The Peak That Devours Daughters

Synopsis

Kamiba Town—too inconvenient to be called urban, too developed to be called rural. An utterly ordinary place where people are born, live unremarkably, and die without incident. Surely nothing cruel could ever happen in such a mundane town.

But wait.

Perhaps the residents understand all too well that in a town like this, you can never truly know what lurks beneath the surface.

Darkness hides everywhere—in 24-hour convenience stores, in the gaps of your room, always waiting with an open mouth for prey.

The protagonist of this story is not “human.”

What is he, then? Even he probably couldn’t answer.

What matters is that he is the protagonist of this tale, that he is something other than human, and that he is a creature that eats humans.

He devours them with relish, crunching away with obvious satisfaction. Those he eats die, of course. And watching them die, he weeps.

“Oh no… I’ve killed another human…”

Pretending to be human, he loves humanity more than humans themselves. Precisely because he loves them, he eats them, kills them, and cries.

When he cries, his hunger returns. And when hungry, he obeys his instincts.

He’s hungry. If he’s going to eat anyway, he prefers women. Young women, specifically.

So it goes. Another unremarkable resident of this quiet, respectable town vanishes without a trace, noticed by no one.

*Note: While internal organ depictions are restrained, this work contains grotesque and sadistic imagery throughout. Those sensitive to such content are advised to avoid it.