King of the Ring Page #3

And then the phone rings.

Thursday, September 16th

I heard it was on a local channel down in Izu.

Hello?

I found it. As I thought, it is a dialect.

It's something about ``brine'' and ``goblins''.

A dialect from where?

Oshima Island. The volcano there.

Hello, Yoichi?

I'll be late tonight.

Yeah.

You're okay alone?

I'm sorry.

Mt. Miharayama Erupts

Here... but it's a long time ago.

Did Local Woman Predict Eruption?

What is it?

Do you have an Oshima Bureau?

I think so. A correspondent.

Get me the number. Tonight.

Why?

You only have four days left.

I'll handle it with your correspondent.

You stay with Yoichi.

Grandpa!

Well, hello...

Friday, September 17th

Yoichi wants to go fishing with his Grandpa.

Oh, is that so?

C'mon, let's go!

Let's go out and go fishing!

Yeah!

Grandpa! You've got one!

Aww, he got away!

You're not very good at this!

Okay, let's try it again.

Let's fish over here this time.

All right.

You're home...

Hello?

Your man on Oshima says...

...our woman is probably the one who predicted the eruption.

Her name was Yamamura Shizuko.

She threw herself into the volcano 40 years ago.

What do we do now?

Go down there, I guess.

I'll go tomorrow.

Oshima? But I only have three days left!

I know. I have four.

I'll call again.

Is something wrong?

No, just some work.

Auntie...

Yoichi?

Yoichi! Did you bring that?!

You did, didn't you? Why?!

Tomo-chan...

Tomo-chan told me to.

I was careless.

I sensed something at your place.

I thought it was the video.

It was Tomo-chan.

She's not Tomoko anymore.

Yoichi can see her, too, then.

It's all my fault, isn't it?

It should have ended with Tomoko and the others.

I wonder...

Who did the story start with?

Stories like that don't start with anyone.

People feel anxious, and rumors start flying.

Anxious?

Or people start them, hoping things will turn out like this.

Mr. Hayatsu?

Hello. Sorry you've had to come all the way out here.

This way.

Saturday, September 18th

The Yamamuras...

...used to run big fishing crews here.

They're all but out of the business now.

Shizuko's cousin is still alive.

His son and daughter-in-law run an inn.

I've booked you into there for the night.

Why did Yamamura Shizuko commit suicide?

They say she went crazy.

The papers had written some things about her.

She was famous all over the island after she predicted the eruption.

It had always been said that she had strange powers.

She was what they call a seer.

After that, a professor showed up.

You've heard of him. Ikuma Heihachiro.

Wasn't he fired?

He brought Shizuko to Tokyo and experimented on her.

He was trying to prove the existence of ESP.

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