 Yuta, Mana, Mermaids |
Yuta falls asleep under a tree while Mana goes to play with a kitten she found. When Yuta wakes up, he can't find Mana anywhere, and finds out that there was an accident and a young girl was hit by a car. Yuta goes to the doctor's office where Mana was supposed to have been taken, and the doctor told Yuta that Mana was not seriously injured and had left. When Yuta STILL can't find Mana, he realizes that something is very wrong and follows the doctor up to a huge mansion where all sorts of strange things have been happening over the decades. | The story takes place in Modern Japan. |
 Mana, Towa |
Two women lived there, the ancient Sawa and the youthful but ill Towa. The old woman Sawa is actually the twin sister of Towa, who appears to be several decades younger. Sawa was given control of the family legacy, "Mermaid Hill," a hill where the corpse of a mermaid was supposed to be buried. Sawa found out that eating the body of a mermaid could bring immortality or turn a person into a monster. Sawa desired immortality, and decided to test out some mermaid's blood on her fatally ill sister, Towa. Sawa figured that since Towa was her twin, anything that happened to her was likely to happen to Sawa also. |  Mana, Towa |
 Mana |
Towa and her dog both ended up taking the mermaid's blood because of Sawa, and Towa's hair instantly turned white and her hand turned into a "lost soul's" claw. The dog turned completely into a lost soul. Towa remained young-looking on the outside, although she was aging and dying on the inside. Her hand often began to pain her, so she would acquire the corpses of girls who had died and cut off the girls' arms (and her own) and then reattach the new "human" arm to herself which would instantly heal. However, the human arm would only last for a while, and then it would turn back into a claw. | |
| Mana was hit by a VERY large truck, and "died" when she ran across the road while Yuta was sleeping. She was taken to the doctor's office, and the doctor, not knowing that Mana could come back to life, took her up give to his fiancee Towa who used the arms of recently dead girls to replace her own mutated one. When Mana came back to life at the mansion, she shocked everyone. She surprised them even MORE when she revealed that she had eaten mermaid's flesh and was immortal. Towa began to plan on how to use Mana to her advantage, but Mana was too innocent to understand that Towa was anything else but a kind woman, completely fooled by Towa's facade. Mana spends her days as a "guest" at the mansion wondering why Yuta has not come for her yet. Mana did not realize that he was already there... but Towa had "taken care" of him already... |  Mana, Yuta |
