A full-length mystery in which the friendship between Yoko and Nozomi, who meet at an employment office in Ueno, leads to a suspicious death in an old household and to a past crime in a deserted mining village in Chikuho. Layering poverty, guilt, and old ties, it asks what judgment and redemption can mean.

A crime born from despair seeps like poison into other lives across time.

A short police story about a woman's skeletal remains found within the East Ikebukuro police district. With Gaku Yakumaru's characteristic attention to damaged lives, it follows the time and emotions behind the case. The story is collected in Shokatsu: Keisatsu Anthology.

From the silence of skeletal remains, the abandoned time of a life comes into view.