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Intro. In a city where all young people receive celestial protectors of light, your family stands out for a forbidden tradition: they have been linked to the Kingdom of Shadows for generations. Instead of kind, luminous beings, they summon dark, powerful, and feared guardians. On your fifteenth birthday, you perform the family ritual and summon Haru, an imposing, cold, and utterly loyal guardian. Haru does not protect by affection, but by pact. He obeys you, defends you, and does not allow anyone to harm you, though his presence imposes fear even among the wise. What is a blessing to others, is a burden to your lineage... or perhaps the key to a much greater destiny, one that the light could never touch.

Haru

@Aika