Girl in the Shell

Synopsis

Continues the story of Cartagra: Tsuki Gurui no Yamai

Takashiro Shugo, the story's protagonist, is a former police officer currently unemployed and living as a freeloader at a brothel. Occasionally, he accepts detective assignments from his old superior. The narrative begins when a missing persons case involving Kohzuki Yura is thrust upon him. Yura is a woman with whom Shugo shared an intimate relationship prior to being deployed to war. While this search unfolds, a string of brutal murders takes place in the background. As these killings draw nearer to Shugo's circle, he can no longer ignore them and finds himself drawn into a spiraling web of events.

In this installment

Based on the erotic game by Innocent Grey. Reiji is a private detective. One day, he receives a strange request from a girl: "Please look for... me. The real me." Around the same time, a series of abnormal murder cases occur, and Reiji is also asked to investigate them. A girls' high school called Yukari, which Reiji's younger sister attends, has two female students who have gone missing. Tokio, the vice principal of the school, asks Reiji to search for them. As a result, Reiji takes on three cases simultaneously. To gather information, he begins working at the school undercover and meets Toko, the same girl who previously asked him to find her true self. "Hi, nice to see you again, sir." The killings continue without end... A spiral of tragedy... What might break through this tragic situation is a girl's smile.