Blood on the Tracks manga volume 13 features story and art by Shuzo Oshimi.

It's been 20 years since his mother told Seiichi that she renounced motherhood, since she thanked him for being a killer, since he tried to strangle her there in the courtroom—and somehow he made it through. Living alone, working the night shift at a commercial bakery, barely speaking to his father, Seiichi's life is solitary and empty, and he likes it that way. But nothing lasts forever...

The grand preface is over—and now the real story begins!!

Blood on the Tracks manga volume 14 features story and art by Shuzo Oshimi.

Seiichi is back home for the first time in ages to inter his father's remains in the family grave. After that, he'll be finished, nothing left to hold him in this world...until he happens to bump into Fukiishi, resurrecting all the feelings he had buried along with his past—

Will Seiichi finally find peace in death? Or will the specters of the past keep him here against his will...?

Blood on the Tracks manga volume 15 features story and art by Shuzo Oshimi.

Having finally found himself free to end it all, Seiichi is pulled back from the brink by a telephone call from the police: "We have your mother in protective custody."

Facing Seiko for the first time in twenty years, Seiichi finds an old woman who neither recognizes him nor seems to fully recognize herself. And yet, during their strange reunion, her memories return.
Seiichi's rage erupts, but he cannot bring himself to strike the woman who plagued his thoughts all these years.

And later, the feelings in his heart draw him inexorably back to her side...

Thus begins their long, long night together—and Seiichi gets his first glimpse into the true source of the darkness within his mother.

Blood on the Tracks manga volume 16 features story and art by Shuzo Oshimi.

The tale of Seiko’s past draws to a close, and Seiichi is left with one central, burning question: “Why did you ‘kill’ me?”

Once that question has been answered, can some kind of relationship between mother and child be resurrected?

The long night is over—now what will the dawn bring?

Blood on the Tracks manga volume 17 features story and art by Shuzo Oshimi.

Seiichi brings Seiko back to his place, and the two of them are under one roof again. But she has lost the will to live after her accident, and Seiichi resigns himself to the task of watching his mother slowly fall apart. Their final conversation unfolds in dream, while Seiichi himself is the object of another dreamer's thoughts…