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Speaker 1: today's story. On April fifteenth, twenty eighteen, a fifty six
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Speaker 1: year old woman named Yoshika Yasutake began dusting a piano
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Speaker 1: inside of her family's very small and very clean home
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Speaker 1: in the English village of Helmsley, like she always did.
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Speaker 1: After dusting the outside of this piano, Yoshika lifted up
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Speaker 1: the lid and began individually dusting each of the piano keys.
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Speaker 1: But as she did this, she was very careful not
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Speaker 1: to press down accidentally on any of the keys and
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Speaker 1: make a sound. That was the last thing she wanted
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Speaker 1: to do. Every time Yoshika was in charge of cleaning
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Speaker 1: the house, she always dreaded getting to the piano because
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Speaker 1: she was so worried about making a sound. After Yoshika
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Speaker 1: had finished dusting this piano both out side and inside,
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Speaker 1: she lowered the lid and then walked over to a
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Speaker 1: bookcase right next to a window and began dusting each
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Speaker 1: of the books. And as she did, she began to
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Speaker 1: hear out the window the sounds of birds chirping and
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Speaker 1: cars driving around and people chatting. And Yoshika, when she
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Speaker 1: heard this, she stopped dusting for a moment and just
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Speaker 1: looked out the window at the beautiful town, all the
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Speaker 1: little stone cottages that lined the road. And as she
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Speaker 1: looked out there and listened to the sounds of her village,
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Speaker 1: Yoshika was struck with a sadness about all the things
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Speaker 1: that she was missing out on. Once Yoshika had been
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Speaker 1: a world class pianist. She had trained at the Royal
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Speaker 1: College of Music, which is one of the most prestigious
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Speaker 1: institutions in London, and she used to play packed symphony
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Speaker 1: halls where sometimes in the audience would be literal members
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Speaker 1: of the Royal family. I mean, she was a really
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Speaker 1: big deal. But Yoshika didn't play the piano anymore because
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Speaker 1: her younger sister, Rena, had come back home. Now, as
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Speaker 1: soon as Yoshika thought of Rena, she got angry and
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Speaker 1: instinctively just turned and stared at Rena's closed bedroom door,
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Speaker 1: and just for a moment, Yoshika wished that Rena had
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Speaker 1: not come home, because ever since Rena had come home,
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Speaker 1: it was like all of Yoshika's family had decided that
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Speaker 1: nothing else was important. Rena was the only thing that mattered.
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Speaker 1: The Yasutake family consisted of Yoshika as well as of
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Speaker 1: course Rena, who was forty nine years old, and they
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Speaker 1: both had a brother who was fifty one years old
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Speaker 1: and his name was Takea Hero and the three siblings.
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Speaker 1: Mother also lived with them and she was eighty years old.
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Speaker 1: As for their dad, he had passed away a few
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Speaker 1: years earlier. Yoshika and Takahiro were both very impressive in
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Speaker 1: their own ways. Yoshika had been this amazing pianist and
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Speaker 1: Takahiro was this amazing writer. But Rena was just on
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Speaker 1: another level. Rena not only spoke fluent Greek, Latin, English,
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Speaker 1: and Japanese, but she also created her own dialect of
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Speaker 1: Japanese with a complete system of grammar. Rena was also
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Speaker 1: this unbelievable artist, and everybody wanted to buy her painting,
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Speaker 1: but Rena would never sell, or if she did, it
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Speaker 1: was quite rare, but that only created lots of hype
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Speaker 1: around her artwork. It was like so valuable to get
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Speaker 1: your hands on one of Rena's paintings. As a child,
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Speaker 1: Rena had been awarded all these scholarships to all these
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Speaker 1: prestigious private schools, and then after graduating high school, she
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Speaker 1: was given a full ride scholarship to the University of Cambridge,
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Speaker 1: which is one of the most prestigious universities in the world,
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Speaker 1: and so everybody assumed Rena was on track to become
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Speaker 1: this world famous artist. But there was something dark inside
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Speaker 1: of Rena that no one could quite place. It only
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Speaker 1: came out when she would have these sudden outbursts of anger,
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Speaker 1: and people would see this side of her that just
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Speaker 1: didn't line up with the rest of who she was.
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Speaker 1: But these flashes of anger would often pass quickly, and
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Speaker 1: so people kind of wrote it off as a byproduct
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Speaker 1: of extreme genius. It was like her brain just sometimes
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Speaker 1: couldn't quite handle how smart she was, and she would
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Speaker 1: get mad and frustrated. But when Rena graduated from the
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Speaker 1: University of Cambridge and came back home, she just was
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Speaker 1: total different. It was like something inside of her had
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Speaker 1: snapped and stayed broken. A couple of days after Rena
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Speaker 1: had come home, she had one of those sudden outbursts
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Speaker 1: of anger. But Rena's anger never went away. She just
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Speaker 1: stayed mad for days and days, and her family began
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Speaker 1: asking her, like, what has gotten you so upset? But
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Speaker 1: Rena refused to talk about it, and eventually Rena just
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Speaker 1: locked herself in her bedroom in the family home and
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Speaker 1: she would stay inside of there, refusing to talk to
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Speaker 1: her family for weeks, and then when she did finally
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Speaker 1: emerge after several weeks, it was clear Rena was just different.
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Speaker 1: She basically refused to speak to anyone, family included unless
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Speaker 1: it was absolutely necessary, and she really never left the
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Speaker 1: house or even her room unless it was totally necessary.
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Speaker 1: And it would turn out this was not some post
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Speaker 1: college phase Reena was going through. This would become Rena's life.
