Suddenly, a commotion erupts In front of a news crew reporting on Nakagaki's disappearance: a young man has scaled the wall to one of the holes. Despite Owaki's continued skepticism, she insists that it was made for her thousands of years ago, and when she goes inside, she will be trapped just like Nakagaki. When Owaki awakes, Nakagaki still hasn't been found, but Yoshida tells him that she has found her own hole at the foot of the mountain. While camping at the fault overnight, Owaki has a nightmare in which he is Nakagaki, trapped deep inside the mountain and unable to move because the hole has been deformed by the earthquake. A rescue squad is dispatched, but it has to retreat after getting no more than five meters inside the hole. The scientists' equipment can find no trace of Nakagaki. Nakagaki reveals that he has finally found his own hole, removing his clothes and disappearing into it before Owaki can stop him. Most of the people who have come to the mountain are looking for their own holes.

Owaki is skeptical, but another man called Nakagaki overhears and says that the same thing happened to him. Ever since she laid eyes on the hole, she has had a strange feeling that it was meant for her to enter. She explains that she came because she saw something on TV: a hole that she swears was her exact silhouette. Owaki is distracted from the speculation when he notices Yoshida looking for something. The accumulation of soil over the centuries eventually sealed up the entrances, but they have no way of knowing why the holes were made or who would have the technology to do it, especially since they appear to be thousands of years old.

They can, however, determine that the holes are not natural and must have been dug from the inside out. Scientists examining the holes announce that there is no way to find out how deep into the mountain the holes go.

The former assumes that they are both here to see the fault, which has captured the attention of the global press. Following the sound of voices to the fault, the two of them marvel at the strange sight before them: countless human-shaped holes in a rock face exposed by the earthquake. On the slopes of the mountain, two hikers meet a man named Owaki and a woman named Yoshida. The Enigma of Amigara Fault is a short story included at the end of Gyo.įollowing an earthquake in an unnamed prefecture of Japan, a fault is discovered on Amigara Mountain, very close to the epicenter of the quake.

Smashed by junji ito