I have made you all confused from the last chapter, now, time to reveal the truth…
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Echizen was seating down, covered with a big warm towel. Taka comes back from the kitchen after making cocoa for his father, Echizen, and himself. He gave on to Echizen and he silently thanked him.
Taka's father went to the telephone and decided to call Ryoma's parents to let them know he's here.
"Hello?" A female voice answered.
"Ahhh, yes, good evening, umm, your son, Echizen Ryoma, a friend of my own son, is here"
"Is he alright?" the voice started to get worried, Ryoma knows who it is, it's his mother.
"Yes, ma'am he's fine"
"Thank goodness…"
"It's an awful storm outside,"
"May I please talk to my son?"
"Certainly" Ryoma knowing what's going on, immediately said, "tell her I'm dead".
"Echizen!" shouted Taka. He was stunned that Ryoma would ever talk that way to his own flesh and blood. It must have been one big of a fight. Taka's father tries to make up an excuse.
"Umm, sorry, ma'am but he's in the bathroom"
"No, it's okay, I heard what he said…It wouldn't be that much trouble if he sleeps over there in your residence, just for the night?"
"Oh no, Ma'am, it's fine"
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"Thank you…" With that, Rinko hangs up. She has no idea what to do anymore. Her son would never forgive them, that's a fact. She sighed in frustration of how the event just created a huge tension. Now, how was she going to sleep tonight with ease?
Nanjiroh was sitting on the couch, reading a novel. Rinko was really surprised and very shock that her husband is a reading a NOVEL. A NOVEL! Rinko sighed sadly. I guess her husband does have his moments.
"Umm, Oba-san?" Nanako asked as she approached to her aunt. "Ahhh Nanako, would you mind making your uncle and I a cup of green tea and I promise I'll tell you what you need to know," said Rinko as she gave her a smile. Nanako gave a small smile and went to do what her aunt asked her to do.
Once they settled in the living room, Rinko finds it hard to start the story. "Well, how should I start this…"
"The beginning would be nice," said Nanjiroh.
Rinko glared at her spouse, "I know that! You see Nanako, a long time ago, when Ryoma was just turning 5 years old, he started seeing things"
"What kind of things?" Nanako asked out of curiosity.
"Things you wouldn't imagine…he started seeing dead people"
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"MOMMY!" little Ryoma screamed as he ran up to his mother and cried on her lap.
"Ryoma, dear, are you okay?" Rinko asked worriedly. Two men came running out of the house. To the left was Nanjiroh and to the other side was his older brother, Rai.
"What happen, Rinko?" Nanjiroh asked as he knelt down besides his wife and saw his poor son crying. He's surprised, this was actually the first time he saw him this scared.
"Oyaji! Doggy! Bad doggy!" shouted Ryoma as he cried some more. "It's just a dog, Ryoma. He doesn't mean no harm," said Rinko as she tried to soothe her baby. Ryoma starts to calm down but suddenly he turns around and screamed. He ran behind his mother and starts crying again.
"DOGGY!" screamed little Ryoma. Rai has a shocking look on as he saw a big red dog growling at them. Rinko and Nanjiroh were confused.
"Ryoma, there's no dog" said Rinko worriedly. What's gotten into this boy?
"Oi, Rinko, Mutt, I think he was referring to that demon dog right in front of us" said Rai. Nanjiroh ignores the insult 'mutt' as fear replaced it, knowing his brother a psychic; Ryoma must be psychic.
Little Ryoma screamed as the dog leapt to attack. Rai acts quickly as he grabbed Nanjiroh's tennis racquet and whacks the dog. The dog cried and ran away. Nanjiroh grabs his tennis racquet back and saw that it was ruined. Ryoma ran to his uncle and hugs him.
"You beat doggy! O-san!" shouted Ryoma.
"Better to face it than to run away from it" said Rai as he give his nephew a smile. Ryoma returns the favor.
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"Wait, Ryoma-kun is a psychic, How come I never know that, and I have another uncle?" Nanako asked. This information just hit her excessively fast.
