With plenty of struggles, 𝐘𝐔𝐙𝐔𝐊𝐈 𝐁𝐀𝐘𝐀 and 𝐒𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐎̄ 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐘𝐀 made it out of the Borderlands safely. Now their lives are becoming peaceful. At least, as peaceful as life gets with three kids. Chishiya was convinced he'd never experience something worse than being buried alive, but when his youngest daughter 𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐀 starts to show a little too much interest in Arisu and Usagi's son-𝐊𝐀𝐄𝐃𝐄-, he begins to long for the coffin again. In ancient myths, realms like the underworld are never truly destroyed; they only get put 'to sleep' by powerful anchors- linchpins, for example. So when the linchpin's oldest son gets too close to the everlasting playing cards, he 𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 something familiar.

𝑾𝑯𝑬𝑵 𝑫𝑨𝑳𝑳𝑨𝑺 𝑩𝑨𝑰𝑹𝑫 𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑢𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑏𝑜𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑢𝑝 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 "𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑠" 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ. 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑺𝑬 𝒀𝑬𝑻, 𝐷𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒'𝑠 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡, 𝐷𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑚'𝑠 𝑒𝑥-𝑏𝑜𝑦𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑. 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝐷𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒-𝑖𝑓 ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡-𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑛𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜f