Ren Karibata is only nineteen when his life crumbles in an instant. Once a young trade administrator in the flourishing village of Riverbrick, Ren watches everything he loves burn to ash when the Kingdom of Suragato launches a brutal surprise attack. His parents are killed. His home reduced to rubbl

While at work, a cryptic text message shatters Kyodai Nagase's world: "Aokigahara. Don't wait for me." Fearing the worst for his younger sister Yosei, Kyodai races against time through Japan's darkness, desperate to prevent her from taking her own life in the infamous Suicide Forest. A near-fatal c

Volume 1: Welcome to the Twilight Institute I board this metal contraption dubbed an aeroplane, hurtling through the sky, for education’s farce—how foolish. Schools, like puppets, exploit minds, shaping them into acquiescent tools. Power lies not in knowledge, but in breaking free from the chains o