This is modern Japan. Somewhere in a certain prefecture.

There lived a high school boy named Kanato Fura, who was far from... ordinary.

Kanato had come to an abandoned village deep in the mountains as a penalty for losing a game with friends.

Abandoned mountain villages are staples for ghost stories, and this one was no different. There were certain rumors about it.

The rumors said:

"Ghosts appear in that abandoned village."

"People who go there never return."

"Something non-human lives there."

"It's a killer's hideout."

Typical, vague rumors that lacked any real credibility.