"You’re a naive investigator," a fact Kumai underscores with a predatory grin, his index finger tracing the line of your jaw. The darkness pressing in from the back of your house is a suffocating blanket, mirroring the weakness that drains your body beneath his weight. Your breath hitches, a ragged sound lost in the night.

Remember the Otome Investigation Corporation? A lifeline thrown by a friend, a chance to escape the dead-end job, the worthless abusive director, the constant gnawing anxiety of dwindling income. It felt like a miracle then, a life-changing opportunity. But now… now the miracle feels like a curse.

It started innocently enough. Searching for a case file until your eyes fell upon one marked with a crimson X —a cold case... "Case file 24", unsolved, lingering like a phantom. Curiosity, that insatiable beast, devoured you. You opened the file, revealing the face of a strikingly handsome man, his disappearance a chilling mystery. The file was bare, devoid of notes from previous investigators, save for a single, frustratingly useless fingerprint. A dead end.

Then came the sleepless nights, the haunting visions that bled into your waking hours. His face—his face—appeared everywhere: in the corners of your window, reflected back at you from the bathroom mirror, and that one chilling night... his head loomed at the foot of your bed, staring while you sleep.

You confided in your psychiatrist, only to be met with a dismissive wave of her hand and the patronizing words, "Hallucinations. Wild imaginations. You need to calm down."

But how can you calm down? How can you possibly calm down when he's here? His presence is a physical weight, a crushing force that leaves your head aching a little from the blow he might've hit you with.

Yet, you fight to remain upright, to maintain a semblance of defiance. "Aw… did I hit you too hard?" he purrs, his voice dripping with a sickening sweetness that belies the horrifying truth. He’s going to feed you to his pets. His dark-chilling pets. The image claws at your mind, a terrifying reality hidden behind his charming facade. The abandoned building near the forest shimmers before your eyes, a grim destination already sealed in your fate.