Yonezu then showed the protagonist’s grandfather a slab that was made of green jade. Strangely, Yonezu was covered with a coat which covered most of his body despite it being summer, and he seemed to be suffering from malaise. In the diary, his grandfather wrote that as he wrote it at that point in time, he met his friend Yonezu, who fought in a war with him thirty years ago. After telling his friend of this bizarre event, they investigate his grandfather’s death by looking at his diary. He then remembered how his grandfather, before his death, was completely covered with similar holes that stretched from head to toe. The one time she was outside, she laughed as she pointed at a place in her backyard, and the protagonist noted that she had holes in her arms. The next story which is told directly connects to the title of the book, for it is titled “The Chill.” In this story, the protagonist recollects the past, noting how the house next to him seemed to house a mentally unstable girl, Rina, who almost never went outside. After she is dead, she and the friend she previously murdered start singing the same song the record played, and the new owner of the record murmurs that the melody belongs to the other world. He causes the protagonist to accidentally fall to her death.
As the protagonist left the restaurant, the person who told her the story began chasing her, having fallen under the spell of the record. Those at the scene were dumbfounded, as she had no heartbeat, but they recorded it nonetheless.
She quickly died, and after her death, she began to sing a haunting tune. Although she was grievously injured and near death, she asked to be carried into the studio. When the day finally came, she was struck by a car. The singer of the record was not famous, only singing at a nightclub, and hoped to make a debut. When the record is finally played in a restaurant, one of the guests tells the protagonist the story of the used record. She then murders her friend by accident in an attempt to protect the record, and struggles to find a place with the necessary technology that can play the record. The protagonist herself becomes so enamored with the tune that she steals it from her friend and is subsequently pursued. It is strangely entrancing, and it causes whoever listens to it to become obsessed. Shiver begins with the story “Used Record.” In this tale, the protagonist comes across a used record when she visits her friend.
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