A mysterious woman was confined in a cell adjacent to the one occupied by Tenshuu and Gondou. She asserts that she is a "magician" and taunts Gondou into murdering Tenshuu so he can join her. This woman harbors a "Black Entity," an ominous force attracted to powerful wills.
Yurika confesses that she became possessed by the Black Entity after attempting to kill her father and sister.
Main
Tenshuu is a romance novelist convicted and sentenced to be executed for the murder of five people, including his girlfriend. While on death row, he accepts the alternative to the execution and is unknowingly brought as a test subject into an experiment a...
Supporting
Gondou is a former death row inmate who also opted for the experiment instead the execution. He is brash and violent and admits to having gone after two people, with seven deaths resulting from the confrontation. He is immediately interested in Yurika and...
Supporting
Misako was Tenshuus girlfriend. She was gang-raped by four men, whom Tenshuu killed in retaliation.Misako ultimately commits suicide by hanging. As Tenshuu is getting ready to follow her, he hallucinates Misako reproaching that he became distant after she...
Supporting
A short boy who's in Takaya's class, and the first one (other than Takaya) to find out about Lilim. At one point in the story, Lilim has a disagreement with Takaya and stays with Kojima for a while. In that amount of time, Kojima teaches her to write. Unl...
Supporting
A mysterious woman kept in a cell next to the one occupied by Tenshuu and Gondou. She claims to be a "magician" and goads Gondou into killing Tenshuu in order to join her. She is possessed by a "Black Entity" that is drawn to strong wills.Yurika admits th...
Supporting
One of the scientists behind the experiment involving death row inmates. Unlike Kojima and the people at headquarters, she is more interested in saving Yurika than in exploiting the powers of the Black Entity.She is Yurikas older sister....
