Shizuka Minamoto was 20 years old. She had pretty face and slim figure. She was wearing a white sleeveless blouse and a black miniskirt. And she wore skin color stockings and black high heels on her slim legs.
Her time travel machine malfunctioned and she fell into the wrong place. She looked Japanese in the faces of the people, but she couldn't tell which era it was. She couldn't understand what they were saying at all.
She knew some Chinese characters because she had a modern Japanese education, so she wrote them her name. So they found out that she was Japanese, too. But other than that, the people didn't understand what she was saying at all. They put her in a bamboo prison in the center of the castle.
The local officer pulled Shizuka out for questioning, but he didn't understand each other at all, so it was of no use. But it was clear that she was a suspicious woman who didn't even know where she came from. Since it was a time of war across the country, suspicious people were often accused of spying on military secrets. The local officer thought it was safer to kill her if he wasn't sure she had no charge. So he sentenced that she would get beheading execution the next day. Of course she was not aware at all that the verdict had been made.

Shizuka spent the night in fear of what would happen to her. After the light of day, a escort came to the bamboo prison where Shizuka was trapped, picked the lock and opened the door. He declared today that the execution of the sinner Shizuka Minamoto was carried out.
The escort pulled Shizuka out of prison. He turned her arms back hysterically, crossed her wrist at right angles and tied her up. Being so tightly bound, Shizuka made a momentary "Oops!" He turned the rope three times over her breast and tightened it, then turned the rope three more times under her breast, tightened it, and tied it up once more. The rope was so tight that she was very stuffy and asked to loosen it a little, but he yelled at her to shut up. She didn't understand the call, but she was scared. So she closed her mouth.
The escort raised the rest of the rope toward her neck, putting it under the rope that had already tied her. He put a rope around her back neck, then brought it forward again and put her under a rope that had already been tied. Then he lowered the rope toward her waist and turned her back to tie it up. There was some rope left in front of her. Then he tied her two ankles with a rope. Her breasts seemed more affluent, as the ropes were tied three rows each at the top and bottom of the breast.
Finally he took the white paper, covered Shizuka's face, and tied it to Shizuka's head with a string. Then Shizuka found out what was happening to her now. She knew some old stories. In the old days, people used a sentence called beheading when they put a sinner to death. The sentence was said to be a punishment for cutting off a criminal's neck. When executing the beheading, the escort covered the criminal's face with white paper, especially when executing the beheading of a female convict. Then even if she became a ghost after being beheaded, she would not be able to avenge the executioner because she did not see the face of the executioner who beheaded her when she was beheaded. She trembled with fear of being beheaded.

Shizuka couldn't move at all. Her body was tied tight and her ankle tied, so it was hard to even walk normally, let alone run. Besides, her face was covered, so she couldn't even tell where to go. The escort grabbed the rest of the rope at the front of her body. And gave the rope a boost and said to her, "Let's go!" She was taken by the rope, and dragged as he went, unaware of where she was going.
A strong pull on the rope would have caused her more pain, but he didn't want to go that far, so the escort walked along leisurely, pulling the rope lightly. She had no choice but to walk like a gentle lady, because her ankles were tied. She walked on the gravel road in her high heels, and a thud rang out.
The escort thought this way. 'I wish it were the season when the cherry blossoms are falling. Wouldn't it be a spectacle if cherry blossoms fell on the road leading to cut off this pretty woman's neck? The sight of her decaptitated head falling to the ground after she was beheaded would be like the cherry blossoms falling down.'

