Catch a F*cking Ghost: Abridged (Masterpost)
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I’ll kill them all if that’s what you want. I can make fire from my brain. I can make them burn up. I can make them all EXPLODE!
Summer, Sapporo, Hokkaido. A first-year junior high school student is horrifically killed in an unusual crime: a school shooting. Thirteen-year-old loner Finn Arashi is an uncommon witness-and survivor. Bullied for his fervent belief in aliens, the traumatic incident ignites a new obsession-fixation for the child who wielded a pistol… and disappeared.
School shootings never happen here…
Then, an English transfer arrives. Socially inept, Julian grows his hair waist-length, doesn’t hold eye contact and has never played baseball. Finn sees an opportunity for a friendship he never had. Though there is something odd how Julian rarely blinks, how he can viciously strangle another student with one hand, how he hides the burn marks on his right foot…
Julian’s Uncle Jonas is, perhaps, a stranger character. Bodies appear and fires are everywhere…
CHAPTER I
PART I | PART II | PART III
You’re not her son. You’re nobody’s son. The minute Mummy pushed you out and left you wherever she left you, you belonged to no one.
An unusual family are fugitives in a foreign country, though when the boy is left abandoned and seeks help from a gang of kids, his gruesome, psychic ability is unwittingly awakened.
MANIFESTO
Because in my world darlings, the Fourth Wall (capital “f,” capital “w,” trust me, it looks better this way) simply ceases to exist. I’ve only read enough books in my drastically short lifetime to (finally) figure that [redacted] out. What the [bleep] is that now? I can’t imagine. You tell me.
CHAPTER II
Bitch, I didn’t choose this planet. It’s not fair. Why do I have to be alive in this mess? Our generation’s DOOMED! BROKE-AS-SHIT!
After a tragedy takes hold of a Japanese junior high school, an unlikely misfit is convinced that the assailant the police are searching for is really a killer alien.
CHAPTER III
PART I | PART II
If I know anything, assassins never live long. Agents never (always) die, agents are (not) forever.
After the death of schoolgirl Mariko Hirako, the boy that accidentally murdered her, Agent Catcher meets the girl’s surviving friend at Hijiri Junior High School, only she believes she has met him before.
CHAPTER IV
This is what “normal” looks like. I miss this. I want us to be kids again.
An enigmatic new boy appears at school-a boy who wears his white hair to his waist and stares with unblinking, black eyes, and unfortunately for the sensitive Shiori, he may be alluring her best friend, Iris.
CHAPTER V
PART I | PART II | PART III
If only you knew, Yukino. If only you knew that I’m a secret agent, that I kill Enemies for a living, that I shouldn’t even be here talking to you people, that there’s no possible way for you to contact us without us having to kill you first.
Following a child’s baseball game gone horribly awry, socially awkward Catcher forms a peculiar bond with Space Boy Finn and while on the fringe of a blossoming friendship, Finn realises his new companion may be hiding a sinister nature.