"Ah, found it~"
The woman's sorrowful tone took a strange, upward lilt.
Her mouth twisted into a grin as she suddenly shoved her hands in front of Okawa Sadahisa.
Her swollen hands came together, fingers invisible, only the broken palms visible, with black blood continuously trickling down from the ten severed fingertips.
And on her bloodied, mutilated palms, a pile of wriggling fingers was stacked high!
"Found them! Found them! So they were with you all along!"
The woman was ecstatic and manic.
Okawa Sadahisa felt a pain in the right hand he had extended to reach for the Hinoki Fan, and looking down, he saw only a mangled palm remaining; his five fingers had neatly fallen off onto the ground!
"Found it! I've found them! Found even more!"
The woman continued to babble madly, clutching Okawa's five severed fingers, snatched up crazily and held close to her heart like treasures.
"This thing!"
Okawa Sadahisa felt like his scalp was about to burst open.