Mono-no-Aware

Oishi Takehiko moves to a quiet town on the edge of the city with nothing. No hopes. No attachments. Not planning to make any. He has spent years getting really good at not caring.There is a rumor going around in town.A place in the hills. People who go there change in some way, or they don't come back the same way they left. The kind of story that goes around in whispers between classes and no one believes it until someone does. What happens after the rumor is not what anyone thought would happen. It's something that has been around longer than the town, the city, and even the wounds that people carry without realizing it. Something that has grown. Something that wants to stay the same.They'll have to face what's inside themselves before they can face what's inside.This is hard for most people.Oishi has spent his whole life making sure he never has to do this.He is wrong about a lot of things.This is the story of how much it cost him to find out.