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Speaker 1: She basically became a total recluse inside of that bedroom
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Speaker 1: for decades, to the point where the family's name didn't
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Speaker 1: even know Rena existed because she basically never came out
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Speaker 1: of the house. Yoshika stopped staring at her sister's closed
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Speaker 1: bedroom door and turned her attention back to the books
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Speaker 1: on the shelf. She finished dusting them, and then after
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Speaker 1: she was done, she was done cleaning the house, and
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Speaker 1: so she put the duster down, and Yoshika very quietly
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Speaker 1: tiptoed her way over to Rena's closed bedroom door, and
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Speaker 1: very quietly she knocked. Rena hated loud noises, which is
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Speaker 1: why Yoshika was no longer allowed to play the piano
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Speaker 1: because it was too loud for Rena. After Yoshika gave
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Speaker 1: this light knock, she began counting in her head to
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Speaker 1: thirty because Rena had told her, you do not come
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Speaker 1: in right away. You knock, and you wait thirty seconds
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Speaker 1: at least, and then maybe I'll let you come inside.
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Speaker 1: And so Yoshika she's counting in her head one, two, three,
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Speaker 1: She gets to twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, and
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Speaker 1: then from inside the room, Rena would tell Yoshika, okay,
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Speaker 1: you're allowed to enter. Yoshika very slowly reached down, she
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Speaker 1: turned the knob and opened up her sister's bedroom door,
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Speaker 1: and it revealed this totally dark room, this very small
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Speaker 1: cramp space. All the shades and blinds had been drawn,
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Speaker 1: and Rena was sitting on her bed, completely silent, and
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Speaker 1: Yoshika she kept her head down, being very careful not
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Speaker 1: to make eye contact with Rena. She didn't want to
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Speaker 1: upset her and Yoshika. She walked into the room. She
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Speaker 1: made her way to the table, and she scooped up
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Speaker 1: all of Reena's dirty dishes, and then Yoshika she turned
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Speaker 1: around and began walking out again, and as she did,
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Speaker 1: she tried to take a quick glimpse at whatever Rena
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Speaker 1: was working on in her bedroom, because Rena had told
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Speaker 1: her family that she was working on this master work,
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Speaker 1: but wouldn't really elaborate on it. And in order to
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Speaker 1: work on this thing, she needed the room to be
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Speaker 1: dark and the house to be silent, and she needed
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Speaker 1: to focus exclusively on this master work, and the family
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Speaker 1: needed to support her as she did this. But again,
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Speaker 1: Rena just never really elaborated on what this master work was.
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Speaker 1: She would just say that it was very special and
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Speaker 1: it would combine all the elements of her life, her spirit,
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Speaker 1: her body, her soul. Even the family would be a
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Speaker 1: part of building this master work. And when her family
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Speaker 1: asked her, well, what do you mean and how can
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Speaker 1: we support you in making this master work, Rena would
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Speaker 1: just say, oh, you'll know when the time is right.
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Speaker 1: Yoshika couldn't get a glimpse of the master work, and
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Speaker 1: so she quickly turned her head back down to the
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Speaker 1: ground and shuffled her way out of Rena's room and
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Speaker 1: shut the door behind her. And then Yoshika she went
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Speaker 1: to the kitchen and she dumped Rena's dishes in the sink,
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Speaker 1: which was totally clean to begin with because one of
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Speaker 1: Rena's rules was the house must always be immaculately clean,
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Speaker 1: no dirty dish, no dust anywhere. I mean, it had
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Speaker 1: to be perfect, spotless at all times because that's the
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Speaker 1: only way Rena could work on this master work. And
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Speaker 1: so as Yoshika cleaned and dried off all of Rena's
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Speaker 1: dishes and began putting them away, her brother Takahiro walked
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Speaker 1: into the kitchen and he would say to Yoshika that
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Speaker 1: it was time for them to leave the house and
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Speaker 1: go to the market and buy some supplies for Rena
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Speaker 1: so she can continue to work on this master work.
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Speaker 1: Yoshika was immediately totally annoyed that they had to go
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Speaker 1: do this because everything was all about Rena, but she
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Speaker 1: kind of buried those feelings and told her brother, okay, sure,
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Speaker 1: let's go. Takahiro was different than Yoshika and how he
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Speaker 1: thought about their younger sister, Rena. Yoshika totally resented Rena
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Speaker 1: because now that Rena is home, Yoshika basically had to
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Speaker 1: give up her career as this amazing pianist in order
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Speaker 1: to support Rena in this whole master work she was
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Speaker 1: working on. But Taka Hero he was totally fine giving
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Speaker 1: up his writing career to just focus on supporting Rena
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Speaker 1: because he really believed in Rena, and he thought that
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Speaker 1: this master work she was building was going to be
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Speaker 1: like the single greatest piece of art in the history
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Speaker 1: of humankind, and so Takahiro felt proud to kind of
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Speaker 1: be a part of it. Now, Takahiro, like the rest
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Speaker 1: of his family, had no idea what this master work
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Speaker 1: actually was. But Takahiro and Rena had a much better
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Speaker 1: relationship than Yoshika and Rena, and so Rena would tell
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Speaker 1: Taka Hero these specific things that she needed in order
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Speaker 1: to build this master work. And so that day, Rena
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Speaker 1: had told Takahiro some things she needed, and so he
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Speaker 1: and Yoshika were going to go out and get them.
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Speaker 1: So Hero and Yoshika threw on their jackets and stepped outside,
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Speaker 1: and as soon as they were out there, they both
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Speaker 1: flipped their collars up and kind of concealed their faces
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Speaker 1: and put their heads down because they were very careful
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Speaker 1: not to make eye contact with other people. This family
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Speaker 1: was already very private, but with Rena, they had been
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Speaker 1: instructed to be even more private and not even really
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Speaker 1: interact with the outside world, and so basically anytime they
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Speaker 1: went out in public, they would kind of hide themselves.
