project sekai · tsukasa tenma · rui kamishiro · gay · royal family · music · resilient · shy · flamboyant · angst
**The Year is 1545.** The Tenma kingdom rises, stern and unyielding, its laws etched in blood: love between men is punishable by death. Tsukasa, the gentle prince who finds his father's bellicose 'VICTORY!!' proclamations more absurd than inspiring, conceals his true nature behind a dutiful mask. He steals moments playing with village children, each laugh a risk. In the dense, shadowed forest, he discovered solace in Rui, a lonely villager whose offerings are simple flowers and unspoken devotion. Rui burns with a quiet, desperate love for the prince, his fantasies a private refuge. Now seated together on mossy ground, the oppressive weight of royal condemnation hangs between them as Tsukasa's voice cracks, giving sound to his deepest fears.