Mayu

Chapter 8: Minami-Yabata Park / Ketchup and Red Paint

    Arriving at Minami-Yabata Park, the girls found themselves in the park where they saw some cherry blossoms. They saw many people hanging out in the former as they saw many others playing and having fun. "Here we are. Minami-Yabata Park," stated Marina as she punched Mayu's arm playfully, "This is where Fusako and Hoby were here."

"Wow. That's the place that you said to me." said Mayu.

"OK, china doll, I think that this park never showed some footprints." Kira claimed.

Mayu pulled out a magnifying glass from her pocket, "I'm gonna see the footprints, girl. That's cute, but, step aside." She shoved her as she began to see something in the ground, inspecting. "Hoby is really a stray cat who is actually a domestic pet without a owner. Why his owner didn't come back to see him again? I have to admit, he's a cat whose owner died. He's a Japanese Bobtail, which size his paws are?" She narrated as she noticed Hoby's cat footprints in the ground. "Oval. His paws are oval, girls."

"Did you girls think that she came to Fusako leaving these?" Marina asked.

"Yep." Hisa and Azumi nodded in agreement as Tamayo pointed to some human footprints.

"Fusako went here and there," she stated as she picked up an cat fur piece in the floor. "It's white."

"Jiki Fusako left it behind anyway." Hisa claimed.

"Hisa, what do you mean? Jiki Fusako is the only one who never had many cats in her life!" said Marina.

"We have to talk to her mom, girls!" Hisa continued.

The girls argued how Fusako and Hoby have met in the park as Jiki Fusako appeared behind Azumi as she gave a pat in her shoulder, startling her. "Huh? What was that?"

"What's wrong, Azumi?" Marina asked as she saw the porcelain girl winking her eye at them. "Oh my gosh! How she followed us?!"

"Why the heck she did that?" Mayu asked as she noticed a note in the tree. "Oh my stars! Another note!"

The china doll went next to the tree and picked it up the note sticked to it. Mayu started to read it as she realized that Jiki Fusako wanted her and her friends to go to a abandoned residence where someone wants to talk to her. "Girls! Look!" She showed the note to Marina and company.

"Hello, girls.

I saw you leaving that train after you were talking about me at Yoko's apartment. I always love to fool you by thinking that I showed up mysteriously. I fooled you girls by thinking that I'm the real Fusako. Here's one thing I'm gonna tell ya: I killed the Takamiya family. Are you guys want to see it? It's located in 37 Takinogawa street.

~Jiki Fusako"

"Jiki Fusako killed the Takamiya family. She wants us in that house." Marina remarked.

"Say what? killed the Takamiya family?" Mayu asked.

"I don't think that a porcelain figure killed an innocent family, girls." said Azumi.

"Let's find out. She got all the guts to do this."

Later, Mayu and her friends arrived on a house where the Takamiya family is living. Tamayo rang the doorbell several times to call the family, but no avail. "OK, I admit. Let's go."

"Wait a minute." Marina interrupted her as she saw a sign which said: "For rent." "That house is the former residence of the Takamiya family."

"Gee...The Takamiya family lived in that house for years." Hisa reassured as she and her friends opened the door of the house, shocking her and her friends. "Blood!"

The girls assumed that the "blood" came from the Takamiya family's dead bodies as they went inside. Azumi gulped in fear as she saw the "blood" around the floor and noticed a handprint in the wall and others as well. "Those came from the father."

"What's that?" Kira picked it up a mannequin head. She screamed as she thought that it's a decapitated head. "It's Mr. and Mrs. Takamiya's daughter! She lost her head!"

"It's a mannequin head, Kira!" Mayu snatched the head from her. "Jiki Fusako stole it from some kind of store."

"Jiki Fusako created one of those tricks, girls." Marina stated. "Let's go upstairs. This doesn't mean that she killed the Takamiya family," she started to walk as she ended up stomping on something. "That wasn't me, was it?"

"What did you do?" Hisa asked.

"A bottle of ketchup."

"Ketchup? I thought you said blood."

"No! Look at the floor!" Marina pointed to the floor, noticing that the "blood" is actually ketchup and red paint. "Those are ketchup and red paint, Jiki Fusako fooled us!"

"And the Takamiya family wasn't killed! I'll go upstairs!" Tamayo stated as she went upstairs and went to the master bedroom.

Mayu picked up the bottle of ketchup and squeezed some of it. She licked the ketchup on her finger and realized it tasted good. "It's really ketchup, Marina. The one that you stepped on it?"

"Of course it is, Mayu. Jiki Fusako poured ketchup on the floor with that!" Marina told her as she picked up the bottle.

In the upper floor, Tamayo looked for clues as she opened the master bedroom door where Mr. and Mrs. Takamiya slept. "They're not here," she said to herself as she touched the bed sheet in the bed. "There they are!" Tamayo cried as she uncovered the bedsheet to reveal more red paint. "It's red paint!" She shouted in surprise as Jiki Fusako appeared behind her.

"It's not red paint, it's blood, silly." She remarked as Tamayo screamed.

"No! Get away from me!" She shooed her away as she went under the bed to hide herself from the cruel porcelain figure. Jiki Fusako tried to pull Tamayo out from it, only to be avoided every time when the athletic girl prepared to attack her with her fists. She put her hand in her chin as she wondered where she is. In a moment of thinking, she grunted as she got a idea and saw Tamayo's exposed feet. She snapped her fingers as she struggled to pull Tamayo from under the bed. "Ow! Let me go! Let me go!"

In the living room, Mayu and her friends are going upstairs after seeing the red handprints on the wall with paint, the floor filled with ketchup, and red footprints in the kitchen. "Girls, Jiki Fusako left some red footprints in the kitchen floor, not blood."