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.
On the other hand... he felt sorry for
 Yamaoka-kun, who had lost his beloved,
من النَّاحية الأخرى... شعر بالشفقةِ
،على ياماوكا-كن، الذي كان قد فقدَ محبوبته
Auf der anderen Seite tat ihm leid,
dass Yamaoka-kun seine Geliebte verloren hatte,
Pero se apiadó de Yamaoka,
que perdió a su amada,
Pero se apiadó de Yamaoka,
que perdió a su amada,
D’un autre côté,
D'altra parte, però,
Por outro lado, ele estava com pena do
Yamaoka, que tinha perdido a amada,
С другой стороны, он жалел Ямаоку,
потерявшего возлюбленную,