Brothers
Consuming friction between the fractures, the wall's rocks opened into a recess, a kind of compartment hidden in the wall. That gloomy locker contained a small cubic box sealed by a lock.
When all the tiles holding that wooden chest, locked in its place, were moved by the magic of the three spirits, it flew to Osai, the legless man.
Yoichi and his companions continued to witness the scene, not knowing what was about to happen. When the chest was tightly held in the hands of the spirit of the central tombstone, the eldest of the three brothers began to speak again.
"Too many years have passed since the day of our death. So many that they're impossible to remember. My brothers and I loved this mine. It was our home, our family, our everything... aaaah," he spoke.
"Although our memory tends to fade, we remember the arrival of demons with extreme precision. From that day on, the fate began to write our end inexorably", Osai added.