Shono deals with Mariko's admirers by drugging each man, then implanting a computer chip in their brains that prevents them seeing Mariko when she is within a certain distance. Professor Shono drugs Sano and calls an accomplice, Nishimura, to help him. He disbands the society and orders the men to leave - except Sano, a new member. They begin fighting over Mariko, and her father intervenes. All the men reveal they've had a similar experience. Iwata is devastated by his inability to see the woman he loves. He's since discovered a small scar on his hairline, and believes that the aliens operated on him. Subsequently, Mariko started disappearing before his eyes. Shortly after meeting Mariko, he suffered a headache and woke up in a blinding white room, only to re-surface in a park hours later with no memory of what happened. Other people, including her father, don't have this problem and can see her normally.Īt the meeting, Iwata reveals that he believes he's been abducted by aliens. Somehow, she began disappearing whenever she was in physical proximity to the men. Her father didn't approve of this and wanted to shut the society down, but Mariko talked him out of it. Eventually, all the women in the society left, so now the group consists solely of Mariko's admirers. He, Kurata, Inoue, and a number of other men are all in love with her and joined the UFO Research Society to get close to her. Iwata reflects that this has been going on for some time: Mariko is visible from a distance, but disappears whenever she comes near.

It vanishes just as quickly, and Mariko excitedly comes downstairs to talk to the men, but she becomes invisible and they can no longer see her. When Iwata and the others arrive for a meeting of the society, Mariko is on her balcony, just at the moment a UFO appears. The three all belong to the Nanzan UFO Research Society, which is run by Professor Shono and his daughter Mariko.

Iwata, Kurata, and Inoue live in Nanzan, a town famous for UFO sightings. Venus in the Blind Spot, also titled Disappearing Venus or Vanishing Venus, is the fourth story featured in the collection Venus in the Blind Spot.

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