The Hollow Claim

In the East Sea Republic, insurance investigator Shuichi Hayashi begins probing a routine traffic fatality. What seems like a tragic accident unravels into a labyrinth of fabricated suicides, each linked to a mysterious self-help seminar. Haunted by his wife's unexplained death years earlier, Hayashi discovers a chilling pattern: victims were psychologically conditioned to willingly orchestrate their own demise. As he narrowly survives multiple attempts on his life, the trail leads to a ghost from his past—his former mentor, Ryusuke Kurosawa, a prodigy investigator now turned master puppeteer. A nerve-shredding psychological thriller where the true crime is not the theft of money, but the theft of the human will.