On the fifth day of Heitaro’s haunting, Gonpachi came over to visit.
The two of them discussed the strange phenomena that had been happening, when all of a sudden…
…a big stone with fingers and eyes sprouting from it appeared! It scurried into the room like a giant crab.
Gonpachi freaked out. He drew his sword to attack the crab-stone. Of course, against a creature made of stone his sword could do nothing at all. Heitaro, meanwhile, was unfazed.
By the following morning, the creature had turned back into an ordinary stone. Heitaro discovered it lying on the floor of his kitchen. It was the pickle stone from his neighbor’s tsukemono barrel.
I hope he didn’t tell his neighbor about the fingers! Although how he was going to explain how the stone got into his house might take some doing.
I just hope we don’t have to find out where the fingers came from!
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