RAIKU MAKOTO

Oneshot from "Raiku Makoto" festival, a series of manga works running in lots of different magazines through the months of September and October 2009.

Mariko is stuck in a job where she is constantly messing things up and being berated, to the point where she almost wants to just give up entirely. She accepts an invitation to go offroad motorbiking with some guys, to relieve her job stress and possibly even find something in her life she can enjoy. 

Chao, a wheelchair-bound little boy, is excited to be finally going to school to make friends with people his own age! But when he gets to his homeroom, the weirdness begins. Reality is warped and the children slowly realize that their teacher is a monster in disguise. This monster teacher is capable of inflicting a horrible punishment on students that are unable to answer his question about punctuation. Will any of the students be able to discover the answer before it is too late?