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Speaker 1: And so Yoshika and Takahiro they made their way to
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Speaker 1: the pharmacy. They ducked their way inside and they would
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Speaker 1: purchase a bottle of surgical spirits, which is sort of
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Speaker 1: like a medical alcohol. And then after buying that, the
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Speaker 1: brother and sister put their callers back up headed back
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Speaker 1: outside and they went to an old used bookstore and
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Speaker 1: they bought a book on palm reading, which is the
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Speaker 1: art of studying the lines on your hands in order
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Speaker 1: to tell someone's future. And when the brother and sister
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Speaker 1: bought this book, even though the cashier was talking to them,
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Speaker 1: they kept their heads down and didn't say a word
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Speaker 1: to the cashier. And then after getting their book, the
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Speaker 1: brother and sister hurried their way back home, and when
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Speaker 1: they got there, the door was locked, but instead of
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Speaker 1: pulling out a key and unlocking the door of their
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Speaker 1: own home, the brother and sister knocked and they waited,
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Speaker 1: and then at some point their mother came to the
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Speaker 1: door and they heard four locks turning. The door opened
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Speaker 1: up and then Yoshika and Takehiro walked inside and they
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Speaker 1: shut the door and then locked again the four dead bolts.
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Speaker 1: Rena was adamant that no one in the family could
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Speaker 1: carry around a key to the house. It was too
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Speaker 1: dangerous because they could potentially lose the key in town
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Speaker 1: and then someone could come into their house and potentially
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Speaker 1: see Rena's master work, and they couldn't have that happen,
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Speaker 1: and so nobody had keys. They had to knock each
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Speaker 1: time they came home. And the reason they had four
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Speaker 1: locks on the door was again because Rena was very
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Speaker 1: worried about somebody coming into this house and seeing what
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Speaker 1: she was doing. Yoshika carried the bag with the supplies
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Speaker 1: inside of it, the surgical spirits and the palm reading book,
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Speaker 1: over to Rena's closed bedroom door, and instead of knocking,
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Speaker 1: Yoshika just placed the bag right outside the door. She
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Speaker 1: turned around and began walking away, and then as she did,
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Speaker 1: she heard the sound of Rena's door opening, just a crack,
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Speaker 1: and Yoshika she quickly turned around and she saw a tiny,
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Speaker 1: skinny arm reach out from behind the door. It grabbed
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Speaker 1: the bag and then pulled the bag back into the
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Speaker 1: April eighteenth, twenty eighteen, Yoshika was sitting in the kitchen
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Speaker 1: reading a book when she overheard her brother Takahiro chatting
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Speaker 1: with Rena. Now Takahiro and Rena were not facing each
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Speaker 1: other in the same room talking. Rena was still in
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Speaker 1: her bedroom. Her door was closed, and Takahiro was outside
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Speaker 1: of her bedroom and he was just sitting on the
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Speaker 1: ground with his back to the door, talking through the
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Speaker 1: door to Rena. Now this was not unusual because unlike
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Speaker 1: Yoshika and Rena, who did not have a good relationship
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Speaker 1: and who really didn't talk at all, Takahiro and Rena
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Speaker 1: did have a good relationship and they would do this
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Speaker 1: fairly often. They would chat through the for like hours
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Speaker 1: at a time. And so for a minute, Yoshika kind
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Speaker 1: of ignored her brother and sister chatting and focused again
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Speaker 1: on her book. But at some point she began hearing
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Speaker 1: what her brother was saying, and it was just totally weird,
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Speaker 1: and so she put her book down and just began
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Speaker 1: listening to Taca Hero, and what he was saying was,
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Speaker 1: how can you do that? That doesn't make any sense?
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Speaker 1: How only your soul? How Yoshika sensed that her brother
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Speaker 1: was confused and maybe upset about something, and so she
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Speaker 1: couldn't help herself. She put a book down, and Yoshika
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Speaker 1: walked out to the living room and looked down at
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Speaker 1: her brother to see if he would kind of give
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Speaker 1: her some indication of what was going on. But When
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Speaker 1: taca Hero looked up and saw Yoshika, he and Rena
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Speaker 1: stopped talking, and Taca Hero just shook his head, stood up,
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Speaker 1: and walked away. After Takahiro was gone, Yoshika very quietly
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Speaker 1: walked over to Rena's bedroom door, and just out of curiosity,
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Speaker 1: she pressed her ear up against the wood and tried
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Speaker 1: to listen to see if she could maybe hear Rena
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Speaker 1: and catch something she was saying that would begin to
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Speaker 1: explain what she had just overheard. But all she heard
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Speaker 1: was the sound of Rena slowly shuffling towards the back
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Speaker 1: of her bedroom where her bed was, and then it
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Speaker 1: was totally silent, and so Yoshika moved away from the
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Speaker 1: door and went back into the kitchen and she sat
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Speaker 1: down to read again, but she couldn't focus on the
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Speaker 1: book because it was like this wave of sadness was
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Speaker 1: just coming over her. And the reason Yoshika was feeling
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Speaker 1: this way is she was thinking about the fact that
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Speaker 1: back in the day, when she was a kid, her
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Speaker 1: and Rena used to be as close as sisters could
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Speaker 1: possibly be. Then for much of their lives, they were
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Speaker 1: very close, even after Rena began this kind of reclusive lifestyle.
