This is the urban legend in Japan about the strange puzzle.
Posts of 2ch BBS
These are the posts in The Occult BBS of 2ch (equivalent to /x/).
Sunday
The other day, my girlfriend and I drove to date to antique shops tour. She likes antique very much.
I also like second hand clothes etc… so I collected them, old NES Roms and so on.
The thing we would buy were different but the things for sale were interesting for each other. We could buy some bargain and got in a good mood.
Find The Rag Antique Shop
Driving for a while, we found a rag shop.
“Wow! Surprisingly, the Golden Version of “Obake no Q-taro” may be sleeping in such a shop.”
↑the Golden Version of “Obake no Q-taro”
She looked at me with a cool look but it did not matter to me. We went there.
That was very very small shop. The sales were mainly secondhand books. There were little secondhand clothes or furniture.
NES Roms… “Kyu-Kyoku Harikiri Stadium” This was only rom and covered with dust. I thought it was damn. So I tried to say let’s go out, but THEN
↑”Kyu-Kyoku Harikiri Stadium”
Strange Puzzle
“Ah!”
She shouted for amazed. I ran to her quickly… I found her standing in front of the basket in which many old stuffed dolls and ornaments.
“Do you find some bargain?”
I asked.
“This is Amazing…”
She said and pick The ornament of regular icosahedrons. It was buried in many goods.
Thinking now, it was strange that she could find what was at the bottom of the basket. She should not have seen it. It may have already begun mysterious things.
“What is this? Rare thing?”
“I don’t know and have not seen this, but… I might buy…”
Okay, okay. I also began to think it was great… it had exquisite calm color… It seemed not to be bad as an object.
“If it is not so expensive, why don’t you buy it?”
I said.
We brought the icosahedrons to cashier. The shabby old man was sitting with reading the old book.
RINFONE?
“Excuse me, How much is this?”
I did not miss… His facial expressions. He was absolutely surprised to see the icosahedrons. However, soon, his face got normal.
“Well…oh…this… how much… well, please wait a minutes.”
After saying so, he went into back of the store. I fragmentarily heard quarrel of him and his wife(?). After a while, he came with a pale yellow letter.
“That is the toy. Named “RINFONE”. Details are written in this manual.”
He open the pale yellow letter. That seemed very old.
In the manual, the picture of the icosahedrons was. And “RINFONE”. The manual explained that the shape of it “bear” → “hawk” →”fish”.
I could not understand that language but I could get it because it explained with pictures. The old man said it was Latin.
“This transforms into various animals like this. At first, wrap this with your both hands and stroke like making a rice-ball.”
She did so. Then,
Click!
hearing it, and one side of that popped.
“Wow! Amazing!”
“Turn or Pull the popped one.”
She did so again. Next time, other one side popped.
“Amazing. This is like a puzzle! You should do too!”
It is difficult to explain that structure. If I say, It was like a “Transformer” toy. A cassette tape transforms into a robot, a truck transforms into a robot and so on. “RINFONE” was same as these. If you pull or turn somewhere of the icosahedrons, it transforms into “bear”, “hawk”, “fish” and so on.
Already she was a prisoner of it. I also thought it was the great toy.
“Well… so… hh… How much is this?”
She asked with afraid.
“Okay… This is very old antique. However we have forgot that it is here. Well… How about for ￥10,000? If you sell this in the internet, you may get some 100 thousands yen. “
However, she was good at discounting. At last, it became ￥6,500 and we got out in good mood.
The next day was Monday, so after eating dinner in the restaurant, we went home each other.
Monday
It was Monday. After finishing work and coming home, I got her call.
“You! This is Amazing! This is very great puzzle and becomes animal shapes! When I working, I always think about that. I can’t do work at all. It is more interesting than the damn video game.”
She said excitedly and unilaterally. After turning off the phone, she sent me an e-mail with a picture.
In that picture, I could see her both hands holding “RINFONE” some sides of which popped and looked like a “bear” head and two legs. I thought it was the good toy and sent her such content e-mail. At last, I fell asleep.
Tuesday
The next day, I got an e-mail from her when I was driving home from my office.
“It is really exciting. I played “RINFONE” all night yesterday. Finally, I did it! The Bear form came! Please come to my house to see this!”
With a wry smile, I changed my course to her house.
I arrived there.
“Hey, you said that you stayed up all night, didn’t you? Did you go to work today?”
I asked.
“Yes, yes. Instead, I drank coffee too much and feel bad now.”
She answered.
I found “RINEFONE” which looked like “bear” with four legs.
“Wow! It’s really fantastic! I want to know the structure more.”
“It is fantastic, isn’t it? I’m really into this. Next, this will transform from a “bear” to a “hawk”, won’t this? I will start now.”
“Hey bro, you should not stay up all night today. You should start tomorrow.”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
She said. We ate some dinner and do xxx (I’m sorry…) I went home. Oh, I forgot to say that the size of “RINFONE” was like it of a soft ball.
