1: Lock

My master of occultism had lived at an terrible apartment rented for 9,000 yen a month.
The entrance door had been often unlocked and sometimes locked with a cheap dial-type padlock.

There is this anecdote told about him.
Oneday in the morning, he woke up and noticed a strange guy sitting down next to his pillow. "Good morning," The guy said.
"Good morning," Master answered. Then, the stranger began an invitation speech for a cult-religion or something. Master didn't wait the strange guy to finish and said "Good bye,", leaving him alone behind in the apartment.

He never cared about crime prevention. Sure enough, the door was unlocked when I visited his apartment for the first time.

We drunk hard and zonked until we fell into asleep as if we passed out.
In the midnight, I had a ringing in my ears. I woke up and saw... a man shaped shadow looking into Master who was sleeping next to me.
I thought it was a burglar and panicked for a moment, but couldn't even lift a shout.
I kept my eyes slightly opened and gazed at the man, pretending that I was sleeping. The man began to walk toward the entrance dizzily.

―― Go away. There's nothing you want in this room, isn't there?

As I shouted urgently in my mind, the man opened the entrance door. When he turned around to me in the faint light, I saw an graze on his right cheek.
After he had left, I routed Master out. "PLEASE lock the door!" As I said, I was almost crying.

"Woo, it was scary." Master looked the other way. "But it's no use to lock the door for that." He said.

"What the hell are you saying? Are you fool? Oh, wait, were you awake?"

As I went on, he smirked and said, "You saw his face, didn't you?"

As I nodded, he told a gruesome thing, pointing his eyes with his fingers . "Glasses."

I understood everything by the word.

I'm weak-sighted. I can see almost nothing without the glasses. Even then, Master's face was so close to me but the outline was so dim.

"It was your first time seeing something without the glasses, yeah?"

I could do nothing but nod.
I became aware of that was what it should've been for the first time.

Anyway, Master told me that was only a passing. Although I've stayed at Master's apartment for several times after that, I've never met the man again.