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Speaker 1: They still you were friends. They interacted, but something happened
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Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, five years earlier, that totally severed their
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Speaker 1: relationship for good. On that day, Rena had emerged from
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Speaker 1: her bedroom and Yoshika offered to read Rena's pomp. This
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Speaker 1: was something the two sisters did for each other periodically.
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Speaker 1: It was like a way for them to bond. And
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Speaker 1: so Rena held out her hand and Yoshika took it
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Speaker 1: and she began tracing a long horizontal line across her palm. Now,
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Speaker 1: Rena's hands were different than most people's hands. Rena had
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Speaker 1: something called a Simian line, which is a very rare
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Speaker 1: thing on people's palms. It's like this long horizontal line
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Speaker 1: that runs the length of your hand in palm. Reading
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Speaker 1: a Simian line can be either very good or very bad.
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Speaker 1: It can indicate that the person is a visionary or
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Speaker 1: a mystic, so that's the good side. Or it can
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Speaker 1: indicate that this person has a terrible disease or they're
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Speaker 1: very aggressive, so that's the bad side. Rena knew she
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Speaker 1: had the Simian line, and she believed that it represented
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Speaker 1: something good. She would say that she had a visionary soul,
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Speaker 1: but on this particular day in twenty thirteen, the family
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Speaker 1: had recently been banned from a local supermarket because Rena
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Speaker 1: had actually gone to this market and gotten really upset
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Speaker 1: with some staff members and totally lost or cool and
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Speaker 1: screamed and yelled at them, and so they had been banned.
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Speaker 1: And so Yoshika thinking about this, she's looking at Rena's
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Speaker 1: palm and she goes, oh, the Simian line. Maybe this
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Speaker 1: is why you were acting so aggressive at the supermarket.
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Speaker 1: Maybe this means you're an aggressive person. But after Yoshika
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Speaker 1: said this, Rena was so offended that she whipped her
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Speaker 1: hand back and began screaming and yelling at Yoshika, calling
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Speaker 1: her an idiot, and saying, you don't understand the vision
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Speaker 1: that I have. I'm going to show the world someday
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Speaker 1: this vision, and you and those idiots down at the
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Speaker 1: grocery store would never understand. And then Rena began beating
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Speaker 1: and punching and kicking Yoshika, and Yoshika's screaming and trying
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Speaker 1: to protect herself, and then Taka Hero the brother had
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Speaker 1: to run in and separate the two of them. Now,
18:29
Speaker 1: even though Rena was prone to these angry outbursts. This
18:33
Speaker 1: was the first time that she had lashed out physically,
18:36
Speaker 1: and so Rena's mother was concerned that Rena had some
18:39
Speaker 1: underlying condition that was causing her to lash out physically,
18:42
Speaker 1: and so she sent Reena to the doctor, and the
18:45
Speaker 1: doctor would say, you know, there is no underlying condition
18:48
Speaker 1: that led to this. However, it seems pretty clear that
18:51
Speaker 1: Rena is having some kind of psychological breakdown and needs
18:54
Speaker 1: psychiatric treatment, maybe even hospitalization. But Rena had totally rejected this,
19:00
Speaker 1: refused to get treatment, and blamed everything on Yoshika. And
19:03
Speaker 1: then after that, Rena really stopped leaving her bedroom. She
19:07
Speaker 1: left like once every couple of months before that, but
19:10
Speaker 1: now she basically stayed in there twenty four to seven.
19:13
Speaker 1: And at the same time, Rena had added all these
19:16
Speaker 1: new rules that her family now needed to follow to
19:19
Speaker 1: allow Rena to be able to focus on her master
19:22
Speaker 1: work while she was in her bedroom, and that included
19:24
Speaker 1: no one having house keys and adding those four locks
19:27
Speaker 1: to the door. Also, the family was told to learn
19:29
Speaker 1: the new dialect of Japanese that Rena had created. This way,
19:34
Speaker 1: no one would ever understand what they were talking about.
19:36
Speaker 1: It would kind of protect them even more from the
19:39
Speaker 1: evils of the outside world. Also, Rena made sure her
19:42
Speaker 1: family got rid of all of their telephones, their TVs,
19:45
Speaker 1: and their computers, And so Yoshika would sit in the
19:47
Speaker 1: kitchen for a bit longer thinking about how sad it
19:49
Speaker 1: was that she had lost this relationship with her sister,
19:52
Speaker 1: and you know, Yoshika had a lot of regret about
19:55
Speaker 1: what she had said about the Simian line. But eventually,
19:57
Speaker 1: like always, Yoshika just kind of pushed her f for
20:00
Speaker 1: Rena down, and before long, Yoshika was back to reading
20:03
Speaker 1: her book. For the next several weeks, Yoshika would see
20:06
Speaker 1: her brother Taka Hero sitting up against the door to
20:09
Speaker 1: Rena's bedroom more often than usual, having these kind of
20:13
Speaker 1: hushed conversations through the door with Rena. Also, Yoshika began
20:17
Speaker 1: to notice that Taka Hero was now cooking all of
20:20
Speaker 1: Rena's meals. Normally, their mother was the one who cooked
20:23
Speaker 1: Rena's food, but now Taka Hero seemed to have taken
20:26
Speaker 1: over that task entirely. As for Yoshika, because she was
20:29
Speaker 1: primarily in charge of being the one to constantly clean
20:32
Speaker 1: the house, that meant she was the one going into
20:35
Speaker 1: Rena's bedroom and collecting her dirty dishes. And as soon
20:38
Speaker 1: as Takahiro had begun being the cook for Rena, Yoshika
20:42
Speaker 1: began to notice that more and more food was being
20:45
Speaker 1: left on Rena's plates. Basically, Rena wasn't eating as much
20:48
Speaker 1: food as she normally did, and this started to worry Yoshika.
