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Chapter 2 - Chapter:2 Development

Over three nights, Mei wandered through ancient lanes and mossy temples, her camera clicking in soft intervals. She captured waves breaking under moonlight, statues glistening wet, candles flickering at roadside shrines. But the woman from the shop window began appearing in her photographs — always behind her, head slightly bowed, eyes closed as though asleep.On the second evening, Mei developed her film under the inn's weak lightbulb. Every frame bore the same figure — pale, serene, and watching. Hana saw the contact sheets and gasped. "That is Lady Akane," she whispered, telling the old story of a bride who drowned herself in 1862 after her lover died in a landslide while building the Great Buddha's terrace. Her spirit was said to roam the shoreline until found by one who could see her clearly.Mei dismissed it as coincidence. Yet when she attempted to photograph herself by the tide, the lens clouded. In the faint shimmer of the moonlit sea, another reflection rose beside her

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