Epi.8-5: Their Fates ― As Told by Sayuri

“Yuka here! Let’s get started for today!”
“Let’s get started!”
Yuka and Sayuri beamed at the camera.

“So, um, I heard there was someone who ‘went to see a ghost Sayuri-chan told them about and had a terrible experience.’ A viewer told me about it, though.”
“Hm—why would that happen, I wonder?”
Sayuri, too, looked like she had no idea.

“How was it when you met her, Sayuri-chan?”
“Oh, we just talked normally, and it felt like, ‘See you again!’ you know?”

In the comments, questions like “What happened?” were pouring in.
Yuka herself wanted to know the truth, so she decided to ask Sayuri.

“I heard the person who went to see the nurse ghost ended up with surgical scars on their abdomen.
A lot of them, apparently.”
She checked the information that had been sent in on the tablet in her hands.

“If someone comes into the clinic and lies down on the examination table, you’d think, ‘Are they sick?’ right? I think she probably operated on them because she meant well.”
Sayuri’s expression seemed to say, “Is something wrong?”

“You can’t just perform surgery if you’re not a doctor, right? That’s not allowed, right?”
When Yuka asked the camera for agreement, a flood of supporting comments came in.
“See? Everyone says it’s not okay. Wait—didn’t she try to operate on you, Sayuri-chan?”
“I told her properly that I was healthy.”

The comments were leaning toward the idea that “communication really is important after all.”
No one had even mentioned the fact that he hadn’t been able to speak in the first place.

“Okay, next one. Someone said that when he met Hanako-san of the abandoned school, he stopped being able to hear sounds—and couldn’t make any sounds either.
What does ‘couldn’t make’ mean? Is it a mistake?”
Yuka still couldn’t fully grasp what the message was trying to say.

“Hanako-san likes quiet places, remember? I said, ‘If you get noisy, it disappears,’ right?”
Sayuri answered with a puzzled look.
“Wait—‘disappear’? You mean the sound disappears, not Hanako-san?”

“Yeah. Hanako-san loves quiet environments, so she erases the sounds of noisy people.”
Sayuri replied with a cheerful smile.

“Wow, that’s unexpected. I mean—being able to erase sound is pretty amazing.
…Whoa, he retired…”
Yuka let out a surprised breath as she checked the additional information.

“Okay, last one—the girl by the lakeshore.
Apparently he got really sick afterward.
Didn’t you say ‘Zero fear, one hundred percent healing!’?”

“Oh, that girl herself doesn’t really do anything, but the ghosts around her protect her,”
Sayuri said, as if remembering something.
“Really?”
“Yeah. So if you don’t clearly explain that you don’t mean any harm, that might happen.”
“Why didn’t you tell us that?”
That was Yuka’s question—and the viewers’ as well.

“Huh? We were talking about a cute girl, right?
But the people around her aren’t cute at all.”
She laughed, a light ahahah.

“Well… that’s true, but…”
Yuka still couldn’t quite accept it, and her words trailed off.
“Hmm… so she’s not just cute after all.”

“Really? I don’t think they did anything wrong.”
Sayuri tilted her head in puzzlement.

“Well, since we’re the ones barging in, maybe we really do have to respect them… I guess?”
Yuka pursed her lips and thought it over.
As she scrolled through the tablet in her hands, a line of text caught her eye.

—The doctor’s diagnosis was “spiritual affliction.”

“No way that’s real! Seriously!
Right? You think so too, don’t you?”

At this, the comments exploded:
“Revoke that medical license.”
“How do you even treat a spiritual affliction?”
“But honestly, he’s not wrong lol.”
Skeptical reactions mixed with people just having fun.

And most of the dedicated viewers came to the same conclusion:

—Let’s just enjoy listening to the stories… and leave it at that.