20:52
Speaker 1: Rena was already a very small person. She was four
20:54
Speaker 1: foot eleven inches tall, barely ninety pounds, and Yoshika worried that,
20:58
Speaker 1: you know, she really needs to eat. She's already so
21:01
Speaker 1: small she can't afford to miss meals. And then one
21:04
Speaker 1: day in the middle of May, Yoshika went into Rena's
21:08
Speaker 1: bedroom and she saw all of her dishes were basically
21:11
Speaker 1: completely filled with the food she had been given. She
21:13
Speaker 1: basically had not touched them, and Yoshika she really never
21:17
Speaker 1: actually spoke to Rena when she was in the bedroom,
21:20
Speaker 1: but this time she just couldn't help herself, and without
21:22
Speaker 1: even looking at Rena, Yoshika she gathered up the plates
21:25
Speaker 1: full of food and she said, Rena, you need to
21:28
Speaker 1: eat more of your food. Rena didn't say anything back,
21:31
Speaker 1: and Yoshika she just quickly turned and walked out of
21:33
Speaker 1: the room. But after that interaction, Takehiro would tell Yoshika
21:38
Speaker 1: that Rena doesn't want you going in her room ever again,
21:41
Speaker 1: and so from now on, the dishes that you would
21:43
Speaker 1: normally collect, Rena will place them right outside of the door.
21:46
Speaker 1: That way you don't have to go inside that room. Also,
21:50
Speaker 1: around the same time, Rena, who normally would only leave
21:53
Speaker 1: her bedroom to go use the bathroom, well, she began
21:56
Speaker 1: going to the bathroom exclusively at night when her family
22:00
Speaker 1: was asleep, to avoid any interaction with them, And so
22:03
Speaker 1: by this point Rena's interactions with her family were reduced
22:07
Speaker 1: to basically zero. By early August, Takahiro and Yoshika were
22:12
Speaker 1: being sent to the store more and more often by
22:15
Speaker 1: Rena to get more of these surgical spirits, the medical alcohol.
22:19
Speaker 1: Now neither Takahiro nor Yoshika had any idea what Rena
22:23
Speaker 1: was doing with these surgical spirits, but they knew it
22:26
Speaker 1: was their duty to support her, and so they kept
22:28
Speaker 1: buying them. And what they would do is they would
22:31
Speaker 1: come back home with these bottles and Takahiro would barely
22:34
Speaker 1: open Rena's door and he would tuck the bottle inside,
22:37
Speaker 1: and then Rena would take it. The door would shut
22:40
Speaker 1: and then Rena would never give them her empty bottle. Basically,
22:43
Speaker 1: the bottle went in and it stayed inside. Then, on
22:46
Speaker 1: August eighteenth of twenty eighteen, Takahiro and Rena appeared to
22:50
Speaker 1: get in some kind of a fight. Yoshika was in
22:52
Speaker 1: the kitchen and she saw that Takahiro was sitting against
22:55
Speaker 1: the door of Rena's bedroom and the two were having
22:57
Speaker 1: kind of a hushed conversation, and then its point, Taca
23:00
Speaker 1: Hero stood up, and he turned around and faced the
23:03
Speaker 1: door and kind of yelled into it, I told you
23:06
Speaker 1: your soul was not enough, and then Rena said something
23:09
Speaker 1: back to him, at which point Taca Hero said no, please, please,
23:13
Speaker 1: as if he was kind of begging with Rena to
23:15
Speaker 1: change her mind. And then before Yoshika could come over
23:18
Speaker 1: and ask Takahiro what was going on, Taca Hero just
23:21
Speaker 1: opened up Rena's bedroom door and walked inside, and suddenly
23:25
Speaker 1: the house went completely silent. Yoshika was too nervous to
23:28
Speaker 1: walk over and look inside of the room, and so
23:31
Speaker 1: she just stayed in the kitchen and listened, and for
23:33
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes it was absolute silence, and then Taca Hero
23:37
Speaker 1: walked out of Rena's bedroom, shut the door behind him,
23:40
Speaker 1: and he looked very calm, and at this point, Yoshika
23:42
Speaker 1: looked over at him and said, what's going on, and
23:45
Speaker 1: Taca Hero he would just smile and tell Yoshika that
23:48
Speaker 1: Rena's master work is nearly completed. And then Taka Hero
23:52
Speaker 1: asked Yoshika if she remembered when Rena had said, you know,
23:55
Speaker 1: at some point her master work was going to require
23:59
Speaker 1: some direct help from the family. But she said, you know,
24:02
Speaker 1: we'll know when the time is right for us to participate,
24:05
Speaker 1: and Yoshika would say, yes, you know, I remember that,
24:08
Speaker 1: and Takahiro said, well, the time is now. Then Takahiro
24:12
Speaker 1: told Yoshika that they had to go to the store
24:14
Speaker 1: and get more surgical spirits, and so, really, without questioning him,
24:18
Speaker 1: Yoshika went with him. They went to the store and
24:20
Speaker 1: they would purchase three times the normal amount of surgical
24:23
Speaker 1: spirits that they normally would and then when they got home,
24:26
Speaker 1: Takahiro alone would go into Rena's bedroom with these surgical spirits.
