The school's highly regarded 2nd second ranked student, Shirasaki Takeru, in reality, lives in an impoverished house, 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 lived in; strange buildings being built one after another in the past 2 months; Takeru too, solicited by suspicious men offering to buy his house for a huge sum...