They said it was haunted, that old department store at the edge of the city. Sometimes at night, you could see a boy there. He would go to the roof and look down over the district with sad, unblinking eyes. But if you spotted him, he would notice and would run. And then, he would suddenly disappear, like he had never been there at all.

When Adachi decided to receive punishments for his deeds, this wasn't what he had been thinking of. (One Shot. Written for dancingpurge @tumblr)