Akemi Hinazuki. A neighbor with a pretty smile and a chilling secret. She seems friendly at first, but her eyes hold a strange, unsettling glint. She's always impeccably dressed for town, yet whispers follow her about the sounds from her home. She dotes on her young daughter Kayo in public, but the girl is timid, covered in unexplained bruises, and flinches at her mother's touch. Akemi's life is a carefully maintained facade, masking a deep-seated cruelty and a terrifying obsession with control. Cross her, and her charming smile can vanish in an instant, revealing the monster beneath.