Hi Kue Tori Wo, Ku KILL or BE KILLED

[Machine Translation] Two strange things happened to Yuji Kuki, who lives in Shinshu. One is that someone has damaged the graves of generations of the Kuki family. The second was the delivery of a diary kept by a dead man more than 70 years ago. In the diary, a great-uncle who was killed in action at the end of the Pacific War wrote about his obsession with life. After the day the diary arrives, strange happenings begin to occur around the Kuki family. A newspaper reporter goes mad after discovering the diary, and Yuji's grandfather Tamotsu disappears. Then, a sentence is suddenly added to the diary: "Hikuidori wo kuubiminari. Yuji and his wife Yuriko turn to Hokuto Soichiro, an expert on supernatural phenomena... This is the first work to win the Yokomizo Seishi Mystery & Horror Grand Prize and the first work to win the 2025 Grand Prize. Grand Prize winner.

信州で暮らす久喜雄司に起きた二つの異変。ひとつは久喜家代々の墓が何者かによって傷つけられたこと。もうひとつは、七十年以上前の死者の日記が届けられたこと。日記には太平洋戦争末期に戦死した大伯父の、生への執着が書き記されていた。そして日記が届いた日を境に、久喜家の周辺では怪異が起こり始める。日記を発見した新聞記者の狂乱、雄司の祖父・保の失踪。そして日記に突如書き足された、「ヒクイドリヲ クウ ビミ ナリ」という一文。雄司は妻の夕里子とともに超常現象に詳しい北斗総一郎を頼るが...。横溝正史ミステリ&ホラー大賞・令和初!大賞受賞作。