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.
It's very likely that Matsukichi-san 
realized that you were the killer,
من المُرجَّح أنّ ماتسوكيتشي-سان
،أدرك أنّك كنت القاتل
Jedenfalls hat Matsukichi-san herausgefunden,
dass du der Täter bist.
Matsukichi se dio cuenta
de que tú eras el asesino,
Matsukichi se dio cuenta
de que tú eras el asesino,
M. Matsukichi avait sans doute saisi
que vous étiez le meurtrier,
Probabilmente Matsukichi
O Matsukichi deve ter percebido
que você era o assassino,
Похоже, господин Мацукити понял, 
что убийцей были вы,