Mutsu-kabe Hill

M1, T2: Rohan Kishibe asks his editor Minoru Kaigamori for an advance. He recently went bankrupt buying six hills as part of his research into legends about Mutsu-kabe Hill’s monster. Minoru is in shock, but Rohan explains that it was worth it: he relays the story he learned from reading the memories of Naoko Osato, a woman he encountered there, and he also tells Minoru about his own encounter with the monster. Naoko’s tale begins several years prior, as a college student about to break up with her boyfriend at the time...