Manhole

Once in the winter, in the city of Sasahara, an ordinary student commits in the middle of the street the killing by negligence of an inadequate naked man. Detectives are going to close the "uninteresting business", when suddenly in the bodies of the deceased and all the contacts they find a new type of filaria , parasites that are rarely found in humans. An unusual infection spreads through the city faster than the detectives have time to understand what they encountered.

• Mizoguchi Ken is an experienced detective , a protagonist , leads the case of those infected with filarias. In the course of the development of the plot, he himself is infected, but thanks to the willpower, he does not allow the infection to seize his mind.

• Inoe Nao is a young female detective, protagonist , partner Mizoguchi.

• Takimoto Shuichi is an experienced detective of the age, an employee of the same department as Mizoguchi with Inoe. In the past, he already conducted cases in which the persons involved in the current case were involved. Accelerates the process of conducting confusing investigation.

• Hiroshi Kurokawa is an antagonist , a talented aged biologist who has survived the shock of the details of the rape of her granddaughter. In search of retribution, he finds a rare African parasite that causes clouding of consciousness "for the better." Towards the end of the work, he attempts to organize an irreversible epidemic, believing that he will provide services to the whole world, saving him from maniacs, but he crashes. Before suicide, he declares that he deliberately left traces and after publicity, he will have followers who will again find the infection.

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