ILLUSTRATIONS FOR THE MYSTERIOUS BOOK
BY ANAYT GRIGORYAN
'OCTOPUS'
Part II
“So,” Kimi clicked the lighter, and a tiny orange light lit up invitinglyat thetip of the cigarette,“What about you two?” - Hey, no, that won’t work! — Kimi exhaled a cloud of menthol smoke, which quickly dissipated in the air, and shook her head vigorously, — Momoe and I are honest girls... right, Momoe?
Izumi shuddered and dropped the ceramic chawan bowl with the image of waves that she was holding on the floor. The bowl shattered into pieces.“Ah, how can that be?” She covered her mouth with her hand.
— Matsui-san... What would my Riku say if he found out that his Izumi treated his memory like that?
She had already collected large fragments, but continued to kneel and look for small things on the floor that could easily be swept away with a mop. — What would he say... what a shame...
He remembered how a long time ago he got very drunk during the night procession of hundreds of demons in Kyoto, and his friends decided to play a joke on him: put him to sleep on a bench in the park near the junior school, without removing a terrible carnival mask from his face and, in addition, putting on the back of his head the second one, female. Early in the morning he was discovered by a teacher who came to clean the classroom before holidays. Seeing in the pre-dawn haze a creepy face with fangs protruding from its twisted mouth, the poor woman started screaming.
Alexander swung his fist and hit the Japanese in the face with all his might. He groaned quietly, retreated a few steps until he pressed his back against the trunk of one of the old pine trees, and slowly sat down on the ground. Somewhere high in the branches a bird, disturbed by the noise, screamed shrilly. Alexander took a couple of deep breaths. Overcoming himself, he approached the waiter sitting on the wet ground: he pressed his palms to his nose and mouth — almost the same way he did when he prayed.Blood appeared between his long fingers.
A huge number of different signs and beliefs are associated with joro:gumo, including the belief that these spiders can turn into beautiful women and lure men into their webs.The name of such a were-spider or spider-yo:kaya is read in the same way, but written in different characters: 絡新婦.
