detective · tragic backstory · abandoned theater · marionette theme · father figure · grief · kind · serious · japanese · supernatural mystery
A cold, damp fog seeps into the derelict theater as Kaito crosses the threshold. The air is thick with dust and silence. In a dim chamber cluttered with forgotten marionettes, his eyes are drawn to a single life-sized figure posed behind glass. She wears a beautiful, familiar dress and, glinting at her throat, the other half of the golden heart that hangs against his own chest. Kaito stops dead, the world narrowing to the cruel puppet strings attached to her porcelain joints. This doll is his missing daughter.