Tokyo Yōkai

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Tokyo Yōkai

One night a drunken businessman takes a shortcut down a famously haunted alleyway in old Tokyo. It is haunted by the yōkai, the Slit-Mouthed Woman. Sliced from ear to ear and then killed by her husband, the poor hideous creature asks the same question of all those she meets: “Do you think I’m pretty?”

On this night she stepped out of the dark shadows of the alley and stood before the businessman. His mouth went dry, and his heart raced as she asked the question - “Do you think I’m pretty?”

He knew that if he said “No” she would kill him.
So he answered, “Yes”.

“Then I will make you as pretty as me,” said the Slit-Mouthed Woman and she carved him a new mouth that went from ear to ear.

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from Tokyo Yōkai, released December 21, 2023

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