Takuma Enomoto

In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.

Lupo writer Rina meets a woman named Kiriko during a report on the project "That Victim is Now." Eight years ago, Kiriko, a high school student, had a three-year history of confinement and insult to Tamaki, a criminal offender. At that time, a man seduced by an unidentified woman was stabbed one after another with an ice pick, which shook the world. As Rina continued, she suspected that Kiriko would be a continuous stab...