Good evening, how is everybody doing? I'm Isshi. Just some time ago, we finished the recording for "Sakura Maichiru Ano Oka De" and "Kotodama" to be released on October 4th. These next two songs are essential when speaking of Kagrra so we're working on completing mixes. When I listened while sitting in front of the monitor speaker and looking downward with nostalgia, I had a feeling that I could see Kagrra's guideposts henceforth. I definitely want everyone to get them and listen to them too. And, I don't know if we'll be finished by the time this volume is published, but there's also the "Tribal Tour" and the "Dairokkan" Live right? Let's expect it of ourselves in the future...

Well, with these feelings we're at the height of summer, but even so when I speak of summer, it goes along with ghost stories. I've always adored those kinds of stories from the start, and this time I think I'd like to tell a pretty scary story I heard from my friend.

Many of my friends from my home town are unusual people, and among those people there's a particularly unusual guy, E-kun. His house is near the top of a mountain pass, and it would always take him about an hour one way by bike to go back and forth to school. One day, on his way back home after club activities, E-kun straddled his bike as usual and put the school behind him. When he was approaching the mountain pass on his way back home, it suddenly started to rain. E-kun didn't have an umbrella, so he pedaled hard to get home. However, the streaks of rain were far from lessening, in fact they were getting even stronger. E-kun resigned himself when a bus stop with a rain shelter came into view. As he was wiping his wet face and hair with a handkerchief, he noticed rain leaking onto him from above. The area around that bus stop was unusually large and had structure a little bit like a house, but all around was dark as if the electricity had been shut off, so he couldn't see well. He waited there for around 10 minutes for it to stop raining, but since even the roof leak was relentless, E-kun just wanted to get back home so he went out into the rain once again and got on his bike.
'Finally,' he thought upon arriving at his house. E-kun opened the door to the entryway and called out to his mother.
"Motheeer. Bring me a towel."
Then his mother came from within the house, carrying a bath towel. But when she saw E-kun, she let out a cry. "You-- What's that...?"
Not understanding that, E-kun asked: "What?! What's what?!"
His mother responded, her voice in a wail, "Isn't that blood you're covered in?!"
Surprised, E-kun looked at the towel with which he had wiped his face. It was unmistakably dark blood.
Yes, at the bus stop, what E-kun thought was a roof leak was actually human blood. When he explained the circumstances to his father, his father phoned the police. Just above where E-kun had been taking shelter from the rain, an old man from the neighborhood who was worried about his illness had hung himself. E-kun had been in the same place as his corpse for those 10 minutes.

How was it? It's a bit different from usual ghost stories, but it might be more  frightening the way it is, right?
Well then, let's meet again next time. Yours truly.