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Chapter 3 - A WALK IN THE WOODS (AOKIGAHARA)

Hello my name is Katsumoto and I come to tell you my story, I have gone through many things I have a wealthy family, they have properties around here where I live, I have always had everything, but for some reason I am not satisfied with my life, my friends only see me for my money, I do not have a real friend and that makes me bad I do not know what to do, I am 25 years old and I almost do not make an effort to do something, I feel that life has no more sense as if I have won in the game of life, so I decided to leave this world, I have nothing of value to continue in this world, since I am near a very popular forest I will go there to finish with this because I was told that this forest is very interesting and it is ideal for people like me who do not want to go ahead.

Already being 10 pm I went to the place, at the beginning I saw a strange sign that said wtha to reflect about my problems, but what caught my attention the most was that it said, that if i enter this forest i will not enter just cause me a little shiver, but i was already decided, i headed to the path and walking along the safe line of the forest, already half way through the safe path, i decided to skip the path and go into the forest, the atmosphere is heavy and i feel a shiver all over my body, After walking for a few hours I took out my phone to check, but I had no signal and I could not handle it well, I had a small compass to guide me, but it also failed, at first I did not pay much attention to it, but the more I went deeper I felt more afraid, I only had one thing in mind, to take my life, but I do not know, something in that place incited me to move more.

Already being about 12 o'clock at night I began to see shadows pass by my sides, some small moans that I did not know where they came from, I decided to grab a rope and started to tie it to a branch of a tree to end this, just when I had the rope around my neck, I heard a loud scream, very loud, thinking it was not real I looked everywhere pretending not to have heard anything, but my curiosity won me, after all I wanted to die, what is the worst thing that could happen.

I took courage and followed the scream, I advanced a short distance and I found a small cabin that looked like it was abandoned, I could not see anyone, I was with a small flashlight lighting me up, suddenly a few meters away I saw a silhouette, it was a woman on top of a tree with a rope around her neck and as soon as I lit it she jumped, I fell backwards because of the tremendous fright, by this point I was already very scared, I heard how her neck broke when she threw herself from the tree, the most frightening thing was the huge silhouette that was seen behind the woman's body, it was like a minotaur from the ancient stories.

I got up immediately and ran out of that place, I sent everything to hell, running I heard laughter and wailing, I only thought of running away, my desire to commit suicide had disappeared, now I only had the desire to get away moved forward without looking back, when after a few minutes I began to hear a cry, carefully I moved towards the direction of the noise and is when I saw her, a little girl with a red dress in a fetal position, I could not see him the face well, I asked her how she got here, at first she did not answer me, I did not approach her for fear that she was a ghost because they are a well known legend where I live, I just looked at her and asked her who she was, until she spoke to me, she got up and without letting me see her face she told me who are you? Why was I here? With fear I told her that my intention was to take my life, but now I am not sure anymore, then I wondered if my life was as bad as I thought?, Looking back I began to vaguely remember a friend in general who was always there for me without asking me for anything, I remembered my mother who was always good to me by encouraging me and I realized that what I was doing was just selfish and immature motives of my part, and I just wanted to escape from some of my responsibilities, I started to cry and out of nowhere I felt a shiver on my back and the tears started to dry, this is when my survival instinct was activated, I raised my head to see the girl, but she was not there, I only heard a voice near my ear that said <>, and I got over exalted, I looked to all sides and that's where I saw it, a huge monster watching me, it looked like a huge wolf, I only saw and yellow eyes watching me, it was so big that its eyes were about 30 centimeters, at first I was paralyzed, but I heard again that voice that said <>, I managed to get out of the trance and without further ado I ran quickly, I was never an athletic person, but I ran as if I were a professional, I kept hearing animal noises and some laughter, heard a roar behind me that incited me to keep running and made the back of my neck stand up, I reached a point where I hid cleverly under some logs and just prayed that whatever was chasing me would be gone.

After a few hours I came out of my hiding place, it seemed that it was starting to dawn, I was very tired because of everything, in the distance I saw a highway, I was leaving this miserable forest, walking towards the highway I turned to see the damn forest, when in the distance I saw the little girl standing watching me, when in the blink of an eye she was not where I saw her and she appeared in front of me, I fell back on my back and there was where I saw her well, she was pale and had marks on her neck as if someone had hanged her, she had no eyes just empty black sockets, I just screamed and closed my eyes when I opened them she was gone, again I heard a voice in my ear that said <>, by that point I was fed up I managed to get out to the road all tired and beaten already about to faint, when I saw an ambulance coming which quickly opened its doors and inside was my friend with my mother they recognized me and I could see their concern I can't hear anything else I fainted immediately.

When I opened my eyes I was in my room with my friend leaving quickly to call my mother, she came quickly to my room and we talked for a while I told her the problems of loneliness I had that I could not trust anyone because they were all hypocrites, but I an was wrong I had a friend who was faithful and not for my things, I saw my friend and I hugged him I asked them how they found me and they told me that my friend realized that I was not there and told my mother, since last night I was looking for me until the park guard contacted us because he found my ID on the ground and called them, We talked for a while and after being in the living room I realized something, a family picture where we were all the family and in that picture there was a girl, she looked like the girl I saw, I asked my mother who she was and she told me that she was a relative of ours who was killed in that forest, she was 12, so there I realized that I was not only having support from my loved ones, but I also had support from the beyond.

It is strange to think that fear was more powerful than my madness, well I don't know if what happened was real or not, but maybe my mind played a trick on me, I don't know maybe it was like that, after this I found my purpose for my future life. I studied psychology to help those poor people who like me were just disoriented and now I am doing better in my life, well, thanks for listening to my story, take care of yourself survivor and good luck.