Abstract

【Nominated for the Naoki Prize!】

Hell sleeps underground in Tokyo. Horror of the new era released by the ever-evolving genius.

Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, who works in the IR department of a major developer, was heading to the basement of the company's high-rise building construction site to investigate. The purpose is to confirm the truthfulness of the tweets about the site, such as ``There was a fire'', ``I get sick just by being there'', and ``Human bones were found''. As he continues his investigation, feeling unusually dry and having a foul odor - the smell of a person being turned to ash - he arrives at a mysterious shrine with a huge hole, not marked on the drawings. A man was chained in the hole. Hit by a number of abnormal phenomena, Mitsuhiro released the man in a panic and returned to the ground, but it was only the entrance to further terror that struck himself and his family.

Author’s Information

Tow Ubukata was born in Gifu in 1977. He made his debut with "KUROI KISETSU"(The black season) which won the KADOKAWA Sneaker Award Gold Prize in 1996. He won the 24th Japan SF Grand Prize for "Mardock Scramble" in 2003, the 31st Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers, the 7th Bookseller's Award, the 4th Seiichi Funahashi Literary Award and the 7th Hokuto Literary Award for "TENCHI MEISATSU"(The reading the schedule of a solar eclipse and a luna eclipse) in 2010, the 3rd Futarou Yamada Award for "MITSUKUNI DEN" in 2012. He also wrote "Bye-bye, earth," "KIRINJI"(The Child of Giraffe) and more.