Ghoul Work, Kurose, Volume 1

A BL manga that starts with a haunted meet-cute between a plain, unlucky schoolboy who can see spirits and the cool, stoic classmate who’s determined to catch his heart. A cute and spooky high school romance!

Yuuma Kurose can see things he shouldn't.

Since childhood, Yuuma has been haunted by the same recurring nightmare. After moving to his granny’s hometown, he finds himself returning to the very place from his dreams—a place that holds memories he can no longer recall.

There, he encounters Kaito, a young man surrounded by terrifying spirits. For reasons Yuuma can’t understand, Kaito looks at him with unwavering devotion and vows, “I swear I’ll protect you... No matter what.”

But when the spirits suddenly abandon Kaito and descend upon Yuuma instead, fragments of a forgotten past begin to surface. As the two are drawn together once more, the long-still currents of fate begin to flow again...
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Content Warnings: Mature themes, disturbing imagery, language, sexual content

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