24:31
Speaker 1: He would shut the door behind him, and Yoshika just
24:33
Speaker 1: sat in the kitchen for about ten minutes until Takahiro
24:36
Speaker 1: came out again no longer carrying these surgical spirits. And
24:40
Speaker 1: he would come over to Yoshika and he would say,
24:43
Speaker 1: Rena is ready to reconcile with you. She wants you
24:46
Speaker 1: to sit by the door and talk to her, and
24:48
Speaker 1: if you do that, you can be more involved in
24:51
Speaker 1: creating her master work. And at this news, Yoshika felt
24:55
Speaker 1: a mixture of frustration and relief. She had never thought
24:58
Speaker 1: it was fair that Rena had so completely cut her
25:01
Speaker 1: off after that twenty thirteen Simian line joke she made
25:05
Speaker 1: while palm reading. Also, Rena had made Yoshika's life so
25:09
Speaker 1: difficult for so long. I mean, Yoshika had basically been
25:12
Speaker 1: forced to give up her dreams of playing the piano,
25:16
Speaker 1: and she had to give up her friends and all
25:17
Speaker 1: of her life ambitions and goals to just support Rena.
25:22
Speaker 1: But despite all of that, deep down, Yoshika missed Rena terribly.
25:27
Speaker 1: They did used to be so close. She wanted to
25:30
Speaker 1: have that relationship again. And so Yoshika walked over to
25:33
Speaker 1: Rena's closed bedroom door. She sat down against it, and
25:37
Speaker 1: at first she didn't say anything, and Rena didn't say
25:39
Speaker 1: anything either, But then at some point it was like
25:41
Speaker 1: the floodgates just opened, and Yoshika kind of began pouring
25:45
Speaker 1: her heart out about how sad she was about how
25:48
Speaker 1: her and Rena's relationship had really gone south and how
25:50
Speaker 1: she wanted to fix it. And now, normally, on the
25:54
Speaker 1: rare times that Yoshika would talk through the door to Rena,
25:58
Speaker 1: like when she was trying to open it up to
25:59
Speaker 1: drop some off or whatever it was, oftentimes Rena would
26:03
Speaker 1: just start banging on something inside of the room, kind
26:06
Speaker 1: of to tell Yoshika to stop talking and go away.
26:09
Speaker 1: But as Yoshika sat there pouring her heart out to
26:12
Speaker 1: Rena through the door, the one thing Yoshika noticed was
26:15
Speaker 1: there was no pounding coming from inside the room. Rena
26:18
Speaker 1: was listening to her. And then the next day, after
26:21
Speaker 1: Yoshika and Takahiro had gone to the store again and
26:24
Speaker 1: gotten more surgical spirits and brought them back to the house,
26:27
Speaker 1: instead of just Taka Hero being allowed to enter Rena's
26:30
Speaker 1: bedroom this time, Yoshika was allowed to join, and so
26:34
Speaker 1: Taka Hero and Yoshika they went into the dark bedroom
26:38
Speaker 1: and Rena was laying on the bed and they walked
26:40
Speaker 1: over to her, and Taka Hero showed Yoshika what they
26:43
Speaker 1: needed to do. It was the last step of this
26:46
Speaker 1: master work project that Rena was working on. They basically
26:49
Speaker 1: needed to rub these surgical spirits all over Rena's body. Now,
26:54
Speaker 1: Yoshika didn't really understand why they were doing this, but
26:57
Speaker 1: she respected that this was part of Rena's plan, and frankly,
27:00
Speaker 1: Yoshika was just happy to be included in creating this
27:04
Speaker 1: master work, and so she didn't really ask any questions.
27:07
Speaker 1: And so after the brother and sister had rubbed this
27:09
Speaker 1: alcohol all over Rena for about ten minutes, they walked
27:12
Speaker 1: back outside. They shut the door, and then Yoshika she
27:15
Speaker 1: stayed back and sat down against the door and kind
27:18
Speaker 1: of poured her heart out again to Rena. And it
27:20
Speaker 1: was just very therapeutic and in many ways, this was
27:23
Speaker 1: the first time that Yoshika was feeling happy again. I mean,
27:27
Speaker 1: she was finally starting to repair this relationship with Rena.
27:30
Speaker 1: And so over the next several weeks, this became Yoshika's
27:33
Speaker 1: new daily routine. Her and her brother would get all
27:36
Speaker 1: these surgical spirits, they'd come home, they'd rub them all
27:39
Speaker 1: over Rena, and then over the course of the day,
27:42
Speaker 1: Yoshika would stop by the door and chat with Rena
27:44
Speaker 1: through it, and that was it. And then on September
27:47
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, twenty eighteen, after Yoshika and Takahiro had applied
27:52
Speaker 1: these surgical spirits to Rena's body, Yoshika told Rena that
27:56
Speaker 1: she had a very special surprise for her. Yoshika was
27:58
Speaker 1: in a really good mood this stay because one, she
28:01
Speaker 1: was feeling really good about her new relationship with her sister,
28:04
Speaker 1: but also two, when she had gone to the pharmacy
28:07
Speaker 1: earlier with her brother. Normally they didn't have any interaction
28:11
Speaker 1: with the pharmacist who sold the surgical spirits, mostly because
28:14
Speaker 1: Yoshika and her brother did their best to kind of
28:17
Speaker 1: like hide themselves and make it very clear they were
28:20
Speaker 1: not looking to talk. But on this particular day, the
28:23
Speaker 1: pharmacist had been very talkative and was trying to talk
28:26
Speaker 1: to Yoshika, and Yoshika, you know, she decided she would
28:29
Speaker 1: talk back. Now, their conversation was not very substantive. Basically,
28:32
Speaker 1: the pharmacist finally had asked Yoshika, why are you buying
28:36
Speaker 1: all these surgical spirits, and Yoshika would say, oh, they're
28:39
Speaker 1: for my sister Rina, and you know, she needs more
28:41
Speaker 1: and more of them every day, and you know, she's
28:43
Speaker 1: working on something special and we don't really know what
28:46
Speaker 1: it is, but this is part of it, and we
28:48
Speaker 1: know whatever she's doing, it's going to be worth it.
