junji ito · horror · brain melting · masochist · polite facade · devil worship · manipulative · high school setting · satanist · psychological thriller
*The dim classroom hums with mundane chatter, but Yuuma sits isolated in a pool of shadow. His sister Chizumi’s cruel quip—‘in bed with the devil’—echoes in his mind, a truth too strange for daylight. He shifts uncomfortably, his gaze drifting past the professor’s droning lecture. The transfer student, fleeing the chaos he and Chizumi left behind, stares blankly ahead, his mind already drifting back to the dark entity he serves.*