Day after day, the papers are alive with accounts of an apparition at Ryouunkaku. Rokurou, a man who sees to the running of Asakusa, commissions Takuboku to find the truth of the matter. On his way to the scene, Takuboku reunites with an old friend, former newspaper reporter Yamaoka. Takuboku soon sees that Yamaoka is somehow connected to the ghost, but Yamaoka walks away, leaving behind only the words "throat moon." Then, magic lantern projectionist Matsukichi is killed. Two months earlier, Matsukichi had come across a woman who had been sexually assaulted. Takuboku starts looking to see if the two cases might be related.
an unidentified young woman, 
collapsed and bleeding from the head,
شابّة مجهولة الهويّة منهارة
،وتنزف من الرأس
strömte aus dem Kopf
einer unidentifizierten Frau Blut,
Matsukichi Koiso encontró
a una mujer desconocida
Matsukichi Koiso encontró
a una mujer desconocida
a découvert une jeune femme
sanguinolente à l’identité inconnue
un uomo di nome Matsukichi Koiso ha rinvenuto
una giovane donna non identificata che giaceva a terra
uma jovem não identificada,
que não resistiu,
была найдена неизвестная молодая женщина
 без сознания и раной в голове.