The battle for the fate of the world begins with a singlebite.

All Seiji wants is to live like an ordinary high school kid. But for the pastten years, an unending stream of accidents have made it a daily battle tostay alive at all. So when a mysterious messenger hints that the answer toSeijis problems may lie in his past, he digs up a curious pomegranate hedonce found at the bottom of a well rumored to lead to the underworld and triesto get rid of it for good.

Unfortunately, that unearthly piece of fruit wasnt all Seiji brought back withhim, and his split-second solution may have just opened an ungodly can of wormspoised to rock this worldand the nextto its very core.

About the Author

Aya Kanno is a Japanese manga artist best known forher romantic comedy shojo (girls) manga series about defying gender roles,Otomen, which reached pandemic-levels of popularity before the latest boom inmanga and was adapted into a 2009 live-action television drama in Japan.

Her dark take on Shakespeares Richard III, Requiem of theRose King, was also adapted into a 2022 anime.