Chapter 1 · free to read
In Hoshigari, the dead do not leave. They wait by the lanterns for someone who can see them.
One candle in a hall built for a hundred, and an old man who had waited to say it.
That night, a new ghost came. One the lanterns did not summon.
It came close enough that the candle showed the face, which was the whole of the problem.
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