Akito navigated a surreal, shaking world by walking across floating umbrellas to escape a giant version of Rinko. After returning to reality and breaking the spell connecting Rinko to the Hannya, he learned that the spirit had escaped. Rinko later contacted him via a telephone booth with vital information regarding the fog.
I kept following Rinko's trail through the surreal world, and it looked like this world was shaking me at its highest intensity. I watched the distorted landscape carefully, trying to keep my balance as the shadows danced across the shifting architecture of this nightmare realm.
I was seeing two portraits that looked real in the middle of the chaos, one with Rinko and the other one featuring an aggressive cat. I went through a portrait where a giant version of Rinko was waiting for me in the distance. Her scale was terrifying, she looked like a ghostly guardian watching my every move.
When I reached these unfinished stairs, the view ahead was truly breathtaking and unsettling. From what I could see, a giant version of Rinko was turning to the other side while there were hundreds of umbrellas floating around in the empty air.
After checking around for any other possible route, I understood I had to use those umbrellas as a path below my foot to get to the other side where a ladder was waiting for me. It was a haunting sight, and I could see the giant version of Rinko right beside me while I was walking on those floating umbrellas.
And at last, I reached the ladder which I used to get out of this surreal world and return to a stable reality. The climb felt long, but as I reached the top, the distorted colors of the void began to fade.
Then I noticed Rinko was trying to hold the Hannya's influence at bay with the last of her strength. KK asked her to hold her back a little longer while we were reaching her.
After reaching her, I had to try this spell breaker to separate Rinko from the Hannya. Then the whole frame became white with a blinding flash.
We were back outside, outside of that haunted building from where I had originally found the trail. But Rinko was not around so KK suggested we should find her immediately, sensing that her presence was still lingering somewhere nearby.
I started looking around and found the park where I broke the spell, and there was this spectral source left behind on the ground. From what I understood, the Hannya had broken off from Rinko and bolted into the shadows.
The connection was severed, but the threat was far from over as the spirit was now wandering free.
We heard a telephone ringing close by, so I went for this telephone booth where Akito could finally talk to Rinko. She mentioned she picked up a few things from that whole experience and she now knew where the fog around was coming from.
She filled Akito in with that information through that telephone, providing us with our next lead.
Rinko hung up the phone, and after coming out of the telephone booth, Akito noticed the lighting source started fading. KK suggested we should get on those new torii gates fast to reach our next destination before the darkness completely consume the path ahead.
We'll continue in another post.
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