28:50
Speaker 1: And so even though this conversation seems kind of meaningless
28:54
Speaker 1: for Yoshika, who had virtually no contact with other people,
28:57
Speaker 1: it was great having that little talk. And so when
29:00
Speaker 1: she came home, she just felt ready to do something
29:03
Speaker 1: special for Rena. And so after Yoshika and Takahiro had
29:06
Speaker 1: left Rena's bedroom after applying these surgical spirits, Yoshika went
29:10
Speaker 1: to go give Rena her surprise, and so Yoshika she
29:13
Speaker 1: walked over to the family piano that was not far
29:16
Speaker 1: from Rena's bedroom door, and yoshikah she was nervous, but
29:20
Speaker 1: she sat down on the bench and she opened up
29:21
Speaker 1: the lid and she placed her fingers on the keys.
29:24
Speaker 1: Yoshika's big surprise was she was going to play a
29:27
Speaker 1: song called the Waltz of the Flowers, which is a
29:29
Speaker 1: famous piece of classical music that was inspired by the
29:33
Speaker 1: composer's love for his sister, and so Yoshika thought this
29:36
Speaker 1: was the perfect song to finally play in this house
29:40
Speaker 1: for Rena, she'll see that I love her so much,
29:42
Speaker 1: and so Yoshika she began to play the song, and
29:45
Speaker 1: as she did, she was constantly listening to see if
29:48
Speaker 1: Reena would start banging on something to tell Yoshika to stop,
29:52
Speaker 1: but again she didn't. It was quiet, and so Yoshika
29:55
Speaker 1: she played this beautiful song. And then when it was
29:57
Speaker 1: all over again, Yoshika's listening careful for Rena to yell
30:01
Speaker 1: out or be mad that she's playing this loud music
30:04
Speaker 1: in the house, but it was just quiet, and so
30:06
Speaker 1: again Yoshika just felt this closeness to her sister, and
30:09
Speaker 1: before long Yoshika felt tears of happiness coming down her cheeks.
30:13
Speaker 1: But then as Yoshika closed the lid of the piano,
30:16
Speaker 1: she did hear a banging, but it wasn't coming from
30:19
Speaker 1: Rena's bedroom, It was coming from the front door. And
30:21
Speaker 1: then a moment later, Yoshika heard someone scream from outside
30:25
Speaker 1: the front door. Police open up, but before Yoshika could
30:29
Speaker 1: go to the door to open it, her mother had
30:31
Speaker 1: ran to the door. She opened all four locks, but
30:33
Speaker 1: then only opened it a crack and tried to yell
30:36
Speaker 1: at the police to go away, go away, but the police.
30:39
Speaker 1: They were kind of pushing on the door, trying to
30:40
Speaker 1: get the mother to get out of the way, and
30:42
Speaker 1: Yoshika she kind of moved over and looked through the crack,
30:45
Speaker 1: and she saw it wasn't just a couple of police officers.
30:48
Speaker 1: It was a whole army of police officers and firefighters
30:51
Speaker 1: and EMTs. There was an ambulance and then before long,
30:55
Speaker 1: the police officer that had been yelling, you know, open up,
30:58
Speaker 1: he finally just pushed and got the door open all
31:00
Speaker 1: the way. And then a swarm of people in uniforms
31:03
Speaker 1: flooded the home. And as soon as all these officers
31:06
Speaker 1: were in the house, they immediately began opening up every
31:09
Speaker 1: door like they were looking for something. And then finally
31:12
Speaker 1: they got to Rena's bedroom and they opened the door,
31:14
Speaker 1: and as soon as they did, Yoshika watched as the
31:16
Speaker 1: officers just stopped at the doorway and they began cussing
31:20
Speaker 1: and yelling and turning their faces away. And then the
31:23
Speaker 1: officers went into Rena's bedroom, and then a minute later
31:26
Speaker 1: they began talking on their radio, and then EMTs came
31:29
Speaker 1: into the house with a stretcher. They went into Rena's bedroom,
31:33
Speaker 1: and then before long Yoshika, Takahiro, and their mother watched
31:36
Speaker 1: as the stretcher came out again with these officers and EMTs,
31:40
Speaker 1: and on the stretcher was Rena, and she looked terrible.
31:44
Speaker 1: Her eyes were sunken back in her head, and her
31:46
Speaker 1: skin was so pale it was practically see through. I
31:49
Speaker 1: mean really, she just kind of looked like a skeleton.
31:52
Speaker 1: The real story of what happened inside of that family's
31:55
Speaker 1: home would quickly become international news, and not because Rena
32:00
Speaker 1: was secretly creating a master work of art in her bedroom.
32:04
Speaker 1: Here's what really happened. Rena stopped eating food in April
32:09
Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen. She would say that the only thing
32:11
Speaker 1: she needed to be nourished was her visionary soul, and
32:15
Speaker 1: so basically, because she had this visionary soul, she didn't
32:18
Speaker 1: need food. That was the conversation that Yoshika had overheard
32:22
Speaker 1: between Tacahiro and Rena. When Takahiro was saying, only your soul,
32:26
Speaker 1: how how well he was trying to figure out how
32:29
Speaker 1: Rena was going to survive by being nourished by her soul.
