Himei (Scream) / Shincho Bunko / Novel / Rio Kushiki Eleven years after the abduction. The girl who survived was met with discrimination and her own skeletal remains. A shocking work by Rio Kushiki, author of "A Condition of Death." Sachi was a beautiful and intelligent girl. But she was kidnapped and held captive by a man for many years. Her education and youth were stolen, and she was forced to bear a child... but finally, the incident came to light, and she survived. However, that was the beginning of a new pain. Harassment and misunderstanding from residents who haven't changed their old-fashioned values exhaust her. One day, a box containing skeletal remains arrives. This is the real Sachi, it says. --What is at the root of the accumulating malice?