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BEFORE: Prior to his Jagan surgery, Hiei fights to survive among Demon World's riffraff, but when he meets Nozumi, he discovers there's more to living than being the last demon standing. AFTER: Years after the Demon World Tournament, the tracker Nozumi receives an offer she can't refuse—find the missing apparition Yukina and a fortune can be hers. If her heart can bear it.
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Looking back, it had been then she’d fallen in love with him.
Not lust or infatuation or curiosity.
Proper, world-defining love.
Now, heart in her throat, she flipped to the last page, unearthing the slip of well-worn paper she’d long ago tucked in the binding. His writing had faded, years—and her fingertips—dulling the ink, but she could make out the words. No demons with a death wish.
She ran a nail along each letter, aching for the comfortable life they’d built, the nights they’d tangled in her sheets, the dinners together, the bathhouse visits. For those brief two years, he’d been a steadying presence, flickering like a flame, sometimes close, sometimes far, but always warm. If she could go back and live those days again, she would in a heartbeat—even knowing the heartbreak that would come.