The story starts off in a world that at a glance seems like our own, but is completely different from what we know. This is a world where science coexists with magic, a world where the populace believes that magic and demons are normal. However, what they do not know is that beings that claim to be gods are appearing at a quickly increasing rate.

As the 2nd year high school student Isa Hironori made the trip from his school to his apartment he was walking abnormally fast, almost running. If one looked closely enough they would see sweat rolling down his forehead in sheets, even though it was only mid-spring. As soon as he walked into his apartment he collapsed at the doorway, and clutched his head in agony.

“nggg” Hironori was in so much pain that it was too difficult to even scream, and this low, muffled, groan was the best that he could muster.

As he lay there paralyzed in pain, he thought to himself “What is happening to me, why must I go through such excruciating pain. Anything would feel better than this, whether it be getting stabbed with a dull knife repeatedly, or even bludgeoned to death with a bat. At least with these things I would know that the pain would end when I was killed.”

Finally, after two hours the pain started to subside and Hironori could move again he immediately went to the bathroom to wash off some of the sweat. When he finished rinsing off his face in the sink he looked into the mirror. When he did he saw his own familiar face staring right back at him. His own black hair, his average face, and in his own opinion, his best feature his bright blue eyes that seemed to suck people in if one stared into them long enough.

He was relieved to see himself, after experiencing that kind of pain so many times Hironori quickly began to fear that one of these times when he looks into the mirror he will not be himself anymore. After making a relieved sigh Hironori turned around to go make something to eat, since it was already nearly seven at night. As he turned he saw something that would haunt him for the rest of his life, something so disgusting that even thinking about it made him nearly vomit for the next week. It looked as if it were a large mound of rotting meat all pressed together firmly to form a body, at had no arms or legs, but it’s face was it’s most terrifying feature. This thing’s face was constantly changing. At first it was a very fitting rotting pigs head, then it quickly changed to another rotting animal head, then another. Then its head was that of human, but it was gruesomely tortured. There was nearly no skin left, its eyeballs were taken out and its ears were cut off. Then it continued to change again and again each one’s face more gruesome then the last, finally its face closely resembled that of his father, except this face was tortured to an extreme degree then it just shifted between that and a face that resembled his mother over and over again.

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This made Hironori actually vomit repeatedly and his eyes started to water up. Hironori and his parents had an extremely close relationship, he did everything together with them, and he loved every minute of his life with them. However when he was seven his parent’s died in a car accident on their way home from work one day. His parents left Hironori everything they had. His remaining relatives started fighting over who got custody because that meant they had a good chance of getting his inheritance. In the end he chose to stay with his aunt and uncle whom he got along with well, when his parents were alive. When he graduated from junior high Hironori decided that for high school he would live on his own in a small apartment. Shortly after he moved in he started hearing things moving and something shuffling around, but he chose to ignore it. It continued like this for a year and a half, then two months ago he was suddenly assaulted by pain at the same time every week. He went to the doctors, but they said he was perfectly healthy, and from then on he just suffered through the pain, but today is the first time anything like this had happened.

It continued for ten minutes, then disappeared while laughing with a voice that was impossible to describe, as if it was everything that disgusted people mixed into one noise. While this ordeal was the worst kind of torture for Hironori, this was also a great hint towards what this thing was. After recovering from that traumatizing ordeal, Hironori said to himself “ Now that I have a good idea of what this thing is I have to confirm it, then destroy it!”

After confirming the situation to himself he did not waste any time, and went to the nearest shrine to speak with a miko, to help him with this demon