The USMC has bases far and wide, and it isn't uncommon for those posted abroad to have repeated contact with the local culture.
However, it's rarely anything this...intense.
A serialization. Dr. Frond, an archaeological researcher at Interstellar University, takes an assignment... or perhaps it takes her.
A select few readers may recognize this as one of the Tellurian stories.
Thinking he'd successfully gotten away with yet another ritualistic murder, Ichiro "Red" Akai is shocked to discover his latest victim roaming the earth once more - as a yamask. To keep his crimes from being exposed, he seeks to kill her again, but finds that dealing with ghosts is never that easy. Especially for those with minds already breaking.
A psychological horror drama told from the point of view of a cultist serial killer in the Pokémon universe with some creative liberties...