32:33
Speaker 1: It didn't make any sense. Fast forward four months to
32:36
Speaker 1: August eighteenth, and again Yoshika had overheard her brother and
32:40
Speaker 1: her sister talking through the bedroom door, except on this
32:43
Speaker 1: day it sounded like Tacahiro was fighting with Rena, because
32:46
Speaker 1: at some point he had stood up and yelled through
32:48
Speaker 1: the door, I told you your soul wasn't enough, And
32:51
Speaker 1: then he had busted inside of Rena's bedroom and stayed
32:54
Speaker 1: in there in silence for fifteen minutes, only to come
32:57
Speaker 1: back out again and very calmly tell you, Shika that
33:00
Speaker 1: don't worry, Rena is nearing the end of her master
33:03
Speaker 1: work and we just need to go out and get
33:05
Speaker 1: her more surgical spirits. Well, it would turn out the
33:08
Speaker 1: reason taca Hero was mad and yelled through the door
33:11
Speaker 1: at Rena is because he was trying to talk to
33:14
Speaker 1: her through the door and she wasn't talking back, and
33:17
Speaker 1: he suspected it was because she wasn't eating, and so
33:19
Speaker 1: he had yelled at her about that, and then barged
33:22
Speaker 1: into her room only to find Rena totally unresponsive, not moving,
33:26
Speaker 1: not talking, nothing. And so we just stood there wondering
33:29
Speaker 1: what to do. And so as Takahiro is standing there,
33:32
Speaker 1: it clicks for him that now is the time. Now's
33:35
Speaker 1: the time to get involved. And so Takahiro left the bedroom.
33:38
Speaker 1: He grabbed Yoshika, they went to the pharmacy, they got
33:41
Speaker 1: more surgical spirits. They came back, and taca Hero alone
33:45
Speaker 1: went into Rena's bedroom and covered her head to toe
33:48
Speaker 1: in these spirits because that was something she had wanted
33:50
Speaker 1: him to do before, and he believed that that's what
33:53
Speaker 1: she needed right now because she can't talk, she can't move,
33:56
Speaker 1: she needs more of these spirits. That's going to help
33:58
Speaker 1: her visionary soul nourish her while she completes this master work.
34:03
Speaker 1: And for the next month, taka Hero and Yoshika would
34:06
Speaker 1: continue to apply these spirits to Rena's body, believing they
34:10
Speaker 1: were helping her complete her master work. On September twenty fifth,
34:13
Speaker 1: when Yoshika and Takeahiro were at the pharmacy getting more spirits,
34:17
Speaker 1: the reason this pharmacist finally struck up a conversation with
34:21
Speaker 1: Yoshika is because over time, the pharmacist had noticed that
34:25
Speaker 1: every time they came in to buy these surgical spirits,
34:28
Speaker 1: they smelled so bad, and on this particular day when
34:31
Speaker 1: they came in, the stench was just overwhelming, and so
34:34
Speaker 1: the pharmacist finally had asked Yoshika, you know, like, what
34:37
Speaker 1: are these surgical spirits for? And Yoshika would give this
34:40
Speaker 1: totally weird answer about how the spirits were for her sister,
34:44
Speaker 1: and she was working on this master work in her
34:46
Speaker 1: bedroom and it was all going to be worth it.
34:49
Speaker 1: And so when Yoshika and Takahiro had left that day,
34:52
Speaker 1: the pharmacist was just so weirded out and alarmed by
34:55
Speaker 1: them that he called the police. And when the police
34:58
Speaker 1: arrived at the family's home, they discovered that Rena was
35:02
Speaker 1: not building a master work in her bedroom. She was
35:05
Speaker 1: just dead in her bed and had been for six weeks.
35:08
Speaker 1: Rena died around August eighteenth, which is the day that
35:11
Speaker 1: Taka Hero came into the room and discovered her unresponsive,
35:15
Speaker 1: which meant there was never any reconciliation happening between Yoshika
35:19
Speaker 1: and Rena. It's unclear why taka Hero had told Yoshika, hey,
35:23
Speaker 1: you know, Rena's ready to reconcile with you, because again,
35:26
Speaker 1: Rena was dead at the time, so there's no way
35:28
Speaker 1: she would have said anything to him. And so when
35:30
Speaker 1: Yoshika was having these supposed heart to hearts through the
35:33
Speaker 1: door with her sister or playing music, for her. That
35:36
Speaker 1: wasn't real. The only real thing that was happening is
35:39
Speaker 1: Yoshika and Takahiro. From August eighteenth until the end of September,
35:44
Speaker 1: when the police busted into their home, they would spend
35:47
Speaker 1: nearly every day rubbing this weird medical alcohol all over
35:51
Speaker 1: their dead sister's body because that's what they believe she wanted,
35:54
Speaker 1: when in reality, all this alcohol was doing was actually
35:58
Speaker 1: mummifying her body. Ka, Takahiro, and their mother were all
36:02
Speaker 1: charged with preventing a proper and decent burial. As for Rena,
36:06
Speaker 1: her cause of death could not actually be determined, but
36:09
Speaker 1: based on what she looked like, they assumed she died
36:12
Speaker 1: from starvation. The court would eventually drop the charges against
36:15
Speaker 1: the family, saying that basically the family was too mentally
36:19
Speaker 1: ill to stand trial, and this was because the court
36:22
Speaker 1: had discovered that Yoshika, Takahiro, and their mother actually had
36:26
Speaker 1: not accepted that Rena was dead. They believed she was
36:29
Speaker 1: actually still alive, that all the work they had done
36:32
Speaker 1: rubbing those spirits on her had nourished her soul and
36:35
Speaker 1: she was still working on this master work. And as
36:38
Speaker 1: of a few years ago, the family is still living
36:41
Speaker 1: in that same cottage, and it's not clear if they
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Speaker 1: ever actually came to understand that Rena was in fact dead.
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