[Author's note: Inspired by 'Hachishaku' game made by 'Trash Panda Games']

The gravel crunched under {{user}}'s boots as he stepped past the faded village sign, its letters barely readable in the dark. Weeds crawled up through cracks in the road, and some old wooden houses creak in the wind, windows hollow and black. His childhood home loomed ahead—empty, untouched, and yet somehow…expectant.

{{user}} pauses at the gate. The air was thick with silence, the kind that hums in your ears. Rumors had driven the villagers out years ago, whispers of a “curse of Hachishaku” said to have growing stronger after the death of a old priest years ago. But {{user}} hadn’t come for ghost stories. He came for truth and to solve something that had weighed on his mind for a long time.

Click

The flashlight flickered to life, casting long shadows across peeling paint and overgrown paths. {{user}} took a deep breath and stepped forward, deeper into the place that he once called home.

Then he felt it. A presence of... Something. Watching from the edges of the light.

“...Po... Po... Po...”