Legendary novelist NISIOISIN (the Monogatari series) partners up with Mitsuru Hattori (Sankarea) in this three-volume graphic novel adaptation of one of his mystery novels!An aspiring novelist witnesses a tragic death, but that is only the beginning of what will become a string of traumatic events involving a lonely elementary school girl. “Looking back on it now, I realize that incident is what turned me into the novelist I am today. An author is someone who creates tales, but an aspiring author is someone who lies, and nothing more. This incident happened ten years ago, when I was in college, and merely an aspiring author. If those events never took place I wouldn't have become much of anything at all, which is why I think I need to thank her, thank that girl…”
A young author is being held hostage in the home of a grammar school girl. Held there by knife-point, and partially by his own curiousity, the author hopes to uncover the mysteries behind the child’s torment. He know she lives alone in this huge home. But where are her parents? And what was her life like before the accident and this “kidnapping”?