How could a perfectly healthy person just vanish into thin air in front of so many eyes?
Earlier, Minamoto Tamako and Fushimi Roku were approached by a Dancing Girl who was selling "Fate Bells". She claimed that the bells, tied with red and white strings, held a special meaning: by intertwining one's red string with another's white string and silently chanting the other's name, it could forge bonds or maintain lasting friendships...
The bell wasn't expensive, just a thousand yen.
Fushimi Roku immediately realized that they were being seen as an easy couple to exploit. He was about to refuse, but Minamoto Tamako bought the Fate Bell before he could say anything, to symbolize their 'everlasting friendship'.
It was in just this momentary distraction that Taira Sakurako disappeared.
