The story begins with an eight-foot-tall lady surrounded by ghost story ladies.

Natsume Fanyu did not continue speaking.

He had already guessed the purpose behind the woman's actions.

I have to say...

This mysterious lady is truly extraordinary.

Having already taken over Mayuko Ogata's body, upon discovering their arrival, he immediately came up with this brilliant solution.

That was to force Ogata Mayuko to undress before he entered the bedroom and found her.

Then, the moment he stepped into the bedroom, he withdrew from Ogata Mayuko's body, hiding in a crevice, allowing Ogata Mayuko's consciousness to return in that instant.

As a result, as soon as Mayuko Ogata regained consciousness, she found a strange man in her bedroom.

He himself was completely naked and had no recollection of ever taking his clothes off.

How will he explain it then?

Saying, "I didn't break in, I teleported in"?

Saying, "I didn't take off your clothes; the woman in the gap made you take them off yourself"?

Say, "I'm here to save you"?

Each of these words is true, but put together, they sound more absurd than any lie.

Would Ogata Mayuko believe such nonsense while completely naked?

of course not.

She would scream, be terrified, call the police, and turn all the blame that should have been directed at the woman with the gap into him.

She would use all her legal knowledge as a queen of the legal profession to ensure that the man who broke into her home would spend the rest of his life in jail.

The woman in the gap only needs to quietly enjoy the absurd drama she herself has directed from within that gap.

Then wait for him to be taken away by the police, or to slip away silently through some gap he can't reach, or to hide in the shadows and wait for the right moment to deliver a fatal blow.

This is the gap woman's complete plan.

Instead of running away or confronting the enemy head-on, we should make him the prey.

It exploits the rules of human society, Ogata Mayuko's most instinctive sense of shame as a woman, and Natsume Bon's identity as a man who is most easily accused.

That was indeed a clever move.

She was so intelligent that Natsume Fanyu almost wanted to applaud her.

But she underestimated one thing.

He is not an ordinary exorcist.

More often than not, there are ways to easily solve this problem.

Natsume Fanyu simply raised his right hand slightly.

The opening move was the time-stopping technique from "Feng Hou Qi Men".

Chaotic gold rubbing!

In an instant!

The entire apartment seemed to have been pulled out of the river of time and frozen in time!

Natsume Fanyu lowered his right hand and glanced at Madam Hachikami.

Under his control, Madam Bachi was not affected by the time stop; her voluptuous curves under her white mourning dress undulated quietly in the still morning light.

"Let's go, Okusan."

He withdrew his gaze and walked towards the bedroom.

The eight-foot-tall lady followed behind him, the hem of her white shirt swaying gently with her steps, her upper thighs faintly visible through the fabric.

The bedroom door was ajar.

Natsume Fanyu reached out and pushed him away.

Ogata Mayuko was standing by the bed.

No, it should be described as "freezing in the middle of a certain action".

She was wearing a silk slip dress, the belt of which was undone, the straps hanging just above her forearms, revealing her rounded shoulders.

Below the collarbone, the upper edge of that snow-white arc just begins to emerge.

That was a curve that Ogata Mayuko usually wore, tightly concealed by her business suit.

Her fullness was just right, perfectly filling out the front of the robe, yet revealing a softness that could make a man forget to breathe the moment the covering was removed.

It's not huge, but it's three-dimensional enough.

It was enough to allow the finest silk to stretch out in that spot, forming a near-perfect arc.

At this moment, the arc is half-hidden at the edge of the slipped collar in a frozen pose.

Just one inch short, and the fabric covering that crucial inch would slip off.

And that inch, in the stillness of the chaotic clapper, remained forever suspended in the moment before it fell.

That's why this frozen moment is more impactful than any deliberate posing.

Natsume Fanyu's gaze lingered on that arc for a moment, then calmly moved away.

He then looked behind Mayuko Ogata.

There was a woman pressed against her back.

No, it's not just "sticking" to it.

It looked more like it was growing from behind, like a white poppy sprouting branches and leaves from the grooves of the spine.

Finally, it blossomed into a complete female body, and he nestled her entirely into his embrace.

And that woman was none other than the woman with the gap.

Her arm passed under Ogata Mayuko's ribs, but it didn't feel like an embrace.

Instead, it was as if two frosty white vines were climbing up her ribs, crossing in front of her abdomen, the tips of the vines sinking into her skin, mimicking her pulse little by little.

That right hand was now resting on the hand that Ogata Mayuko was using to hold the strap of her nightgown.

It seemed to be slowly learning her hand gestures inch by inch, like a lake turning upside down to imitate a weeping willow.

The face pressed against Ogata Mayuko's ear was so exquisitely detailed that it robbed her of all reality.

It is as if a craftsman sculpted a doll with ashes and moonlight; any more would make it resemble a demon, any less would make it a corpse.

Looking at this bizarre and strange yet beautiful scene before me.

Natsume Fanyu was somewhat surprised.

He had assumed that the gap woman had invaded Ogata Mayuko's body and was controlling her by possessing and taking over her body.

But now it seems that things are not as he thought.

Moreover, he didn't sense any malice from the woman with the gap.

There was no malice intended, nor was it an attempt to possess someone's body.

So why did she do all this?

To find out what happened.

With his "Insightful Eyes," Natsume Fanyu directly saw through the "true nature" of the Gap Woman.

After a brief moment of distraction.

He suddenly realized with increasing surprise:

"I see."

The Gap Woman is an evil spirit born in a crevice, growing up in a crevice, and watching over people outside from within a crevice.

Watching them walk, talk, eat, kiss, argue, reconcile, and then hug each other and cry after making up...

She had been watching for an unknown amount of time, witnessing all walks of life, yet she had never truly touched a single person.

Therefore, she longed for "contact".

Like a person who has lived in darkness all year round, longing to come into contact with the light.

So she went into Mayuko Ogata's house and did all this.

But it wasn't to drag Mayuko Ogata into the darkness (the rift).

It wasn't to possess Ogata Mayuko's body and live in the light in her place.

He simply wanted to experience what it felt like to be a "human".

That's it.

For the Gap Woman, darkness (the gap) is her home and her origin.

Once a sense of belonging and origin is lost, the meaning of existence is lost.

As for why the "gap woman" calls Ogata Mayuko by her name?

The goal is not to mark the prey, but to confirm the person's name and existence.

It confirms that you finally have someone in this world to call upon.

It's like someone reaching out in the dark and feeling the warmth of another hand.

Then she softly called out, "Are you there?"

But then an evil spirit shouts at you in the middle of the night and reaches out its hand.

Just thinking about that scene makes me lose my mind!