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.
Now that I think about it, they say 
a woman was killed here not long ago.
الآن تذكّرت... قالوا أنّ امرأة هنا
قد قُتِلت منذ مدّة ليست ببعيدة
Wurde hier nicht letztens
noch eine Frau getötet?
Acabo de recordar que hace poco
mataron a una mujer por esta zona.
Acabo de recordar que hace poco
mataron a una mujer por esta zona.
J’y pense… Une femme
a été assassinée par ici, récemment.
A proposito, si dice che poco tempo fa
una donna sia stata uccisa da queste parti...
Pensando agora, parece que uma mulher
foi morta aqui há não muito tempo.
Кстати... Здесь же не так давно 
женщину убили.