The execution site was a small garden surrounded by a low-slope wooden fence. Most of the garden was covered with large stones, but there was a spot in the middle where the sand was revealed. The executioner dug a hole in a rectangle and laid straw in it. And he put a straw mat in front of the pit. The executioner stood with a Japanese sword that had sharpened its blade well.
The escort set Shizuka up at the end of the mat and handed the rope over to the executioner. The executioner cut off the rope and handed it over to the escort. The escort kept the piece of rope as a souvenir, and went to the front of the pit and turned and sat down. Because her face was covered, Shizuka didn't even know where she had come, but she knew for sure that the escort had stopped her.
The executioner hit Shizuka's spine with the back of the sword and shouted. "Sinner Shizuka Minamoto, kneel down!" she didn't understand it, but she fell down gently because she was startled by a spasm and was frightened by a roar. She suddenly knelt down on a straw mat, so it was tingling and painful when the base straw hit her leg. As she knelt down and sat down, her miniskirt swept up, revealing a little bit of her slim legs beneath it.
The white paper covering her face bothered her, so she was very nervous. The cold sweat on her back neck cooled down her neck.
The executioner put oil on the sword and shouted again. "Sinner Shizuka Minamoto, Get beheading execution!"
Shizuka didn't understand it, but now it couldn't mean anything else. 'He's gonna cut my neck now.'
As if possessed by a ghost, she stretched her neck long. On the back of her neck, where she had a cold sweat, suddenly felt an icy chill. And soon the coldness was turned into fire.
Shizuka felt that the world was going around once. And soon the world was crammed into a small box.

Shizuka Minamoto got beheading execution surprisingly mildly. The executioner cut her neck in one shot.
Shizuka's headless body collapsed sideways, and began to bleed from the stump that her neck was cut. Perhaps because of the woman's weak blood, the blood didn't go far and fell mostly around.
Shizuka's decapitated head fell into a pit and was buried directly in the straws that lay in the pit. As the straw immediately sucked the blood from her head, her face quickly turned pale.
The executioner took Shizuka's decapitated head out of the pit. The head was no longer bleeding. The executioner took off the paper covering her face. And he lifted her head at chest level and saw it to the escort. And he shouted like this.
"The sinner, Shizuka Minamoto, got beheading execution!"
A woman and two men entered the execution site. The executioner wrapped Shizuka's head in a towel and handed it to the woman. The two men rolled up Shizuka's headless body with straws and carried it somewhere.

The woman came to her workplace with Shizuka's beheaded head. Her job was to wash her decapitated haid. The wooden barrel was filled with fresh water. The woman unpacked the towel packing her head. Then she glanced at Shizuka's face for a moment.
Shizuka's face was already pale but still pretty. Shizuka was twenty years old, as the woman heard. Her face was young and mature, but a little bit of a young feeling remained.
There was a pathetic feeling in the woman's heart. What a beautiful woman like this, such a young woman, was killed. Even She was beheaded cruelly.
But this woman had already been decapitated, and it was only her head that was here. There was only one thing she could do for this woman, whose head only had come to her. She dipped Shizuka's beheaded head deep into a bucket. She damped her head deeper than ever, and washed cleaner than ever. And took her head out of the bucket, and wiped it with more sincerity than ever. And she picked out the cleanest dry towel, carefully wrapped her head.

The executioners set up two wooden pillars six feet high in the middle of the castle. Then they took a thick wooden bar and nailed two large nails into the center of the bar, making the nail tip protrude to the opposite side. Then they turned the bar upside down, and inserted Shizuka's beheaded head on the nail that popped out in the middle of the bar. Then, around the place where they had put her head in, the mud was surrounded and hardened, and the bar was hung between two wooden pillars. And put her headless body on the ground between two pillars. Shizuka's decapitated head was on display for three days.
The body of the prisoner whose beheaded head was on display was prohibited from burial. So originally her head was to be thrown away in a field outside the castle with her headless body and rotted away. But the sight of her headless corpse still wearing a sleeveless blouse and miniskirt, stockings and high heels, aroused the local official's curiosity. So three days later, he made a small room in the storied warehouse. Then put a small shelf in the room, put Shizuka's beheaded head on the shelf, and put her headless body under the shelf. The room became a small spectacle for the people of the castle. Shizuka's friends worried about her whereabouts, but they never imagined she would be this much of a spectacle after going back hundreds of years to the past and dying of decapitation.

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