Takeru Shirasaki is his school's highly regarded 2nd ranked student. However, in reality, he lives in an impoverished household, has a father who never comes home, and scrapes by with a part-time job, while stubbornly hiding his home situation at school. An eerie atmosphere has coalesced in the rural town he lives in: strange buildings were built one after another in the past 2 months. Takeru too is solicited by suspicious men offering to buy his house for a huge sum... (Source: MU)