{"id":4342,"date":"2025-04-17T20:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T11:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/%e3%82%a8%e3%83%94%e3%82%bd%e3%83%bc%e3%83%89%ef%bc%99%ef%bd%9c%e6%9c%88%e3%81%ae%e6%9a%97%e5%8f%b7%e3%81%ae%e8%a7%a3%e6%98%8e\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T18:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:02:56","slug":"bs-s1-ep9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/en\/bs-s1-ep9\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 9: Proof of Fermentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_9ad33f-ea, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_9ad33f-ea[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4342_9ad33f-ea\"]{margin-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-xl, 4rem);margin-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);font-size:var(--global-kb-font-size-lg, 2rem);font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_9ad33f-ea mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_9ad33f-ea[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4342_9ad33f-ea\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_9ad33f-ea img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_9ad33f-ea[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4342_9ad33f-ea\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_9ad33f-ea, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_9ad33f-ea[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4342_9ad33f-ea\"]{margin-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-xs, 1rem);font-size:24px;}}<\/style>\n<h1 class=\"kt-adv-heading4342_9ad33f-ea wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4342_9ad33f-ea\">Dialogue with the Spirits of the Skin<br>A Mystical Beauty Saga<\/h1>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_a63f7b-2c, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_a63f7b-2c[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4342_a63f7b-2c\"]{margin-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);font-size:var(--global-kb-font-size-md, 1.25rem);font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_a63f7b-2c mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_a63f7b-2c[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4342_a63f7b-2c\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_a63f7b-2c img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_a63f7b-2c[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4342_a63f7b-2c\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_a63f7b-2c, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_a63f7b-2c[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4342_a63f7b-2c\"]{margin-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-md, 2rem);}}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading4342_a63f7b-2c wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4342_a63f7b-2c\">Season 1 \u2013 When the Moon Descends: The Tale of the Loquat Spirit<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_39c4e4-6f, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_39c4e4-6f[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4342_39c4e4-6f\"]{margin-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_39c4e4-6f mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_39c4e4-6f[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4342_39c4e4-6f\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_39c4e4-6f img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_39c4e4-6f[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4342_39c4e4-6f\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_39c4e4-6f, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4342_39c4e4-6f[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4342_39c4e4-6f\"]{margin-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);font-size:20px;}}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading4342_39c4e4-6f wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4342_39c4e4-6f\">Episode 9: Proof of Fermentation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Returning to the farm, it was just past 4 p.m.<br>Kodama Takano parked the Aston Martin quietly behind the storage hut.<br>Though daylight remained, the air already carried a chill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration 1: Loquat orchard, damaged\" class=\"wp-image-5055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-1-1320x743.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A few steps into the field, he stopped short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014It was devastated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Broken branches and dead leaves strewn across the ground.<br>Among them, crushed fruit\u2014<br>loquats split open, pulp spilling, darkened as it mingled with soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014Another tornado must have passed after that night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was nothing like the place he had seen a week ago, beneath the full moon.<br>Then, the orchard had been alive with fragrance.<br>Now, silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2026With winds like that, no wonder it\u2019s come to this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Takano\u2019s voice was low, shoulders slightly hunched at the memory<br>of the tornado\u2019s terrible force he had first witnessed that week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Behind him came the faint rasp of a broom across the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration 2: Shimabukuro with broom\" class=\"wp-image-5057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-2-1320x743.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was the night you left,\u201d Shimabukuro said.<br>\u201cAnother tornado came.<br>It took pieces of the orchard\u2014branches, leaves, fruit.<br>Plenty fell.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His voice held the quiet pain of one who had watched over the land for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut\u2026 maybe it happened for a reason.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Takano lowered his eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At his feet, partly hidden beneath broken branches,<br>lay a single loquat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its skin was richly orange, ripened to the last.<br>Slightly split, it rested half-buried in a bed of fallen leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Takano crouched, brushed the leaves aside, and took it in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration 3: Takano\u2019s hand holding loquat, sudden shock\" class=\"wp-image-5059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-3-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-3-1320x743.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2014Ah\u2026!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The jolt struck instantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every nerve reversed its flow.<br>His vision burned.<br>Muscles seized.<br>Electricity raced his spine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He collapsed to one knee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2026hah\u2026hah\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His sight wavered.<br>His breath would not come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shimabukuro\u2019s voice rang out,<br>shouting from far away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTakano-san!?<br>Are you all right!?<br>Hey\u2014!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then even that voice drifted off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sound vanished.<br>Air froze.<br>Light dulled.<br>Gravity warped, time bent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-4-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration 4: Takano overwhelmed, drawn into another realm\" class=\"wp-image-5061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-4-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-4-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-4-1320x743.