Status Updates From Fool Night, tome 2

This is not the direction I expected this to go. I was thinking this would end up more like Mushishi or the anime Mononoke. But it's more like a dystopian thriller that just happens to have weird plant elements to the story. Also, if I had a nickel for every time lately I've picked up a manga and it turned out to be about a pianist even though I didn't know it had a pianist in it...I would have exactly 2 nickels.