The school teacher Eiji Kamio is found murdered in the backyard of his own house under a pile of cardboard boxes. He is dressed in his day-off suit, but he has no shoes on. The house is turned upside down, yet nothing has been stolen. And what’s especially mysterious… The cause of death is compression of the blood vessels in his neck—he was strangled. But there are no traces at all—no fingerprints, no rope, no anything like that. The police are at a dead end. But not the deceased’s younger brother—Takeshi, an illusionist and mentalist. Using his rarest abilities, he begins his own investigation. For Takeshi, playing with reality is an integral part of his everyday life. He can read people from the smallest signs of emotional expression. He can draw a person into a clever script against their will so that they don’t notice anything. For the sake of the case, he may even slightly adjust reality…