Moi left New York behind to live a quiet, uneventful life in Japan.

Now an English teacher in the peaceful town of Kakogawa, he spends his days grading papers, playing video games late into the night, and coming home to the only constant in his life—his dog, Luffy. While news reports whisper of mysterious disappearances in Tokyo and Osaka, Moi barely pays attention. Big cities have always been dangerous. That’s exactly why he chose somewhere small and calm.

But peace, it turns out, was never an option.

From the moment he arrives, something watches him from the shadows. At first, Moi dismisses it as exhaustion. Paranoia. A lack of sleep. Yet when masked figures break into his apartment in the dead of night—moving with inhuman speed and wielding powers that shouldn’t exist—Moi learns the truth too late.

Magic is real.

And whatever power sleeps inside him is worth killing for.