Before Rika Orimoto disappeared from this world forever, she told her boyfriend to be happy and not come looking for her too soon.
But her boyfriend really did move on without a second thought.
Rika Orimoto watched helplessly as he immediately fell in love with a classmate. They married, loved each other, and filled the house with children and grandchildren. He even kept the engagement ring she cherished most as a lucky charm for his child.
[Yuta, you were the one who said it first.]
[You said you'd give me your heart and soul, your future, and everything you had.]
[But you forgot as soon as you turned around. Do you know what happens to the first person to lie? They go to hell.]
*
Rika Orimoto was brought back to life by a god.
She devoured a black-haired girl with a beauty mark beneath her eye, and took the name Fuka Orimoto.
She didn't know if she was a cursed spirit, a human, or a monster.
But it didn't matter. Fuka Orimoto learned the ways of her ex-boyfriend...
She would teach the world what "true love" meant.
That so-called "true love"... is just an excuse used by liars, scumbags, and men who can't stop lying.
*
Yuta Okkotsu, a second-year student at Tokyo Jujutsu High, hears that they have a new junior this year, a girl named Fuka Orimoto.
Fuka Orimoto looks nothing like Rika,
but for some reason, Yuta Okkotsu can't shake the feeling that... his dead girlfriend has come back.
#Yuta, you self-proclaimed champion of true love, want to put on another performance for us?#
Reader's Guide:
1. Rika comes back to life, but she has fused with Tomie, making her a composite monster: a creepy, gloomy female ghost, half cursed spirit and half human, whose soul cannot be targeted (a natural nemesis of Mahito).
2. The whole point is that Yuta will never be happy. He'll become a pitiful puppy, longing for love but never getting it, and spend his life as a gloomy widower pursuing his wife through hell and back.
3. Lots of pairings, an anything-goes approach, including ex-husband Yuta. Everyone gets a route with Fuka, in the style of a gloomy Tomie-like femme fatale. All Rika.
4. The heroine has no concept of love. Don't expect her to heal anyone; she'd rather have the whole world go mad with her. Think of it as a Jujutsu Kaisen romance with female leads, mixed with a story of revenge against Yuta.
Theme: Liars have to swallow a thousand needles
