Shigeo “Mob” Kageyama is a seventeen-year-old boy who just started classes at Paprika University. His major is undeclared, but he’s considering going into the Business program. Anything to make him feel normal.



Because it’s hard to feel normal when you see dead people.

No, not dead people. Dying people.



Mob is an esper with the power to read the psychic resonance in areas of death. Once he anchors himself to an object connected with the event, he enters a state in which lives through the final moments of the victim. When it’s a murder, however, Mob can see through the killer’s eyes into those last horrifying seconds where a life is extinguished.



A life he could never save.

Enter Reigen Arataka, the self-studied and individually licensed private investigator for hire. Reigen has made his living off picking up the scraps of botched police investigations, using simple observation and unfounded conclusions to make clients feel that he’s provided a service. All of that changes when he meets Mob, who seems to have a remarkable (and profitable) gift, and he employees the young man as a “protege detective” to help him put his talents to good use.



But when they start down the trail of a string of local murders, Reigen will discover that with every gift comes a price, one that Mob will need to pay.

