Stakeholders (Shichoson)

A talent manager and Natsumi Itaike are systematically broken into drug-dependent puppets to settle a 300-million-yen debt, with the idol Misora secretly engineering their suffering while feigning friendship. The manager undergoes a complete psychological collapse, romanticizing her own subjugation as devoted love and becoming a delusional accomplice trapped in a cycle of exploitation. A satirical afterword mocks the graphic content, while an abstract epilogue confirms the manager’s total erasure—a hollow vessel whose only identity comes from Misora’s validation.