Episode Title:
Thunderous Visitor.
Episode Description:
Ryousuke, a young man who has had a childhood fear of thunder recalls how his mother once told him when he was five, that she will protect him from thunder. Five months later, she moved out, so now he lives with his father. Suddenly, he experiences a blackout in his apartment. Suddenly, the phone rings, startling him. Wondering who could be calling him at this time of night, he answers it. It's his mother. Angry, Ryousuke demands why she's calling him now after all these years, to which she responds, "It's because you remembered me." to his confusion. She explains how he remembered how he once clung to her during a thunderstorm when he was little. He asks how she knows that, when suddenly, during a flash of lightning, he sees the silhouette of a person outside his balcony window. His mother tells him to let her in, making him wonder if that's her. She tells him to let her in, and wants to surprise his father. She starts knocking on the glass, demanding him to let her in. Ryousuke demands why she left him and his father. But when he pulls back the curtains, he sees not his mother, but his father. He lets his father in, who explains he forgot the key. His father says he wasn't the one knocking on the window as he just got here. That's when the two men realize there's someone else in the room: Ryousuke's mother, much to his father's shock, who demands to know who let her in. Ryousuke explains she called and wanted to be let in. In a trembling voice, Ryousuke's father says that's not possible. Ryousuke demands his father to tell him what he did to his mother. That's when Ryousuke sees it: the rope marks around his mother's neck. "See?" she says. "Your dad...was surprised, wasn't he?" The story ends with a clap of thunder...
