86.9.1, Fukuze Heigen reported to the university.

88.12.25, Fukuze Heigen proposed to his junior high school classmate and university classmate, Hitosato Rie.

89.3.15, Fukuze Heigen returned to his hometown and told his father about his and Rie's plan to marry during university, which greatly angered his father.

89.3.19, Fukuze Heigen's father died of a severe illness. The cause of death was vague and not specified in the diary.

89.3.21, A funeral was held. The diary stated that his father's funeral was much larger than his uncle's.

90.5.15, Fukuze Heigen graduated from university. Through an acquaintance, he found a job near Kashi City, next to his hometown of Kibe Village. Fukuze Rie went to the hospital for a checkup and found out she was one month pregnant.

91.1.4, Fukuze Kyoko was born. The diary mentioned that due to the economic recession, the company was in poor condition, and Fukuze Heigen was under great pressure as an employee, often suffering from headaches.

95.7.8, Fukuze Hiroki was born.

98.2.21, Fukuze Heigen suffered a sudden migraine while cooking. He didn't notice his son and daughter hugging him, causing them to be scalded by boiling water, leaving large scars.

99.6.1, Fukuze Heigen brought his mother, Miyoko, from the countryside to live with him in the city.

00.2.1, Miyoko was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. The diary repeatedly mentioned that Miyoko's temper became increasingly irritable, often causing trouble for her daughter-in-law, blaming her for everything that was lost in the house, uprooting the flowers and plants in the garden and throwing them on the dining table, putting large amounts of salt in the family's food, and even defecating in the bathtub. She could only be calmed down by taking her to visit the shrine. Fukuze Heigen considered sending his mother to a nursing home in Kashi City, but gave up the idea after his wife's persuasion.

10.5.5, Fukuze Kyoko got married to a psychologist named Emon Yuto from the Kashi City nursing home (Emon Yuto also happened to be in charge of Fukuze Hideri's treatment). Kyoko refused to return home to live with her parents.

12.1.20, Granddaughter Emon Shion was born.

13.4.2, The younger son, Fukuze Hiroki, came of age and started working at the nursing home under his son-in-law's introduction. Fukuze Heigen's mother, Miyoko, suffered from increasingly severe dementia. She filled her room with talismans, wrapped her daughter-in-law's hair with charms and burned it on candles while chanting incantations. In the family photos, she colored her daughter-in-law's head red and stuck it on a broken mirror in the bathroom. Because Fukuze Heigen often defended his wife, his mother would verbally curse him.

13.5.1, Fukuze Heigen discovered that his mother had left the house at 1 a.m. After following her, he found his mother wearing a white robe, carrying a scarecrow doll, walking to the Yuhime Shrine located in the east of the city, gesticulating and chanting, and using a hammer and nails to nail the family's photos to a tree below the shrine.

13.7.2, Miyoko's bizarre behavior became increasingly exaggerated. Fukuze Heigen couldn't bear it anymore and sent her to the nursing home where his son-in-law worked. Before leaving, Miyoko claimed she would teach him a lesson.

13.7.4, Fukuze Heigen fainted at home from an intermittent headache while off work. While waiting for the ambulance, Fukuze Miyoko appeared at the door—she somehow bypassed the nursing home's security system without triggering any alarms, passed through several iron gates, and walked all the way back home. At the same time, Fukuze Heigen's headache stopped. Subsequently, Fukuze Miyoko stayed at home and was never sent back to the nursing home.

13.7.5, Fukuze Heigen's condition was found to be intermittent headaches caused by neurological dysfunction. Fukuze Heigen began receiving psychological treatment and taking medication under the advice of Emon Yuto, but did not explain this to the company.

"July of 2013 was the turning point in Fukuze Heigen's mental state."

The doctor introduced, "At the time, Emon Yuto only regarded his father-in-law's condition as age-related anxiety caused by migraines."

"During the subsequent long-term treatment process, he discovered the fact that Fukuze Heigen suffered from multiple personality disorder."

After saying that, the doctor turned Emon Yuto's medical record file upside down and handed it to Li Ang, while also taking out another tape recorder and playing the audio file.

"13.8.5, Psychological consultation subject, Fukuze Heigen. Third psychological consultation. Recorder, Emon Yuto."

"Fukuze-kun, how have you been feeling recently? Have you felt any migraines, or anxiety, frustration, depression, or anything like that?"

"..."

"Fukuze-kun?"

"...Huh, Yuto."

"What's wrong, Father-in-law?"

"Have you felt that Kyoko has been a little strange recently?"

"Eh, Kyoko? What's wrong with her?"

"No, it's nothing. It's just that she and Rie have been going to visit the Yuhime Shrine on weekends recently."

"Oh, that, didn't they often go there before?"

"It's different... ever since Miyoko had that kind of thing happen, I've often felt that everything around me is weird... I always feel like they're hiding something from me, and..."

"Please, go on."

"And I've started to dream about some very strange things a few days ago."

"Strange things? Can you describe them in detail?"

"...I described to you how my uncle died, right? At the time, he went crazy studying legends. When we were all asleep at night, he secretly entered the room with a knife, trying to kill me, Shion, and Hideri. In the end, my parents discovered him and accidentally killed him in the struggle."

"For the sake of the family's reputation, they falsely claimed that he committed seppuku. Not long after that, Hideri and Shion both had accidents. I strongly suspect that our Fukuze family has really been cursed, or that there are seeds of madness hidden in our genes..."

"Relax, please take your time."

"Hoo... A few days ago, I dreamed again that I had returned to the old family residence, lying in the bedding. Suddenly I opened my eyes and saw a dark figure rushing into the room with a knife. Then, a few blurry, human-shaped objects like color blocks rushed in from outside and started fighting with that dark figure."

"This is clearly the scene when my uncle died, but in the dream, I took the initiative to rush up and twisted off the dark figure's neck from behind. Do you remember, I told you that my father died in Showa 64 when I took Rie back to my hometown, because he got up in the middle of the night and accidentally fell from the steps, twisting his neck?"

"Father-in-law..."

"I strongly suspect that I was crazy at the time. While sleepwalking, I mistook my father for the uncle who had tried to kill me and twisted his neck. My mother claimed that my father had accidentally fallen to protect me."

"Please don't think like that..."

"Not only that! Do you know that in February of Heisei 10, I accidentally scalded Hiroki and Kyoko with boiling water? I dreamed of the scene again a few days ago. In the dream, I found that the person in the mirror was laughing wildly while looking at the wailing Hiroki and Kyoko..."

"Father-in-law, you are torturing yourself with the unrecoverable pain of the past."

"...Maybe so, but I increasingly feel that there is really another person hidden inside my body."