Chapter Seven: Discovering The Past
The kitchen smelled of moldy food, and it took all of Maru's strength to stop her from throwing up. In the kitchen there was another book, a locket, and half of a page from the diary, Maru hoped it was the other half that she was missing. First she looked at the book, the title was Keeping the Opening of Hell Happy, and Takao Suzuki and Hayaki Tanaka wrote it. Takao, Maru thought to herself, must have been part of Namie's family, but Maru didn't know how. Then Maru remembered the name Hayaki Tanaka, Tanaka was her grandma's last name. Her grandma had kept her maiden name, and the kids took the fathers last name.
Was the name on this book somehow related to her family? Many questions ran through her mind, but she had to go on because there was not a lot of time left. Next, Maru picked up the half diary page and read it. It read, "the Unknown Ritual. They described what was done for this ritual and I scared me. I got so scared that I screamed, and my grandparents, who I loved, and my dad came out of the room and saw me. They told me we were going to play a game, and then they blindfolded me. At least they let me keep my diary."
Maru read this and a tear fell down her cheek, how could they do this to her? Maru kept asking herself because she knew what they were planning on doing. It was not a game it was a ritual. Maru picked up the locket next, and inside were two pictures; one of an older woman and the other was of a young girl. Maru believed it had to Namie and her mother.
Maru put everything in her bag; she didn't even stop to write in her own journal because she wanted to continue so badly. Maru couldn't think of another time that she actually cared about something so much. Maru then headed for the next door, which was the storage room. This room was used for keeping all of the food that wasn't frozen.