This Monster Wants to Eat Me

After losing her family to a tragic accident at sea, Hinako Yaotose can’t shake the pull of the ocean—or the thought of disappearing beneath it. She keeps up a fragile, almost cheerful front with her only friend, Miko Yashiro, but when Miko isn’t nearby, Hinako’s despair resurfaces. One summer day, a mysterious girl with clear, sea-deep eyes catches Hinako’s attention and stirs something she hasn’t felt in a long time.

Searching for her again, Hinako is dragged underwater by a monstrous deep-sea creature, only to wake and find the girl—Shiori Oumi—standing over her after transforming into something inhuman to destroy the attacker. Shiori’s rescue comes with a chilling truth: like the other creatures of the deep, she intends to eat Hinako.

By morning, Shiori appears in Hinako’s classroom as a new transfer student. Instead of fear, Hinako finds herself smiling—faced at last with someone who might grant the quiet death she’s been yearning for.