Chapter 1 – The Strange Vision
There was a higan flower motived red kimono… A very pretty kimono that worn by a very beautiful lady. Her hair was really long and pretty. She wore a tsubaki hairpin that matched with her bloody red kimono. She didn't seem like ordinary girl, I could feel her strong aura.
I saw her… She was entering the Kurosawa Antique…
" That person was in dangerous… Hurry, save that person…"
Miu opened her eyes. She was on the hallway of her school. It was raining hard outside.
" Miu, are you okay?" someone beside her asked. That was Rui, Miu's best friend. Because of the way she dress and the way she talked, people usually mistook her as a pretty boy.
" Ah, I'm sorry… I just got a vision…"
" It's about your sixth sense again, right?" Rui whispered. Rui was the only one on the school that knows about Miu's sixth sense. Aside from school, she worked at magazine company as an assistant. Most of her works related to supernatural things. " So what did you see?"
" I don't really understand… I saw a lady… and she told me to save someone…" Miu lowered her head.
" Mm… I see…"
" Rui, I think I should go home now. I think something must have been happened in the Kurosawa Antique…"
" Let's go there together! "
" But… the class…"
" Don't worry about it. I also worried about Yuri and Hisoka. Let's go to the Kurosawa Antique together."
It took about an hour to reach Kurosawa Antique using the train. Along the way, Miu couldn't stop thinking about her mother. Miu's mother, Miku Hinasaki, left her when she was 3 years old. After a long search, finally Miu could find the woman on Mount Hikami. Miu learned that Miku has been chosen as an eternal flower; a ritual that made her into a pillar that protects the mountain. With Yuri and Rui's mentor help, Miu could save Miku and brought her home again.
Ever since that day, Miu and Miku lived together with Yuri in Kurosawa Antique. Miku said that since her life would end very soon, she wanted to stay near the mountain where she married her dead lover, Mafuyu Hinasaki. That's right, they shared the same family name because they were siblings, and Miku married him with Ghost Married ritual on the mountain.
Miu never see her father, but Miku told her that her father was a really nice and cheerful person. Miku also said that ever since she married Mafuyu, she could talk to him everyday. However, lately it was kind of hard to contact him again. Miku said that something must have been happened to Mafuyu.
" Miu, I'm sorry for asking you about this… But it has been a while since you didn't see any vision, right?"
Miu nodded. " That's right… Last time I got the vision, there was the time that where my mother was in dangerous… that's why I can't stop worrying about her…"
" I hope that she's okay…" Rui tried to calm Miu. " Hey, we have arrived at our station. It seems that it is still raining hard out there… Do you bring any umbrella?"
Miu checked her bag. " Ah, I forgot…"
" Too bad… That means we have to wait until the rain stop…"
" Nah… I don't want to wait any longer…" Miu ran without hearing Rui's warn.
" Wait, Miu!" Rui ran after Miu.
It's really calm and quite on Kurosawa Antique that afternoon. Even there was no visitor that day, but the room was still filled with the coffee's nice fragrance. Well, even the shop offered coffee, peoples usually come into the Antique not to enjoy the coffee, but to asking help from the owner, Hisoka, to use her psychometric power. To make it short, a psychometric power is a power to read memory from their belonging. If someone wanted Hisoka's help, he or she should bring their most memorable belonging, so that Hisoka could trace the memory of the owner.
Long time ago, Hisoka ran the business alone. But since she saved Yuri from doing suicide, she has worked together with Yuri until now. Yuri shared the same power with Hisoka, so they worked together to help people who searching for their friend or relatives.
When Miu arrived on the café, Yuri was standing alone, making coffee on the stand.
" Welcome!" Yuri said. She was really surprised as she saw Miu was completely wet because of the storm outside. " Why are you…"
" There's no time to explain… Do you know where my mom is?" Miu asked.
Yuri nodded. " Ah… She's on her room with Hisoka… Let me give you something to dry yourself."
" No need, thanks!" Miu passed Yuri in rush.
" Hey, Miu…" Yuri was confused as she held the towel. " Damn… I was just cleaning the room…"
Suddenly Rui broke into the Antique with the same condition. " Yuri, did you see Miu?"
" Ah… yeah… she was just arrived…" Yuri gave the towel to Rui before she made another mess. " Before you chase after her, please use this to dry yourself… I don't want to clean the room twice… "
" Oh, okay, thank you…" Rui took the towel. " Where's Miu?"
" She's heading into her room. Is something wrong? She looked in a hurry…" Yuri sat in front of Rui.
" Well…" Rui told Yuri about Miu's vision.