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"You say, just a short while ago, you saw a living woman with this red string tied to her, being taken into the Yamanba Residence by the Granny of the Mountain?"
"Aba!"
The tiny old man nodded vigorously.
"When did she leave the Yamanba Residence?"
"Aba ui ji."
The tiny old man crouched on the ground, scribbling and drawing.
"So she left on her own shortly after entering? Are you sure she came out by herself?"
"..."
Kamiyagawa roughly understood the situation of this specter before him, when it was still alive.
After pondering for a moment, he swung a character and cut the greyish-blood-flesh embedded red string on its wrist.
"Taken to the Yamanba Residence by Granny of the Mountain and left shortly after. Then, less than a day later, she reappeared quite a distance from the Yamanba Residence at King Inosasao's cave, turned into a specter. This development indeed sounds a bit iffy."
Kamiya bent down, picking up the neatly cut, bloodstained piece of red string.
