What happens when eight eccentrics cross paths on a paranormal blog run by a high school NEET? A whole lot of weird! Gamon Yuta runs an occult-related site he hopes will one day make him rich. But before his dreams can come true, strange things begin to occur as the lives of these nine oddballs collide. Can they solve a case that transcends reality and could alter the very fabric of our world? Correction: A few pages of text were not included in the first printing of this paperback. Read the missing text here.
After Gamon finds Professor Hashigami’s corpse with a mysterious key in its mouth, things take a turn for the dark and twisted. Zonko taunts him with a bloody vision, claiming that Gamon himself is the killer. But Hashigami’s death isn’t the only murderous plot afoot. The Kirikiri Basara group is about to face a huge massacre of decidedly occult origins–putting the case right up their creepy alley.
Yuta Gamon’s name has turned up on the list of casualties from “The 256 Incident”–an apparent mass-suicide by drowning that left 256 people dead. Refusing to believe that he might be dead, Gamon and former FBI agent Asuna Kizaki investigate the incident, uncovering a connection to the mysterious Hachifuku-shin Circle, rogue medical practitioners, secret experiments–and a conspiracy that might just transcend even death.