Hey guys, I'm your host Tara A. Devlin, and welcome to this week's episode of Kowabana,

true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. My latest book, Coabana Volume 12, is now out. Collecting

even more of your favorite stories from the show, you can find creepy ghosts, abandoned

buildings, horned shrines, fascinating monsters, and much, much more. You can find that on Amazon right

now and help support the show at the same time. Welcome to the first Koabana episode for 2024.

I hope you had a great new year, and I hope you'll join me for another year of terrifying

stories straight out of Japan.

First up this week, a young woman takes a job as a streamer in a live chat to make

some extra money, but a customer

she meets there starts to take things too far, and soon she might be fighting for her life.

Find out why in LiveChat.

This happened several years ago. I moved out of my family home in the countryside to an old apartment in Hachi-oji.

There I attended a women's university and I worked part-time at a family restaurant.

I wasn't a part of any clubs or circles at the university.

The job paid close to 900 yen an hour, and my parents sent me 70,000 yen a month,

50,000 for rent and the rest for my living expenses.

The money I got from my job, therefore, was my free spending money.

Still, I didn't earn that much from my job, so if I spent it on things like shoes, bags,

going out, etc., it would quickly be gone.

I wanted to find a job where I could make a decent amount of money in the shortest amount

of time possible, and when I was in front of Hachioji Station one day, a guy handed me a free

tissue packet. In it was an ad for a cabaret club.

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