SPOILER ALERT
I WILL BE SUMMARIZING THE ENTIRE STORY, SO IF YOU WANT TO READ IT YOURSELF BEFORE GOING FURTHER IN, YOU MAY DO SO HERE.
Yuuko has been having trouble speaking as of late, and nobody knows why. When her friend Rie goes to visit her after she didn't show up in school the next day, she finds Yuuko's parents salting and squashing a slug infestation in the backyard. They let Rie inside to see Yuuko, and, she finds her in her room, with a mask over her mouth. When Yumiko's mother tries to see what is wrong, Yuuko bats her away.
The next day, Rie goes back to Yuuko's to find her mother running out of the house in horror. Yuuko comes out behind her, and reveals that her tongue had transformed into a giant slug. Rie runs out of the house and never comes back, but Yuuko's parents keep her updated. Yuuko tried to cut her tongue off several times, but each time a new slug grows in its place. Even attempts to salt the giant slug did not work. Slowly, Yuuko wasted away due to being unable to eat or drink. In a last-ditch effort to kill the slug, they put Yuuko in a bathtub full of salt. After she completely submerged herself, she didn't surface. When her parents fished her out, they found a normally sized head on a small, shriveled body. To try and revive their daughter under running water, but instead the slug came out of her mouth, and now it carries her head around the backyard, like a snail's shell.
REVIEW AND THOUGHTS
Well, that one was... unusual. It wasn't one of the more interesting Ito stories I read, and I guess this one would be more frightening to someone who had a slug phobia. I, on the other hand, never did have that fear and actually found slugs to be pretty fascinating. Unfortunately, it was not what I look for in an Ito story, so I have to give it the final verdict of:
CONFUSING
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