Refining Ghosts

In an unexpected phone call, Makino received a call from his grandfather, asking him to go home and collect bones for his parents. According to the custom in my hometown, seven years after a person's death, the family needs to open the coffin to collect the bones for a second burial. However, this call confused Makino because it had only been five years since his parents' death and it all seemed out of time. With doubts, Makino hurried back to his hometown. However, when he stepped into the house, the reality shocked him. It turns out that his grandfather had passed away the day before. Makino realized that the call he received might not come from the living grandfather, but from some unexplainable force. As the truth gradually unfolds, Makino is involved in a fog of death, memory and mystery, facing a secret that is even more unfathomable than the customs after death. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.