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Twelve years ago on a cold winter night, a man named Ayato was working late as usual. He was a salesman so working late was not out of the ordinary. He finished his work around midnight and then started to walk home. His house was quite far away from work so he frequently had to take the train. The train station was located on Yokai Street, and Ayato had to walk through it to get there. Everyone knew about the infamous incident two years prior that resulted in the gruesome death of a school girl, whose face was disfigured by a mysterious and crazy woman. However, Ayato was not afraid of any crazy woman. He was physically stronger and if worst came to worst, he can outrun anyone that tries to attack him.
On a cold winter night in Japan, the streets were covered in freshly fallen snow and illuminated only by the streetlights. After he finished with his work, Ayato put on his winter coat and made his way to the train station. The street was quiet and the only thing that was making noise was his boots stepping on the snow. It was unsettling walking home at midnight but also peaceful, because Ayato was used to go home late. Suddenly, he heard noises coming from the alley next to him. It was the sound of a soft footsteps coming towards him. There was no light in the alley so all he saw was a figure with long hair the size of a child coming towards him. The dark figure was still decently far away but he noticed that the way it was walking was not ordinary. Its legs seems to bend forward when it walks like an ostrich instead of backward like a human. Terrified, he walked faster toward the train station. "There was no way a child will be out this late of the night," he thought to himself. "I've been working late and had worked long hours so it could be a hallucination. It must be." He brushed the thought of the creature out of his mind and started to walk faster. The creature did not seemed to follow him, or so he thought. After 15 minutes of just walking, he arrived at the train station. It was empty as expected and there he waited for the train to come. 15 minutes, then 30, and then an hour had passed but no train came to pick him up.
Tired, he decided to take the taxi to go home. It will be a lot more expensive than the train but he was too exhausted to care. As he stood up and ready to leave, he saw the dark figure again. The figure just stood still at the far end of the station. "How long was it standing there, just watching me?" he wondered. The figure then started to walk towards Ayato and as it walks through the dim light of the train station, Ayato finally saw the true form of what followed him. The dark figure the size of a child was indeed a girl, but missing her lower half. She has a school uniform on, meaning that she was a teenager when she died. She walked with her hands with her entrails hanging out and dragging on the floor. Her nails were long and sharp, and it makes clicking noises as she walks toward Ayato on the concrete floor. Frozen in fear, all he could do was stand still as the monster approached him, faster and faster. Suddenly, his instinct kicked in, and he started to run as fast he can. When he look back, he saw the monster, running towards him with incredible speed, arms bending forward like an ostrich. The monster knocked Ayato over and he fell onto the ground. The girl digs into his belly with her sharp nails, shredding his skin and organs apart. The next day, his body was found by the train conductor, nearly cut in half. The only evidence left behind were hand prints in the snow, leading toward the train station, and bloody hand prints leading away from the station. The case remains open to this day.
Author's Note: This story is about Teke-Teke with the in-depth explanation of the onryo in the introduction. This version of Teke-Teke does not use a scythe but instead I gave her long sharp nails to make her seems more vicious. I made a little reference to Kuchisake-onna in the first paragraph because the two events happen two years from each other. When I think of someone walking with their hands, I think of the way it moves and it seems similar to how flight-less birds run so I made a reference to an ostrich in the story. Unlike the first story, this story is a narrative third person point of view and the next one will probably be first person point of view. I tried my best to connect the story with Yokai Street and the train station, where Teke-Teke died and reborn into an onryo. I was going to make the story about a school girl walking home again but I decided to make it about a salesman. This gave the story a different perspective and signify that anyone can be a victim and not just teenagers. The story happened in the winter because it was when Teke-Teke died, and it gave me a reason to add hand prints in the snow as evidence.
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