Ayana Inoue

Rei, l'assassin, hésite pour la section zéro de la police de Tokyo, elle se lie d'amitié avec un jeune homme qu'elle croise dans un bar gay à la recherche de sexe. Après qu'il se fait tabasser par un groupe de voyous, elle le prend pour vivre avec elle. Quand une série de meurtres crapuleux a lieu, elle commence à soupçonner que le tueur pourrait en fait être son ami.

Maiko is a recently widowed young woman travelling to Bali to distract herself from the loss of her husband, Esau. At the airport she meets Kioko, who gives her a dagger and a photo of a woman. She tells Maiko she must find the woman, Shireni, in Bali and convince her to return to Japan, or she must use the dagger to kill her. Soon after her arrival in Bali she meets Shireni and is invited to stay with her. Quickly Maiko finds herself trapped on Shirini's island paradise, by her own confusion and her developing love for Shireni. She discovers Shireni to be immortal, a former spirit medium whose only goal is to find pleasure, body and soul.

Based on the novel of the same name by Azusa Katsume.

A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his grandfather.