"Yes, his name is Rai, his your uncle's big brother…" said Rinko. Nanjiroh silently leaves the room and went outside. "So where is he?" Nanako asked. Rinko and frown but answered, "He died…"
"Oh sorry…"
"It's alright, child…for many days, Ryoma has seen a lot of things…his been having nightmares of people crying, suffering, and worse, dying, including murder and suicide. After many months, he doesn't seem to mind anymore and because of all those horror, he never shows any much emotion," said Rinko. Nanako somehow felt devastated that her own little cousin would go throw such a tormented dreams.
"For Ryoma to be in state like must be horrifying…and much worse for a five year old…" said Nanako.
"It was, we woke up every night from his screams, and we barely get any sleep…"
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"Oka-san! Oyaji! Help me!" screamed little Ryoma as he ran out of his room and bumped into his parents, he started crying wildly again. Rinko carries him back to his room and Nanjiroh hurries to get a glass of water. Rinko sets down the crying boy on his bed and try calming him down.
"What was it this time Ryoma?" Rinko asked.
"There was a little girl crying! She was crying on my bed! Then she started to turn into small black widows! They attacked me! Oka-san! I'm scared!" said Ryoma. Rinko grabs the little boy and set him on her lap and starts cradling him.
"Oka-san? What happened?" Ryoga asked as he came into the room. "Ryoma just had another horrible nightmare," said Rinko.
"Again? Gosh Ryoma, quit being a baby," said Ryoga. "We barely get any sleep because of you!"
"Shut it, dum-dum!" shouted Ryoma.
"Now you two, stop that," Rinko scolded at the two boys.
"Rinko…" said a voice from the doorway. Rinko looks up and saw his brother in law, Rai.
"Rai, what happened?" Rinko asked worriedly. His voice sounded hoarse and tiring. "This house is crawling with black widows…call the ambulance" And with that, he falls to the ground. Ryoga and Ryoma screamed. Rinko went to check on Rai. His breathing wasn't normal.
"Nanjiroh!" Rinko calls out.
"What?" Nanjiroh asked as he came into the room and was shocked to his brother on the floor. "Oi! Rai! Get a hold of yourself!"
"Nanjiroh! Call the hospital! Now!" Nanjiroh ran to the telephone and starts dialing.
Once the ambulance arrived, it was already too late. Echizen Rai had just passed away. Police starts searching all over the house for black widows but there were no black widows. The investigation of Rai's death only led to the biting of a black widow yet somehow they couldn't find one single black widow in the house.
"It was the black widow!" shouted little Ryoma. "Ryoma, not now" said Rinko.
"It's true! It was the black widows that killed the little girl that lived here long ago!" shouted Ryoma. The police heard the conversation and went over to the little boy.
"Wait, how did you know that?" the police asked.
"Because the girl told me! She said her mother gathered all these black widows from a shop and put all of them while she was asleep" said Ryoma. The police looked at him with shocking eyes.
"What is the little girl's name?"
"Her name was Margaret…Margaret Fooler…Fully? Footer-"
"Fuller?"
"Uh-huh! Fuller! Margaret Y. Fuller!"
"That's…my daughter… It's true she died because of my wife but…we never told anyone and it was never in the news, how'd you know that?" the police asked.
"Because…she's here…and she's still here…her remains are buried near…" said Ryoma. All became silent it had become very chilly. Ryoga, who was now out from his depression said, "So wait…we've been living with a ghost and I never noticed it?"
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"So every year, we encounter ghost problems…sometimes there were demons and sometimes just ordinary ghosts but…When Ryoma reached the age of 10…he wasn't himself that day…that day he tried to kill a neighbor…the neighbor started apologizing and begging for Ryoma to stop but only one thing…she didn't refer to him as Ryoma but referred to him as her son, Jack. Our neighbor started apologizing and actually confessed that she killed him by drowning him…After that, Ryoma fainted and developed a fever soon afterward…We took him to the hospital and a friend of ours who was an exorcist told us…. if a demon ever took control of Ryoma again…. there's a fat chance he'll loose his memories or die…" said Rinko. "That's it…"
"Wow…I never knew…I never believed that" said Nanako.
"Trust me…no one will never believe it either…" there was a long silence when finally Rinko gets up and stretched then heads over to her bed to sleep. Nanako starts cleaning up and stops, wondering, "Will things ever be the same after this?" Nanako sadly sighed and goes back cleaning up.
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