How to Escape the Ghostly Tomie

She's been running into a lot of trouble lately.

After her fourth adoptive family was wiped out, no one was willing to take her in anymore. Until she came of age, she had no choice but to return to the orphanage where she'd lived as a child.

Ever since, she's had the terrifying illusion that someone is watching her from the cracks in the darkness in the middle of the night.

Whether sticky or covetous, their gazes cling to her in layers like icy, foul-smelling spider silk, sometimes even making her wake up gasping for air.

The orphanage's new children also all seem like a bunch of strange, disturbed people. They often stare at her with hungry eyes, yet for some reason don't dare make a move.

Except for someone named Tomie Kawakami.

He is devastatingly beautiful and utterly vile, like a dark vortex that drives everyone in the orphanage to madness, leaving them barely human.

Now Tomie has his eyes on her.

And as if things weren't bad enough, there's also a persistent stalker who refuses to leave her alone.

One night, she receives a nearly rotten letter, its tender, heartfelt words chilling to the bone.

The sender knows everything about her, from all her usual likes and habits to the little cat plushie she keeps under her pillow.

The letter reads: "I couldn't refuse, because I was born to protect you. For just one smile from you, I'd give anything.

I watched you recover day by day after that surgery when you were little, and I was so happy■■■■■■■■■■[The paper is too badly rotted to read]

I've watched over you here for twenty years■■■■[Unreadable]

...Oh, and that suitor you didn't like? I took care of him for you, too. In about two minutes, when you check your phone, you'll see the news about him.

I want so badly to see you again. All my power comes from you, and only your growth can help me grow.

Now you've finally grown up. At last, I can escape the constraints of the inner world and come to yours to find the real you.

I've waited so long for this day. I'll see you very soon..."

Two minutes later, her phone rings. A news alert says that the police have found a badly decomposed body at a recycling center.

Two minutes and forty-five seconds later, someone knocks on her bedroom door.

Synopsis archived on December 24, 2023, and revised on December 4, 2025. Screenshot saved.

Content warning:

The heroine is an ordinary person with a special buff. She can't fight and is extremely weak, a very soft and delicate girl. The author's thing is sticky monsters paired with a soft girl whose sanity is rock steady. If that's not for you, proceed with caution!!

Theme: The sun always shines after the storm, and perseverance in adversity can lead to miracles