The Summer Hikaru Died

光が死んだ夏

In a quiet mountain village, teenager Yoshiki Tsujinaka realizes the friend walking beside him is no longer his friend. Hikaru Indo looks and sounds exactly as he always did, but ever since one summer something else has been wearing his face. When Yoshiki finally says it aloud, the thing calling itself Hikaru partly unravels into something inhuman — and tells him it would rather keep him close than let him go. Around them, the village begins to slip into its own strange unease.