A new door opens in the "Mishimaya Series," the life's work of Miyuki Miyabe!

midnight.
When the family witnessed the eldest sister-in-law sneaking out of the second son-in-law's room and questioned her about it, the eldest sister-in-law shed tears, saying she did not remember anything.
At that time, the youngest daughter of the family was the only one who noticed that the teardrop under the eldest sister-in-law's eye had popped out and she was running away to a corner. A few days later, at dawn, the second sister-in-law attacked the third sister-in-law's husband.


The only person who saw the second sister-in-law, who was dazed even when her family screamed and questioned her, run away with a teardrop popping out from under her eye was the youngest daughter.
A teardrop that shines smoothly like a drop of black lacquer on bloodless, pure white skin.
What on earth is the identity of the teardrop that appears out of nowhere, causes an incident, and then runs away?

Author Miyuki Miyabe said the following when publishing “Tear Spot.”
“As a writer, when I immerse myself in the Mishimaya series, I feel like I’m writing the most interesting parts of the story.
It's been 12 years since the beginning, and we've only reached chapter 31 with this book.
“I plan to end it in episode 99 because if I tell the story all the way to the end, something really weird will happen.”

“Wait, wasn’t that what happened?”
Domijiro stammered.
“That’s a ghost!”
Ochika was really amazing.
I still have a lot of classes to learn.
It's so inadequate.
I can't help but be scared by stories like this.
It was still broad daylight, but I couldn't look into the corner of the black and white room.
The front is okay, but the sides are unbearable.
What if I look back and there's a woman standing there?
--- p.99, from "Tear Spot"

――How could I not believe it?
You look like a ghost, too, he said.
“Did that much of the vitality drain out of me?”
Kameichi nodded in response to Domijiro's question.
“I realized this after seeing the manager’s words.”
Kameichi's shadow was only about half as dark as the manager's shadow.
“That, shadow, is, thin.”
--- p.270, from “Donghaeng-iin”

When one person died, a door opened.
Then a loud voice spoke.
Four people ahead, he said.

--- p.537, from "Kurotake Mythical Mansion"