Chapter 13: Oshiki Kako

I think the story about a female ghost must be told. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Even though no one wants to hear it, the female ghost is not a ghost yet, but a girl named Oshiki Kako, and I will tell her story no matter what.

It was many years ago, when the country was still at war, and there was a skinny girl named Kako.

Kako's father died, and like many men of that era, her father died under the iron hooves of the invaders.

Her father's bones were transported back to her hometown, and she was told that her father was a hero who died honorably to defend the country, and that Kako was convinced and proud of it.

But life has to go on, and only the mother and daughter are left, and it is difficult to maintain even if they depend on each other, not to mention, it is a time of war, as the invaded party.

You can only eat a little radish and pickles a day, and the pension has long been stopped, because the front line is losing and the country is on the verge of collapse, and no one cares about a family with a dead man, because such families abound now.

Even if the days are difficult, they can persevere, and the people of this country have a tradition of enduring hardships and standing hard work since ancient times.

Kako soon dropped out of school, and although she was only ten years old and had not yet graduated from elementary school, no one cared at this time whether a child of a war widow still complied with the provisions of the education law - everyone was obliged to finish junior high school, and the state regulations were no longer supervised.

Kako goes to the city to work for a wealthy family, and the owner of the rich family is a university professor with high prestige and the right not to be drafted.

The thin girl worked very hard, washing clothes, mopping floors, washing dishes, cooking, and she was only ten years old.

After a few more years, the war is still not over, but life is more difficult, and the male host, as a professor, often lashes out at home and scolds him for his incompetence.

But Kako is no longer the thin and weak she used to be, and now she is curvy, with black hair like a waterfall, like a beautiful elf in the mountains.

The professor's son fell in love with her, and the girl fell in love with the professor's son, who had a charming and dangerous eye, and then, like all adolescent girls who fall in love, Kako was even willing to give her everything to the boy.

Soon, the front line was again in a hurry.

But in fact, the front line is not the front line, because the place of the battle is not far from the city, and even in the dead of night, Kako can faintly hear the sound of gunfire.

One day, a soldier in an army uniform came to the professor's house and took his son away.

He was drafted into the army, joined the army, and went to defend the country like Kako's father.

Even if the professor could be exempted from being drafted by wartime decrees, his son, though he was only fifteen years old, was not spared when the country was in danger.

This is a very strange country, in the face of a strong enemy, they can grovel and flatter, or they can rise up and fight to the death.

By the end of the war, the country had sent all men over the age of thirteen to the age of sixty-five to the battlefield, and even women over the age of twenty and forty who had not given birth would be assigned weapons to defend the country and do what men should do.

When Kako's self-conscious belly grew bigger, she was expelled. He was driven back to the countryside and back to his home.

The grief-stricken Kako would not find out, and within a few days, the intruders captured the city where Kako had stayed before, killing the professor's family.

The child was beaten by Kako's mother, the same Kako mother who lost her husband, and he used the shovel he usually used to farm the land to knock out the life of the girl in the womb.

The girl wailed in bed for three days and three nights, barely able to walk until the ninth day.

After that, the invaders came to the countryside and broke into Kako's house, grabbed her mother, and vented their desires on her mother's body, just as they did when they conquered the country.

As for Kako, she was hidden in a dung pit by her mother in advance, and no one knows only how long the girl hid inside, let alone what the girl experienced inside.

When the invaders finally left, the girl came out of the dung pit, her whole body soaked in feces and urine blackened, and most of her hands and feet were rotten. The original elf-like girl has long since ceased to be human.

But, at least, she escaped the insults of the invaders, and she remained loyal to the boy, even though the boy may have long since died.

Exhausted and bedridden, my mother died less than two days later, and then the country surrendered unconditionally, and large numbers of enemy troops were stationed in various cities of the country, and people greeted them like heroes.

As a descendant of criminals, Kako was sent to the hospital, and after being discharged, she was given as a condolence to the local invader garrison, of course, now they are not called invaders, they are called local protection forces.

At this time, Kako was fifteen years old.

To be honest, life in the barracks was not hard, even worse than most of the people in the country.

In her spare time, Kako sometimes thinks of the professor's son, her former lover, and wonders where he is now, whether he died on the battlefield or was captured by the enemy, and now he has been sent to a place where he has never been again, or he has simply become a deserter and live incognito in a foreign land.

Later, Kako was taken by a young officer of high status in the army, and since then, no other man has come to her.

From then on, she worked only for that officer.

The officer told the girl that he wanted to take her back to China and marry her, but Kako just smiled and nodded, but she didn't believe it at all.

She was just a condolence gift from her homeland to the enemy, and the girl clearly understood this.

However, as time passed, the officer's more and more sincere words made Kako think that she had died a long time ago, and it seemed to be a little different.

"I will take you back to my hometown, see the streets and the city there, let my father and mother know you, and introduce you to my friends, because you are my future wife."

Every time the officer came, he would tell Kako like this.

A year later, the troops stationed here were demanded to withdraw by their country, which had completely surrendered.

The troops were withdrawn one after another, fewer and fewer people remained in the barracks, and the buildings slowly became empty.

Kako's sisters were also picked up by their families, and in the end, only a few homeless women remained.

In the empty camp, the girl looked at the long-demolished military house and seemed to be waiting.

It was told that the officer, the young man who had sworn to marry her, had left on the train a month earlier, and had probably returned to his hometown, where he was reunited with his relatives.

Tell him to reunite with relatives whom the girl knows.

This year, Kako was sixteen years old.

She accepted the state's arrangement and was adopted by a middle-aged couple.

She was sent to high school, even though she didn't even graduate from elementary school.

Kako's experience is not a secret, 'the offspring of criminals', 'a woman from the barracks', these labels are firmly imprinted on her.

She was bullied by her classmates at school, like all those who are unfortunate enough to be bullied on campus.

Her desk is full of letterings like 'female branch girl, cheap goods', and it is impossible to wipe it if she wants to.

When she opened the shoe closet, it was full of dead animals, rats, bats, and stinky fish.

Her trousers, her corset, were stolen by the girls, dyed red, hung on the railing, and exhibited throughout the school.

She was slapped, beaten in the toilet, and her textbooks were all graffiti.

Then one day, Kako disappeared.

After she came out of her adoptive parents' house to go to school, no one in the city saw her, and no one knew where she went.

The reason for Kako's disappearance is a little different from what others have guessed, and she feels that her adoptive father is the source of her pain compared to being bullied by her classmates at school.

Because, perhaps, Kako may be more familiar with her adoptive father's body than her adoptive mother.

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For many years, no one saw Kako, but one summer many years later, the girl returned, reappeared in the city, and returned home with a lot of money.

Some speculate that she was married to a wealthy old man and conspired with her lover to kill the old man and embezzle his inheritance, while others say that she robbed the bank with others - because bank robberies were common in the post-war years.

Anyway, the girl has a lot of money, in this age when money is everything, she is young, beautiful and has a dissolute life, she is popular with all men, sought after, like a star.

It didn't take long for Kako to find an honest man who was willing to marry her.

Although married, Kako still lives the debauched life she used to have, and almost all the men who know her are Kako's guests.

And she insults and scolds her honest husband at every turn, just like others have done to her.

Later, Kako died, and died in a car accident.

And the husband, who received all of Kako's inheritance, didn't even hold Kako's funeral, and disappeared without a trace.

Others speculated that the man had left the country because he arranged the car accident, and some swore that the man was captured by the girl's ghost.

So, that's the end of the girl's story.

After that, it's not a story of Kako, but a female ghost.

As for how exactly a girl became a female ghost, that's not something I need to talk about now.