Medicine to Cure the Wind [Weekly Short-Short Note]

The apartment I moved into is supposed to be relatively new, but it is strangely cold. It seems like there is a draft coming through somewhere. I can also hear some kind of muttering voices.

“...It’s just a rumor on the wind, but... I heard Mr. Kono in room 403 is getting a divorce because of an affair.”
“I heard Ms. Otonaka in Building B is paralyzed from a car accident.”

It seems like rumors about various residents are reaching me, as if there is a passageway inside the walls.

“...It’s just a rumor on the wind, but... Mr. Hinoyama really was cursed, it seems.”
“It can’t be helped, he broke the rules, after all...”
“Ever since Ms. Teioka saw that thing, she still hasn’t been able to be discharged from the hospital...”

Eerie topics were blowing in with quite a high frequency, and I finally ended up falling ill. Believing that cutting off the source was the best medicine, I sealed every single corner of the room with tape.
The bad wind stopped abruptly.
Ah, I can finally live a healthy life—

“...It’s just a rumor on the wind, but the new guy, Mr. Botsushima, sealed it all up.”
“The curse is going to build up, isn’t it.”
“He’s going to be spotted by that thing.”
“I wonder how many that makes.”
“Poor thing.”

* #BunFesTokyo39 Since I will be participating in a horror anthology book at the event, I will be writing all of my prompts and secret prompts for the two weeks leading up to the day in the horror genre!