At the age of 20, Onoda Shizuru decided to begin living alone. She is supported by her mother, Utako, and her friends despite being opposed by her father Kuranosuke. On midnight of her long awaited day of beginning to live alone, she is woken up by a pounding knock on her door. She soon sees a newspaper pushed through. When she picks it up, she discovers it's called a "Horror Newspaper" and it details an event a few days later where a young woman will fall and die. Shizuru, while working at her part time job, discovers the exact scenario playing out when she witnesses a high school girl commit suicide. Meanwhile, Detective Shinozaki is looking into the incident and the elderly man, Fuyuyo, photographed at the scene.