Bunbunmaru News Flash!

Lurking presence in the comfort room! A supernatural attack?!

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It is just a few hours walk towards east of the Bamboo forest where some humans have established their settlement. They were a big famliy of bamboo cutters. Each family have their own house but is still connected by a roofed pathway. From this family, I met "Mystery guy A" who has been a bamboo cutter for as early as his memories could remember.

He says for the last few days, he's having trouble sleeping as he hears noises coming from their comfort room every night. It happens around past midnight and it happened for three nights straight. It doesn't bother him before as he thought it was someone from their family borrowing their comfort room, probably because their rooms are occupied.

But on the forth night, it happened! As he was coming home from cutting down bamboo, his whole family was getting ready to visit a festival on a nearby village. Exhausted from work, he decided to stay at home and call it a day. As soon as he laid his back on the nice tatami mat, he instantly fell in a deep slumber. This was later interrupted by the same noises he hear every night.

Still in a daze, he slowly pushed himself up to a sitting position and wiped the sleep off his eyes. When he has come to his senses, it occured to him that he was alone, and that someone is using their comfort room.

He jumped up to his feet as if he was hit by lightning, his trusty blade in his hand. He went out to the hallway and sneaked his way to the comfort room. When he was about fifteen steps away from the room, he heard the door sliding open. His heart beating faster than a horse' gallop racing across the vast field, he felt faint and frozen in his tracks while pointing his blade towards the general direction of the door.

What seemed like an eternity ended as the door was completely slid wide open, light from a lit candle illuminating the inside of the room. A hand emerge clasping the side of the door followed by a figure of a person coming out. Mytery guy A's teary eyes slowly adjusted to the candlelight as he saw the face of the man in front of him. It was his drunk cousin who came home early from the festival.

As terrified as he was, his cousin was equally confused seeing him arching back almost tipping over while his dominant arm was outstretched wielding his blade bare.

After a few cups of tea and a little while of wiping the piss off the hallway's wooden floor. His cousin explained that he could remember passing out on the festival after a few drinks. When he woke up, he's already infront of his cousin's door face planted on the doorway. Then he felt his bowel in a disarray and rushed inside and used the toilet. Luckily, someone left a fire starter and a candle in the room.

"After our short talk, my cousin went home next door. I felt somehow relieved and thanked the gods for keeping me safe. I felt silly about myself and laughed it off and told myself how stupid I am to get restless over these things. Luckily I heard someone whispered to me to get myself checked by the pharmacist living inside the bamboo forest after my cousin left our house. I felt a little better now when sleeping at night!"

After those last sentences during my interview with him, he suddenly froze for a few second before blazing off like a mad man. After he was found, his family rushed him to Myouren Temple and asked the temple monk, Byakuren Hijiri to perform an exorcism on him. I believe he was shouting, "Someone was there! Someone was there! I was alone and someone whispered to me! Demons! DEMONS!"

I haven't really got back to him under that as the personnel wouldn't let me get near him for another interview while he is still recuperating.

On the other hand, the weather is warm and sunny! People are still waiting for the cold wind coming in this season. I guess winter has been pushed back on a later date. Or this might be a start of a new incident?

- Aya Shameimaru