Tonight’s tale concerns a pitiful creature known as a weasel. It awakens to find itself surrounded by darkness, pain, and death. Venom is coursing through its body and threatening to wipe out the weasel’s mind. But there remains within it an undying worm of self-preservation that empowers the weasel to escape. 

            After a great deal of unpleasantness and a change of clothes, the weasel steps out onto the River Road and its memories come back to it. No, they come back to him. He remembers a time when he was the chief player in both the river village and the mountain village. He was second in command to Tomisaburo, the leader of the syndicate that enslaved the entire village.

            As he walks down the River Road, his thoughts linger on his past triumphs and his vanquished foes. His most pathetic victim was a lowly drunkard named Reggie. You may be familiar with him. The weasel had stolen his bones and left him to die on that very road. Yet the weasel has no remorse for that death. In fact, every step he takes on that blood-soaked road strengthens his resolve to return to his former greatness. He then sees a solitary man leaning on a stick under a streetlight, and he makes a plan. He decides to feed on this man as he fed on so many men before him.  So the weasel, who has just risen from hell, stalks his prey with the intent of slowly stealing his life from him until he dies. The only audience to this sickening spectacle is the moonlight and a growing conspiracy of ravens. They have decided to gather at this exact spot, and the weasel is not going to be happy when he finds out why.

            This tale contains themes of body horror, more themes of body horror, and to be honest, the weasel throws up a bit. I don’t want to surprise anyone with that sort of thing, so there it is. Furthermore, this tale contains violence, contempt for humanity, themes of corporate corruption, and profanity. Listener discretion is advised.