One week later, Kiyoshi arrived in the town of Lilax Rejesha on horseback. He was to spend several days in the town, which people called the vacation destination of the world. And it wasn't hard to see why the town of Lilax Rejesha was absolutely beautiful. With statues of the goddess and other mystical females lining the streets. The smell of cherry blossoms and lavender filled the air as if every other building was a spa. Casinos and bars were plentiful as street food vendors work like busy bees making delicious foods for tourists to eat.
Strangely, for a tourist destination, the town of Lilax Rejesha had no motels whatever so ever. Only five stars hotels filled the streets with one or two family inns being available. As Kiyoshi walked through the town, his hair flowed freely in the air as he strung his hat on his back to avoid drawing attention to himself as peacemakers love to visit these places. His all-black Yutaka drew little attention as his cloak was tucked into his bag.
His silver-grey eyes glowed in the sunlight, giving them a glittery effect. As he continued strolling through the town, two young women approached him in matching blue kimonos, who quickly grabbed him and took him away. They took Kiyoshi to the spa where they worked and offered him the full spa package for men since they knew he was new to the town.
Reluctantly Kiyoshi agreed and was taken to the changing room where he was asked to remain in a towel only for his massage. Kiyoshi came out of the changing with the white spa towel around his waist and headed to the message whilst the women gossip how sexy and beautiful he was for a man. He even overheard one of the spa workers comparing him to a famous movie star.
If things were different, maybe that could happen, Kiyoshi thought to himself as he enter the massage room. The worker ushered him to lay his stomach first on the bed, which made Kiyoshi uncomfortable as it left him in a position where he couldn't defend himself. But despite his better judgment, he lay on his stomach, trying to relax.
Outside, three of the female spa workers argue among themselves as all of them want to be the one to message Kiyoshi. After a heat rock, paper, scissors battle, one of them entered the room. She was in her late twenties of Caucasian descent with blonde hair and beautiful, light blue eyes.
She strolled softly behind Kiyoshi while twirling her hair, smiling, all the while keeping her eyes fixed on Kiyoshi. As she begins massaging Kiyoshi's back, she remarks that even though he is very muscular, his skin was still so soft. But she noted that he had a lot of knots and twists in his muscles, which must be from years of intense labor.
As the woman continued massaging Kiyoshi, another woman came in with a cup. She walked slowly towards Kiyoshi. She smiled as she presented the cup to him. She remarked in a seductive voice that it was fresh passion fruit juice as she placed the straw in his mouth for him to taste it.
Kiyoshi was overwhelmed by the all of this, which made him uncomfortable despite him being sent there to relax. After his massage for one done, another of Japanese descent came rushing in and dragged him to the hot springs, causing his towel to fall to the delight of all the women working in the spa.
Kiyoshi enters the hot springs, and for the first time actually began feeling relaxed. He began so relaxed that he began dozing off into sleep. As his mind fell deeper into slumber, he began having the same dream again. The dream began with a younger vision of him by a river being bullied by several other boys. He begs for them to stop, but they continue mocking him and throwing stones at him.
Suddenly the sky turn dark and Kiyoshi's eyes turned red. From underneath Kiyoshi's feet, black sludge appeared, taking over the entire river. From the depths of the sludge, monstrous and devilish hands slowly emerge from the sludge. As the continued emerging from the sludge, it hiss like a snake from its toxicity.
Before more of the creatures could be seen from the sludge, Kiyoshi awoke from his sleep and quickly flee the hot springs, gathering his stuff and leaving the spa to the confusion of its staff.
With a burst of speed, Kiyoshi found himself on the other side of town, in front of a small family-run inn. The inn was called ma and pa loving cottage. It was a medium-size wooden cottage that was a couple of hundred feet from the great lake zuò ài which was a destination sight for couples. As it has a lovely wooden bridge for couples to walk over as they are surrounded by cherry blossoms and bamboo. With swans and scarlet ibis birds swimming in the lake enhancing its beauty and romance.
Kiyoshi enters the inn to see an old couple of Japanese descent at the front counter. The couple wore matching blue robes and greeted Kiyoshi with adoring smiles on their faces. The couple announced their names to be Ma and Pa before Kiyoshi could ask if a room was available. That remarked they will be happy to give a handsome young man such as Kiyoshi a room with the old lady remarking if their daughter wasn't married already, Kiyoshi would make a great husband for her. Giving her and Pa beautiful grandchildren.
Kiyoshi, embarrassed, smiled while taking the key for his room from Ma, thanking her compliment as he headed up the stairs to his room. As Kiyoshi goes to his room, Pa shouts to him to not leave the inn, as crime has been on the rise, especially by the lake. Kiyoshi nods his head, telling the old man that he is going to be safe.
Kiyoshi enters the room, and to his surprise, the room is homier than his actual home. The walls were filled with inspirational quotes and love stories this blanket on the bed was had crafted most likely by Ma and in the right-hand corner was a rocking chair.
Kiyoshi marvels at the comfort that an inn of this size runs by two old people as he sits on the bed, stinking into it. For the next several hours into the late hours of the night, Kiyoshi lay in bed afraid to fall asleep. For hours he looks up into the ceiling, reading the motivational word craving into the ceiling until a terrifying scream could be heard coming from the lake.
Kiyoshi quickly springs out of the bed as the screaming continues. It sounds like a man and a woman being at attack. Kiyoshi quickly dresses in his yukata, cloak, and kasa and jumps through the window in pursuit of where the screams are coming from.