Full Moon

(Translated by Saya)

The following is the account of my mother's experience...

Five years ago, my mother was working for my father's business partner.
Her boss, the company director, would become very irritable at times, and lose his temper at the slightest provacation.
Someone would tell him, "please make sure you look through these documents,"  and he would somehow blow up, and start taking his anger on the objects around him, and sometimes even start throwing them around.

One day, my mother was on her way home thinking "he was in a bad mood today too," when she noticed the full moon in the sky.
The same thing happened the following month, and the month after that; and she realised that when her boss became irritable it was invariably on a full moon day.
In time, she started thinking, "I don't want to go to work tomorrow because it's a full moon day."

But the boss died suddenly, and it was not because of illness or an accident. He had seemed perfectly robust and healthy up until the time of his death.
Apparently, he had a heart attack. People conjectured that perhaps he had been working too hard.


The day before he died, the boss told his wife, "I'm going to die tomorrow."
His wife was thinking "what is he saying...?" and said aloud, "please stop making a joke like that," and they didn't discuss any more about it at the time.

A few hours later, his wife still hadn’t been able to take her mind off what he said, and so asked him,
"Why did you say you were going to die tomorrow?"
The boss replied, "Huh? I didn't say such a thing."
I heard he looked completely baffled.
However, he penned a sort of last will that night.

After the boss died, my mother had a dream about him.
The boss came up to my mother who was sleeping, and asked,
"Why isn't there my desk in the office anymore?"
My mother replied, "Boss, you are dead."
But the boss said,
"I'm not dead. I'm not dead."

One day, my mother was having a chat with her colleagues, and their talk turned to their late boss.
My mother told them about her dream, and discovered her colleagues and the boss's wife also had the same dream.
He appeared to them and repeated the same phrase: "I'm not dead. I'm not dead."

I felt chills when I heard her story.
My mother told me that even now the boss sometimes appears in her dream and says, "I'm not dead. I'm not dead."

By the way, the day the boss died was also a full moon day.