After that, Shizuku and the others found several nearby fishing families and asked around. Only then did they learn about Obscure Moon Island.
According to the fishermen, Obscure Moon Island had been an island with little contact with the outside world since ancient times. Its residents kept to themselves and rarely interacted with outsiders. Only in modern times had Obscure Moon Island gradually opened up, becoming a place renowned for tourism. Every ten years, the island held a ritual called the "Obscure Moon Kagura," allowing tourists to come and watch. Because of that, Obscure Moon Island had been quite lively for a time, and these fishermen and boat owners had made a fair amount of money along with it.
However, something terrible had happened on Obscure Moon Island more than ten years ago.
In fact, no one knew exactly what had happened. They only knew that a boat had traveled to Obscure Moon Island at the time and, to its shock, discovered that the islanders had either vanished or died. There was not a single living person left on the entire island. Moreover, the corpses were horrifying. Every one of them had been covering their face with both hands, as if tearing at something.
The police had been greatly shocked as well and sent many people to investigate, but they ultimately found nothing. So they publicly claimed that Obscure Moon Island had suffered a massive infectious disease outbreak, leading to the tragedy... After that, Obscure Moon Island became forbidden ground to the local fishermen. Even when fishing, they did not dare approach it.
After hearing the fishermen's account, everyone wore strange expressions—after all, when they heard that "everyone on the island had inexplicably died," a certain mansion, a certain village, and a certain manor immediately surfaced in their minds.
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