Crying Walls

## Summary

Anton, Yukiko and Cherith arrive at a residential house located in a rural area far from the cities.

Once there, a very old lady attends them and shows them to their rooms. This lady tells them a little about the place but the characters do not seem to be very interested until the old lady mentions to them that something strange is going on with the house and that there is a very big sadness on its ceilings. Although they do not understand the owner's words very well, they assume that they are the ramblings of a person who can no longer think clearly.

As the girls go to sleep, Cherith begins to feel an overwhelming sense of sadness, and lets Yukiko know. Yukiko, not wanting to pry too much, asks her why she has let her know that so suddenly if it could be something very personal, but Cherith tells her that she doesn't quite know why. After going to bed, Cherith wakes up and realizes that something seems to be dripping from somewhere, so she directs her gaze to the wall and notices that a black liquid is gushing from cracks in the wall that were not there before. Cherith then wakes Yukiko and they both realize that the room is flooding because the leaking water droplets have started to gain more pressure. This causes the water level to begin to rise and reach the level of their beds. So they try to escape through the door but find that both the door and the windows are locked and they can't get out.

A rat that was walking along the railing slips and falls into the black water, seconds after that it is devoured by an entity that emerged from the bottom. This demonic-looking entity has an elongated, pointed face, with horns that end in a cartilaginous spiky shape. It has two extendable arms, one of which has a lobster-like claw and the other has two extensions of cartilage similar to the fins of a fish but which functioned as extremely long tentacles.

After a while of struggling, Cherith and Yukiko, in desperation, manage to open the window of the room by breaking the latch that kept it closed, but discover to their horror that water remains inside the room, even though the window could now let the water escape. Likewise, the water does not seem to drain out of the space between the bedroom door and the wooden floor either.

Since the room was on the first floor, and there was no object below to break their fall, the girls could not decide whether it was a good idea to jump from that height. But they finally decide to do so when the entity rushes towards them to attack them, only to realise that something was preventing them from jumping out of the window. The liquid in which they were submerged was not just water, it was a liquid produced by the entity that was attacking them, the product of an illusion of all the negative emotions accumulated in that house. But thanks to its dark colouring, the girls could not see that the entity had a cartilage arm. The entity held the girls by the ankles under the water and tried to drown them at the bottom of the flood. As the liquid reached their faces, Yukiko initially thought that the weight of all that water might shatter the floor and that they might fall with the water into the main room below theirs.

Cherith uses the pages of her book to seal the places on the walls where the black water drips, which seems to work at first. Yukiko climbs onto a railing on the ceiling as she watches the creature swim back and forth in search of prey, devouring everything in its path. The water continues to rise and at some point Cherith falls into the water and seems to have been caught by the creature. Meanwhile, Anton sleeps in the continuous room where nothing seems to be happening as he is not woken up by the noises from the girls' room. When all seemed lost, Yukiko realises that Cherith had survived and had managed to reach a piece of furniture that she used as a platform. With a defiant look, Cherith tells Yukiko that the water level was dropping without the entity noticing. Cherith tells Yukiko that she reached the bottom of the water and saw how another version of herself was sleeping in a dry room but that her other self was being attacked by the dark vines they had seen earlier during their dream. So it looked like it might all be a dream, but they would have to wake up soon.

In the end the entity drowns in its own anguish and dies. The girls believe that the entity had the ability to appear through the feelings of sadness they both had at the loss of a loved one. The next morning, Anton asks the girls what happened because they were soaking wet and they tell him that nothing happened.

The episode reflects the feeling of desperation and anguish of the people who used that room and had problems in their lives, this is compared to the feeling of drowning and lack of oxygen. The entity that inhabits that room was born from those feelings.