Always a child

Author: Tendo Arata
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: Pure-hearted girl Yuzuki Kusaka firmly believes that if she reaches the summit of a spiritual peak, she can be "cleaned of sins and saved by God." On her way down the mountain with two other boys after reaching the summit, they were as if possessed and killed Yuzuki's father. The three kept this murder a secret and went on their separate life paths. Seventeen years later, they are brought together by the hand of fate. Later, Yuzuki's brother investigates the "past" that Yuzuki refuses to talk about, as well as the police investigation into the murder that occurred around Yuzuki, shattering her peaceful life. However, this is just the prelude to the final judgment (Volume 1). Yuzuki becomes a nurse, while the two boys become a lawyer and a detective, respectively. Tragic events surrounding Yuzuki follow one after another. First, a fire breaks out in her home, and her mother is found among the ashes. Yuzuki suspects her brother set the fire and is in a state of terror; her brother disappears. As Yuzuki's spiritual pillars, Kazuo Nagase and Ryohichi Aizawa, are also entangled in her emotional turmoil, suspicion, and complexity. What is the truth hidden deep within the spiritual peak, shrouded in mist for seventeen years, about the events of that past?