Tokyo, 1936. Kudou Sousuke is a talented pianist who regularly performs at a jazz bar called "CADENZA." One night, out of the blue, he finds himself in a pickle when a frenzied geisha suddenly attacks him on his way home. Despite being battered and bruised, Sousuke manages to weather the storm and makes a hasty exit. The following day at work, Sousuke learns that the geisha has been found murdered, and he is the prime suspect. The news spreads like wildfire, and the bar's owner gives Sousuke the boot, unwilling to risk the bar's reputation by employing a fugitive. Finding himself between a rock and a hard place, Sousuke goes on the lam, unable to return home where his sister Yuzuha anxiously awaits. After wandering aimlessly, he crosses paths with a gorgeous yet haughty woman with a shady background. She offers Sousuke a safe haven, but there's no such thing as a free lunch; he must agree to do some tasks on the wrong side of the law. Fate takes an unexpected turn when, a few days later, Sousuke rescues a young woman named Ayane from a gang of ruffians. He realizes she is the same person who steered him clear of the military police on the night of the geisha's attack. Grateful for the rescue, Ayane vows to help Sousuke get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding the geisha's death and clear his name once and for all.

[b]March 1956.[/b] In a Tokyo that’s slowly returning to its former glory after losing the war ten years prior, Private Detective Reiji Tokisaka takes on the case of a girl he meets in Inokashira Park. “I want you to find something… Me. My true self.” A wave of bizarre and grotesque crimes has been crashing down on the city. The victims, all young women, are being kidnapped and murdered, each corpse only to be discovered with a body part and the uterus removed. Sergeant Uozumi, Tokisaka’s childhood friend and former coworker, asks him to investigate the murders. Meanwhile, sitting off in a corner of the town of Hoya is Oba Girls’ Academy, the school Tokisaka’s younger sister goes to and where two students have recently disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The vice principal of this academy, Tokio Saeki, implores Tokisaka to find them. Having taken on all three of these cases, and with Vice Principal Tokio’s approval, Tokisaka enters Oba Girls’ Academy as a teacher in order to dig up information about the students. It’s there that he meets her again. Toko Kuchiki, the girl who asked him to look for her true self, with a voice as light and as clear as a bell and a casual way of speaking that doesn’t match it. “Heya. Figured I’d be seeing you soon, Detective.” More and more victims turn up as the days pass, and the investigation he thought would be oh-so-easy stalls. For some reason, the number of disappearances and unidentified bodies don’t add up. And the newest victim is— The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy, and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile. [From [url=https://shiravune.com/archives/4394]Shiravune's description of The Shell Part I: Inferno[/url]]

Innocent Grey fandisc featuring short stories and mini-games based on Innocent Grey works such as Cartagra and PP-pianisimo-.