Cause and Effect (Part 2)
A story of a friend's mother who went to that old woman.
The mother's father, that is to say, my friend's grandfather, had a sudden pain travel through his spine in the past. Because of that, he was introduced to an acquaintance, a single girl... that was the older woman he would meet later, but she immediately stared into that man's eyes and wondered if his ancestor's grave behind the house has been untouched all along. Since nobody went to it no matter how much time passed, the ancestor was grieving.
"Please go instantly and clean it, and hold a courteous memorial service," she said.
Frankly, the grandfather had no knowledge whatsoever of the grave, but he searched for it behind the house anyway and discovered a gravestone that wasn't touched in such a long time, it was covered in moss.
He gave it a very careful look over, and it was certainly the same family name as his own engraved there, so although he was surprised he immediately set about cleaning it up. He polished the front, he polished the sides, he was going to polish the back, and he was horrified. There was a huge fissure running through the back of it.
'Perhaps this is the cause?' thought the grandfather. On a later day he arranged for a contractor to replace it with a new gravestone, and his back pain disappeared just like it had been a lie.
The mother's father, that is to say, my friend's grandfather, had a sudden pain travel through his spine in the past. Because of that, he was introduced to an acquaintance, a single girl... that was the older woman he would meet later, but she immediately stared into that man's eyes and wondered if his ancestor's grave behind the house has been untouched all along. Since nobody went to it no matter how much time passed, the ancestor was grieving.
"Please go instantly and clean it, and hold a courteous memorial service," she said.
Frankly, the grandfather had no knowledge whatsoever of the grave, but he searched for it behind the house anyway and discovered a gravestone that wasn't touched in such a long time, it was covered in moss.
He gave it a very careful look over, and it was certainly the same family name as his own engraved there, so although he was surprised he immediately set about cleaning it up. He polished the front, he polished the sides, he was going to polish the back, and he was horrified. There was a huge fissure running through the back of it.
'Perhaps this is the cause?' thought the grandfather. On a later day he arranged for a contractor to replace it with a new gravestone, and his back pain disappeared just like it had been a lie.
<Coach's Request>
Hold on, Isshi-kun... Although I understand that he was cured, I looked at it simply and I have a question about a very important part. If the grandfather met the same person in the distant past, at that time she would've been a young girl. At that time or in this time she wouldn't be "an older woman"... I think for the person herself to ever read this... it's a little scary. It was a small mistake but anyway, in the past, the grandfather wouldn't have known about an old grave? What kind of quality were the materials of the grave? And "polish" doesn't make a picture in any way. It gives the image of it being new, doesn't it? This is also the core of the story so you should take care with it again.