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.
Because... there was a certain fact 
regarding the origins of this ghostly uproar
لأنّ... كانت هناك حقيقة أكيدة تخصّ
أصول فوضى الشّبح هذه
Das hast du getan, um die Wahrheit
über den Ursprung des Geister-Aufruhrs, …
Porque cierto incidente originó
este alboroto sobre el fantasma
Porque cierto incidente originó
este alboroto sobre el fantasma
Parce que…
Perché
Porque o Matsukichi
descobriu um certo fato
Потому что... Мацукити кое-что выяснил