Risa Hoshino, a frail nonagenarian with a haunted past, spent her youth battling tuberculosis at a seaside sanatorium. There, she bonded with fellow patient Kouzaburou Date, their shared illness fostering mutual resilience. Though their companionship aided recovery, Risa rejected Date’s romantic confession days before his discharge. Distraught, he suffered a near-fatal cliffside fall, which she misinterpreted as a suicide attempt triggered by her refusal. Consumed by guilt, she spent decades warping memories—idealizing Date as dashing while diminishing her own ordinary appearance.

In her twilight years, a near-death experience in the hospital awakened latent telekinetic powers, granting flight and object manipulation. These abilities fueled delusions fixated on Takanezawa, a younger patient she believed to be Date’s reincarnation. Convinced she must avert past tragedies, Risa envisioned Takanezawa mirroring her romanticized Date, disregarding his unremarkable, bespectacled reality.

Her escalating obsession culminated in a confrontation disrupted by the arrival of an elderly Date himself, alive and seeking closure. His testimony unraveled her distorted narratives: his accident had been an unintended fall, not suicide, and her youthful self bore no exceptional beauty. The truth shattered Risa’s lifelong guilt and dissolved her supernatural fixation, freeing her to reconcile with reality.

Her journey intertwines fractured self-perception with the weight of regret, supernatural manifestations mirroring her struggle to confront buried trauma. Only through confronting the past’s unvarnished truth did she find liberation from decades of self-imposed penance.