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The world turned inside out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And he was at the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contours dissolved,<br>leaving raw sensation.<br>Utter stillness\u2014<br>yet everything spoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014He saw it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fruit.<br>The leaves.<br>Moist air.<br>Okinawa\u2019s sharp swing of temperatures.<br>Moonlight.<br>All of it\u2014forming a single structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The night of the full moon.<br><em>The fall of the moon.<\/em><br>The instant the moon sank deepest toward the horizon,<br>sap swelled within plants,<br>fruit too heavy to cling to the branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And <em>its own bed.<\/em><br>The place where loquats fall by themselves\u2014<br>onto a carpet of their own leaves.<br>There dwell the natural microbiota,<br>the very agents of fermentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They alone set the fruit upon its course.<br>And Okinawa\u2019s day\u2013night contrast quickens it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The loquat can begin its own fermentation,<br>with no hand but nature\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These conditions aligning\u2014<br>this alone awakens the material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014<em>Fufu. At last, you see it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quiet voice returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-5-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration 5: Cipher card II\" class=\"wp-image-5063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-5-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-5-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-5-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-5-1320x743.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-5.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>\u201cAt the hour when the moon descends, upon its own bed of leaves.\u201d<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Takano remained kneeling, gazing at the fruit.<br>The pain had gone.<br>Only deep, profound recognition remained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The material chooses itself\u2014<br>its time, its place, its environment.<br>And to teach him this truth\u2014<br>perhaps the spirit had allowed even a tornado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A sacrifice made,<br>so that he might understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At his chest, the vial of Shisui rang faintly.<br>A sound small, yet unmistakably in reply.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>That night beneath the full moon,<br>Takano had kept every loquat harvested with Shimabukuro.<br>Now he carried them to OIST once more.<br>This time, the ferment would be prepared with full understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-6-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration 6: Takano preparing the second ferment\" class=\"wp-image-5065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-6-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-6-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-6-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-6-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-6-1320x743.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-6.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The fruit: ripe loquats gathered on the night of the full moon.<br>On their skins lingered faint traces of the microbiota<br>that lived upon their fallen leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He recreated Okinawa\u2019s natural conditions:<br>temperature, humidity, day\u2013night difference.<br>Everything nature had revealed,<br>now repeated deliberately, by design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Days later\u2014<br>gold shimmered in the beaker.<br>Its bubbles rose gently.<br>Its fragrance was deep and true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Takano touched the liquid, it trembled softly.<br>The Shisui at his chest chimed in answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014It had responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Proof that the material had awakened.<br>Not mere understanding,<br>but <em>recreation.<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Still, he sought confirmation.<br>Was this material truly unique?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He designed a control:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Loquats harvested at the full moon, carefully preserved<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Loquats harvested on a normal morning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>All other conditions identical\u2014<br>the microbes, the climate, the process, the equipment.<br>Only the timing of harvest differed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-7-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration 7: Takano analyzing results on computer\" class=\"wp-image-5067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-7-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-7-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-7-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-7-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-7-1320x743.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-7.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The results:<br>The fermentation from full-moon loquats showed 1.35 times the efficacy of the ordinary harvest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not a number alone.<br>It reflected difference in <em>vital force.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fruit had endured Okinawa\u2019s contrasts of heat and chill,<br>accepted the microbiota from its own leaves,<br>and was already prepared to ferment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That strength\u2014the readiness to endure fermentation\u2014<br>determined the depth of the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ordinary fruit could not withstand such a trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only that which grew in nature,<br>received the moon\u2019s fullness,<br>and was taken at its destined moment<br>bore fermentation\u2019s resolve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Science, at last, had measured what nature ordained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2026I see.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Takano pressed a hand gently over the vial of Shisui.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nature had aligned all things,<br>and revealed them.<br>When the material awakens.<br>Where fermentation begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And whether one can perceive it.<br>That, he now knew,<br>was the question for a <em>Kewaishi.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-8-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration 8: Takano smiling, holding a loquat\" class=\"wp-image-5069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-8-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-8-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-8-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-8-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-8-1320x743.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/beauty-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bsn-s1-ep9-8.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014The spirits never stay silent.<br>You 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