Wednesday
Wednesday. On going back home from office, this time, I sent an e-mail to her.
“Did you sleep properly? …etc”
Then
“Yes, I did. I’m looking forward to do “RINEFONE” sequel.”
She replied.
And I think it was about 11:00 pm. When I played PS2 game excitedly, I got an e-mail with a picture.
“A “hawk” has come! This looks like a real hawk! The man who create this is genius!!”
I opened the picture. In that, there was “RINEFONE” which form is a hawk spreading wings. I was amateur but I could see it was elaborate. The hawk seemed to flap now. Of course, it was a toy. There were some bumps however it was really elaborate.
“Amazing! What remains is only a “fish”. but you should not be so crazy. Do carefree.”
I replied and fell asleep.
Thursday
Thursday night, after taking a bath, I got contact. That’s from her.
“Did you call me a while ago?”
“No. What happened?”
“About five minutes ago, I have contact every 30 seconds. I answered it, heard only some noise like a lot of speech in a city, and soon it was disconnected. Usually the screen shows the numbers, “Withheld number”, or “Public”. However, this time, the screen showed “Over There”. I have not registered such a name. Creepy…”
“Okay…Should I go there?”
“No thanks. I’ll sleep with my cellphone off.”
“I see. It may be something like crossing. By the way, how is “RINEFONE”? “Fish”?”
“Well, that will come soon. After my completing, do you want to play?”
“Yeah, I’m looking forward.”
Friday
Friday. I worried about strange contact to her. So I called her and went to her house.
“RINEFONE” had got almost a “fish” form. All she had to do was to add tail fin and dorsal fin.
“You got a strange contact at noon again, didn’t you?”
“Yes… I was eating bread in lunch break…then I got a strange contact. However screen showed “Withheld number” this time so I answered. I heard speech of many people and it was disconnected.”
“As expected, it seems crossing or mischief… Tomorrow, shall we go to the cellphone shop?”
“Yeah, thank you!”
After that, we played “RINFONE” to add tail fin and dorsal fin. But it was very hard. I thought it was because this was the final stage of “RINFONE”. We struggled hard but could not solve. At last, I was getting sleepy and the next day was Saturday. I decided to stay in her house.
I had nightmare. Many naked people were crawling up from the dark valley floor. I climbed the valley desperately to escape from them. A little, a little more for the top. I will be saved. I put my hand on the top…
THEN The woman grabbed my leg and screemed
“Take Me!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
I woke up getting sweaty. It was about 5:00 am yet. I seemed not be able to sleep again, so I waited her to wake up while purring on the bed.
Saturday
Saturday. We went to the cellphone shop but could not solve the problem.
Then we decided to go to the fortune-teller for a change. The fortune-teller called “Aunt Cat” is so famous that many people visits her for fortune telling. She keeps many cats and divines at not the office but her house. However we had to make a reservation. I called her and could book the next day. I stay at the hotel in this day.
Sunday
Sunday. Afternoon we arrived at “Aunt Cat” house. I rang the doorbell.
“Hello?”
“Hello, I am XXX who made a reservation yesterday.”
“The door is opened. Please come in.”
We went into the entrance door and found a cat on the floor. He intimidated us soon after finding us. We go through the corridor and entered the room. “Aunt Cat” was there. Many cats were surrounding her.
The moment of entering there, all of cats also intimidated us. They ran away to scatter. I felt bad. In trouble, My girlfriend and I looked each other…
“Sorry…Please go home.”
“Aunt Cat” said. I felt a little anger, so I asked what she meant.
“Cats react to such kind of things sensitively. This is why I keep them. Cats sort out the people who I can divine and can not divine. This is the first time that they react like that.”
I got a flash of it for some reason. I said to her about the strange contacts to my girlfriend and the nightmare that I had seen. THEN…
“I can see… The object like animal… behind of your girlfriend. Throw it away now!”
She said unwillingly. I asked what is that, what is happening…
“Please go home. I want to say and see nothing any more.”
She said and turned away.
My girlfriend complexion was getting pale. I asked persistently…
“What is that?! Is that cursed like some antique?”
I did not stop until getting the answer. Then aunt stood up…
“That is compressed minimal Hell!! That is the gate of Hell so Throw Away!! GET OUT!!”
“However, the service charge…”
“NO THANKS!!”
Her face in shouting was most horrible for me. lol
After arriving home, we wrapped RINFONE and its manual in newspaper and threw them away. They were picked into a garbage truck. Since then, mysterious thing have not happened.
Sequel
In a few weeks, when I went to her house again, she said…
“Well… “RINFONE” spelling is R I N F O N E… It might be perversion… Sorting these alphabet, it becomes “INFERNO”…”
“…HAHAHA! That is perversion!”
“If we had completed “fish”, what would have happen…?”
“…HAHAHA…”