Upon hearing the shout from the basement, Minamoto Tamako's face changed suddenly. She realized there was someone down there and quickly took out a pink flip phone, turning on the flashlight at its end, and shone it towards the basement entrance.
She saw a dirty girl looking up at the exit, noticing Minamoto Tamako and Fushimi Roku, and shrank back into the darkness in fear.
"Don't be afraid! We're the police..."
As she spoke, Minamoto Tamako intended to go down to save the person. She couldn't imagine how a teenage girl had survived in the basement for so long—it's been over a month since Nishino Ruta passed away. Could it be that this child had been hiding in the basement all this time?
Just as she was about to step onto the stairs, she heard a 'clack clack' sound coming from the depths of the darkness, as if something was being pulled taut.
