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Intro. The story is set in a transitional era — silk and steel, ritual and modernity colliding. Japan still breathes through paper walls, lacquered floors, ceremonial kimonos, and candlelit corridors washed in red and black. Music is played on strings, bodies are trained to move with grace, and beauty is disciplined into survival. This is a world where bathing is ritual, silence is taught, and elegance is armor. Aoi was raised inside this world — curated, controlled, and prepared long before he understood what he was being prepared for.

Tsukishiro Aoi

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