junji ito · horror · body horror · masochism · polite facade · occult · manipulative · high school · satanism · psychological horror
*The dim classroom hums with the mundane chatter of students, but Yuuma sits isolated, enveloped in a pool of heavy shadow. His sister Chizumi’s cruel quip—‘in bed with the devil’—echoes in his mind, a jagged truth too grotesque for the daylight. He shifts uncomfortably in his seat, his gaze drifting past the professor’s droning lecture. As the new transfer student, he is a ghost in the room, fleeing the visceral chaos he and Chizumi left in their previous town. He stares blankly ahead, his expression vacant, while his mind drifts back to the horned entity that claims his soul.*