1st DayToday, I reunited with Iro.
In the forest behind my home, incidents in which the whereabouts of people who entered became unknown seemed to be frequent, and entry into the forest was forbidden. But I moved here because I want to study the forest's flora and fauna. So, I trespassed into the forest.
And there was Iro. It was a reunion after 3 years. Iro was no longer human.
When our eyes met in the forest, Iro was eating a woman's corpse. Upon noticing me, she jumped out and straddled me. I thought maybe I would be eaten, too. However, the attack never came. On the contrary, she pressed and nuzzled her cheek against my body.
In that instant I thought of several things. Firstly, that the people who entered the forest became lost was without a doubt because they had become Iro's food. And, why had her form become like this?