Ep. 7: Watanuki and Doumeki investigate a motionless woman in a private garden while Neko-Musume draws water.

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Neko-Musume tasks Watanuki with drawing water from a well in exchange for an egg. Watanuki trespasses into a private garden to access the well, where he observes a woman sitting motionless at a high window. Upon returning with Doumeki, the woman remains in the same position. Watanuki determines she is not a spirit because Doumeki can see her with his normal eye. Watanuki makes a pinky promise to Himawari not to overwork himself. During the next water collection, his little finger hurts, and the wrapper of his container is blown into the woman's window. Doumeki and Watanuki enter the silent house and find the woman, who falls inert to the floor in a gust of wind. Watanuki assumes she is a doll, but Doumeki identifies her as a corpse. Watanuki argues that a corpse would have putrefied in the summer heat, yet Doumeki notes that modern preservatives prevent rotting. Meanwhile, Neko-Musume retrieves a dead kitten from the nearly empty well and comments on the miasma around Watanuki's little finger, suggesting something is strange about Himawari.