."

"What's the big deal? Jiki Fusako have one bone!" Kira replied skeptically.

"Kira, Jiki Fusako is made of porcelain!" Mayu chided her.

"You're right, Mayu. We have 12 days to solve that mystery!" said Marina.

"Twelve days? We're skipping school, sillies!" Kira refused to believe them as she crossed her arms.

In the Wakamatsu-Kawada Station, Mayu and her friends decided to look for clues in Minami-Yabata Park. They went to the train and went to use the Mita Line, which took the girls into the Nishi-sugamo Station. When they left the train, Jiki Fusako is revealed to be boarding in the former.

"Girls..." She said silently.

The girls walked in the streets in order to go to the park for clues. They saw the drawing of Fusako in the sheet of paper and sighed as they kept walking to find their missing friend. Jiki Fusako watched them from an building as she smiled evilly.