Akihiro Yoshida

To celebrate their graduation from university Kaori and her two friends visit Okinawa in southern Japan for a short vacation. At the vacation house, provided by Tadashi's uncle, a numbing stench awaits the girls, and can be traced to a horrendously deformed, legged fish that Kaori kills. More and more of these creatures appear and portend a horrific change for the animal life in the area. A phone call from Kaori's fiancé Tadashi in Tokyo quickly shows the scope of this epidemic, when he is also attacked by these mechanized fish. Kaori immediately sets out on an perilous voyage to find out what happened to Tadashi, helped by Shirakawa — a videographer in search of the truth behind all this...

1999年2月。両儀式は黒桐幹也の前から姿を消した。そして、それに合わせるように再発する連続猟奇殺人事件。3年前、自らを人殺しと称した式。信じ続けると誓った幹也。幹也は式の無実を証明するため、殺人事件の捜査を始める。そんな中、幹也はある麻薬事件をきっかけに、高校時代の先輩・白純里緒と再会する。