Back When You Called Us Devils

Yusuke Saito is a normal high school kid...well, normal enough, except that he can’t remember anything from his life except the last six months. But when he starts to get confronted by people who insist they’re from his past, who allege that he did horrible things to them...suddenly Yusuke’s missing memories become crucial to remember. Otherwise, the skeletons in his closet may just make him a skeleton, too...

Yusuke Saito, with his former partner in crime Aizawa, has begun to delve into his own memories. It’s not long before the past is revealed to him—a past where he treated people like toys, thrilling to every human life he tormented. And at the end of all this nauseating behavior, Yusuke discovers the truth…and a dead body.

In order to protect his closest relations from those seeking revenge against him, Yusuke puts on the mask of a devil once more…even though there’s no longer a single remnant of the devil in him. Stricken by despair, he’s taken by a girl back to a seaside town…and there, he finds what he was looking for. Now the memories come flowing back, more vividly than ever…

Tracing the remaining fragments of his memory, Yusuke visits the seaside town he lived in with Akari Ichinose, the girl he hurt so badly. Then everything is revealed--his life with Akari, his memories of murder, and the facts behind his disappearance. The truth weighs heavily upon Yusuke, who thought he was detached from his own past...but there is no escaping the crimes he committed.

On a roof overlooking the city lights, Yusuke Saito—his memories now fully revived—confronts Akari Ichinose. She’s tormented by a curse that echoes deep within the night...and death seems like the most attractive way to escape it. The couple spent years loving, and killing, each other—perhaps this end was fated all along. But still, despite it all, they manage to find value in their lives...

In a mountainside village, Aoshi Fujimori lives with his sisters as they cower at the violence of their stepfather. To protect their lives and futures, the three of them begin living with a man they know nothing about. Their strange arrangement gives them solace for now...but in time, small cracks begin to form. Ten years after he disappeared, Yusuke Saito is still alive.

The bond between brother and sister, something they thought was stronger than anything else in their lives, is now straining, fraying, and threatening to rot away. To escape his staggering responsibility, Aoshi had no recourse but women and drink. As Yusuke Saito watches him destroy himself, another pursuer appears to reveal his own past crimes. Now multiple cases are intertwining with each other...and only the truth remains hidden, frozen in time.

Now the police are on the move...and Aoshi is taking the heat for murdering his stepfather. The detectives hit the streets in pursuit of Yusuke, searching for the truth behind the dead couple in the dam--but then a malicious hand approaches Onda, the reporter. Soon, an ending there’ll be no recovering from awaits them all, as the evil in people’s hearts expands beyond all control...

Nobody needs to be unhappy any longer. Striving to live up to his credo, Detective Shibasaki makes contact with Yusuke, a certain theory in his mind. Soon he learns the truth behind the two bodies found by the dam. As the story heads toward ultimate destruction, another life finds itself reaching its wretched, vain end...as another so-called "devil" enters the scene.

The truth finally reveals itself...and it’s an ugly sight. But the horrible tragedy is far from over. As the twin devils attempt to outfox each other, the past comes back to life in the form of Akari Ichinose. With her on the scene, events slowly but surely roll towards their thrilling climax.

The snow was too impatient to wait for the end to come. In pursuit of Onda, Yusuke has returned to Tokyo for the first time in ten years...only to be battered by the weight of the truth. Between Aizawa’s scheming, his mother’s betrayal, an unintended reunion with Tamaki, and Ichinose’s struggles, the devil does his business behind the scenes. Faced with stark betrayals and his own wounded mind and body, there’s no more wiping away the fatigue. But there’s people who need to be saved.

All things must come to an end--even a crime as cruelly twisted and tangled as this one; even a tragedy that continues to draw more and more people in...and even a soul-crushing life. That night, in a snowy ruin, Aoshi Fujimori makes his move as the devils around him bare their fangs. When the deceiving is done, who will emerge alive? Who is trusted, who is betrayed...and who will be the one that kills me?

Twenty years on from the nightmare that visited the Morikawa family, a woman appears at a certain seaside town. She’s been traveling around, gathering information about Yusuke Saito’s story—and she’s introducing herself as Yusuke’s daughter. Now Sumire Okazaki has reached out to Akari Ichinose, telling her about a five-year gap in Yusuke’s life that nobody knows about. But who really was the devil this whole time, and what was the crime committed?

The crimes of the past spread across town, eating into everyone’s peaceful lives. The townspeople are transformed, disfigured by justice run amok. But amid the unfair persecution, Yusuke Saito continues facing up to his sins. And as Sumire Okazaki reveals the final pieces of the puzzle, one question remains: Who was the real devil all along? The modern tale of crime and punishment reaches its suspenseful end!