The Five-Bedroom House With A...

Collection

The Five-Bedroom House With A...

The Five-Bedroom House With A...
Information
Volume	Rohan Kishibe Does Not Fall
Japanese Title	5LDK○○つき
Romanized Title	5 LDK ￮￮-tsuki
Total Chapters	8 (Audiobook: 7)
Total Pages	114
Cover Date	December 19, 2021
Chapter Chronology
← Previous	Original Author Rohan Kishibe
Next →	The Doll Without a Past

The Five-Bedroom House With A... (5LDK○○つき, 5 LDK ￮￮-tsuki) is a short story that is part of an anthology of short stories based on the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan series. It was written by Ballad Kitaguni and published by Shueisha.

The Five-Bedroom House With A... was included in a collection named Rohan Kishibe Does Not Fall with two other stories, which released on December 19, 2022. A Japanese audiobook for the story was released on November 12, 2024 on the audiobook.jp service. It released on Amazon Audible, Google Play, and Apple Books on the following day.

Summary

Invited by Reisui Takashima (高島 麗水(たかしま れいすい), Takashima Reisui), an eccentric photographer, Rohan visits his new 5LDK house (5 rooms, 1 living room, 1 dining room, and 1 kitchen) as a guest. Reisui reveals to Rohan that every inhabitant who has lived in that house would vanish every June. While Reisui is preparing dinner for Rohan, the kitchen suddenly falls silent. The only sound is water dripping from the tap. When Rohan goes to check, he finds a huge slug-like creature sucking on Reisui's head. The creature's body is translucent, refracting rainbow-like lights inside. Using Heaven's Door, Rohan manages to stop the creature temporarily, freeing Reisui. However, his mouth begins foaming, and tears stream uncontrollably from his eyes. When Rohan reads the manga pages on the creature, he finds a single ominous line: "You peeked, didn't you?"

After a brief struggle, the creature attacks again and begins to absorb Reisui once more. When Rohan frees him a second time, something is different. Reisui says, "I can feel happiness… like a mother holding her child… and heaven…" Perplexed, Rohan suddenly realizes how the "invader" captures its prey. The creature creates illusions. Humans rely on light to see objects, and the creature manipulates this by producing its own light, tricking the victim's brain into seeing false images. This illusion is akin to how imagining something can create faint sounds or visions in the mind. At the climax of the fight, Rohan uses a photo of himself to lure the creature into a scanner. Once scanned, the "document" is sent as a message by Reisui.

Two months later, Rohan is still haunted by the incident. He theorizes that the five-bedroom house was deliberately designed as a trap to sacrifice inhabitants to the "invader." He deduces that the Seguin chestnut wood used in the window frames swells during the June rainy season, causing the windows to stick shut. This specific design ensures that the "invader" emerges during that month to claim its "sacrifices." Rohan also speculates that the creature might even be a mountain god.

Appearances

Characters

Rohan Kishibe

Reisui Takashima

Shen

Vagrant

(Mentioned)

Nanase Fujikura

(Mentioned)

Koichi Hirose

(Mentioned)

Stands

Heaven's Door

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Trivia

• The Japanese title uses the abbreviation "LDK", which stands for "Living Room, Dining Room, and Kitchen" in Japan. It is a common term used to describe how many bedrooms are in a property by writing a number before the abbreviation.