The city trembles under a red moon and the dead walk with a hunger that isn’t merely soil and ash. Yuichiro, waking to ruin after the rescue that wasn’t a rescue, follows a trail of whispers and...
The city trembles under a red moon and the dead walk with a hunger that isn’t merely soil and ash. Yuichiro, waking to ruin after the rescue that wasn’t a rescue, follows a trail of whispers and iron will toward an unreachable promise: a place where blood is guarded, not spilled, and the moon’s glow is a shield more than a curse. In the alleys where memories cling to brick like frost, he learns to measure courage not by fearlessness but by the stubborn refusal to surrender to despair. Companionship with Mikaela and a circle of wary allies becomes a dangerous blade—one that cuts both hooded conspiracies and the quiet betrayals inside his own heart. Every decision pulls him toward a truth he never asked for and cannot escape, a truth that will choose him as surely as he chooses it. And as the vampires’ war encroaches, Yuichiro discovers that survival may demand a name he does not want to bear and a future he has to earn by weathering the night he never asked for.
