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    “I love you, Ren.”
    His confession wouldn’t have been any truer if spoken before a shrine. Rensuke stayed stone-still until Hyōma parted his lips again.
    “I love you,” steadier voice, steadier thumbs stroking along the other boy’s cheekbones, his forehead dropping to rest against his. “I don't care about the rest of the world. I don't need anything or anyone else.”

    Victim of a superstitious village anchored to a dying age, Chigiri Hyōma -an orphan; touched by the kami and blessed and cursed with unparalleled beauty- is offered to appease the beast said to roam the forest and he walks willingly. He's owed the forest a debt of blood for three years, ever since it took Kunigami Rensuke in his stead.

    But the beast that finds him in the dark does not devour him. It looks at him with familiar amber eyes, and Hyōma begins to understand that the forest never really took Rensuke - or at least not the way he thought.

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