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masculine clothes, and reveals that her gash has produced a small limb resembling the beetle's. He is rendered unconscious from a drink that Laura poured and wakes to find that he is tied up and now has a small gash on his hand. Laura arrives and removes a small egg from it. Back in the present it is now revealed that Eric is now covered with gashes and appears to have been mutated into an egg carrier of sorts. Laura arrives with a group of larger people-sized beetles (presumed to be her offspring) that enter the room and serve him food. Eric states that he wishes Laura still loved him or "at least pretended to".
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mistress comes and slices his head off. He angrily tosses the album into the fire, but the pages fly out and he has to put them out resulting in his foot going through the floorboards and him losing a shoe. He decides to venture upstairs where the mistress' spirit seems to follow him. He comes to a closet with shoes and as he tries to put one on as a replacement, the closet door suddenly closes behind him. He discovers a
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and other entities resembling her classmates. When she comes to, she is clearly possessed by the spirit of Hajime. She returns home, picks up a knife and presumably murders her family. As Sumako awakens, the scientist asks her if she saw the end of her dream. When she answers in the negative, the
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in her arm, but she seems composed and nonchalant about it. Nevertheless, Eric bandages her arm. Laura soon becomes obsessed with cooking food, having sex with Eric, and begins acting more dominant. When Eric returns from class, he discovers that Laura had cut her hair short, dressed in more
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and his four vicious dogs, whom he restrains on leashes, trek through the countryside; one-by-one, the marquis sets and releases each dog on a victim. The first dog is unleashed on a small young boy with black soulless eyes, the second on a
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