
Kirie sneaks into the cottage where the kiln is, looks inside, and sees a mass of spiral souls twisting around in the kiln, screaming of the heat. When asked if he needed help or what he was doing, he aggressively ignores the subject and forbids anyone to look in the kiln. The results turn out to be horridly disfigured ceramics with spiral shapes on them. The Firing Effect - Kirie's father, a potter is at the kiln late at night working on pottery.The scar becomes a hollow spiral that sucks what gets too close to it in, eventually eradicating Azami herself. However, Shuichi suspects that the scar is causing terrible effects in Azami, and is proven right. Although hesitant, Kirie agrees, but when they go to Shuichi's house he feels a sinister presence coming from Azami's forehead, and Azami reveals that she has a crescent-moon shaped scar which she believes has the power to make any boy fall in love with her. The Scar - Kirie's class friend Azami asks Kirie if she can meet Shuichi.During her cremation, the smoke creates another spiral. Subsequently, her sense of balance is destroyed along with her hearing and she is in a constant state of vertigo until she dies.

Eventually, she tries to rid herself of her inner ear ( cochlea) with a pair of scissors.

She develops a phobia of spirals and starts to rid herself of everything in her body that looks like a spiral.

The Spiral Obsession Part 2 - After he dies in a strange suicide, Shuichi's father's body is cremated, but during the funeral, the smoke from the cremation forms a spiral shape in the sky, consequently driving Shuichi's mother to insanity.

Eventually, he becomes a spiral himself by contorting his body in a wash tub in the shape of a spiral, killing himself in the process. His obsession becomes so disturbing that he starts to use his own body to create spirals. He collects anything featuring a spiral pattern, and eventually he stops going to work to stay at home and stare at his spiral collection. The Spiral Obsession Part 1 - High school student Kirie Goshima finds out that her boyfriend Shuichi is worried about his father, who has begun a strange obsession about spirals.
