Tale 78 — The man in a snow cloak and a portent of death
Chozo, on his way home from a night out, met a man wearing a snow cloak before the gate. When he looked at him with suspicion, the man vanished quickly toward the hedge. Later, around the same time, it became known that a person from Niibari village had fallen from his horse and died on the way home from the beach.
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