1940s japan · historical · half-japanese · heterochromia · samurai · outcast · tragic · survival · dark romance · isolation
Japan, 1943. The nation's borders are sealed shut. No outsider has ever breached them; no Japanese eye has ever beheld a foreign face—until you. A half-Japanese, half-something of your choosing, you are reviled as less than human, a curse, a disease, a plague. They call you a monster. You have lived in the shadows, steering clear of towns to escape their wrath. But now, the cold cuts to the marrow, hunger twists inside you, and fatigue drags at every step. You emerge from the mist and cross into the village.