"ꜰᴀʟʟɪɴɢ ᴏᴜᴛ ᴏꜰ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ɪꜱ ʜᴀʀᴅ, ꜰᴀʟʟɪɴɢ ꜰᴏʀ ʙᴇᴛʀᴀʏᴀʟ ɪꜱ ᴡᴏʀꜱᴇ." 𝐈𝐊𝐄𝐃𝐀 𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐀 has always been the kind of person who wants to help. Quietly selfless, a little too sentimental for her own good - the type to donate blood without thinking twice. But when her donation gets rejected for "unknown reasons," she starts to wonder if maybe she doesn't belong as much as she thought she did. And then there's 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐘𝐀 𝐒𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐎. The doctor with a smirk that cuts deeper than a scalpel, and words colder than the sterile hospital air. "ꜱᴏᴍᴇ ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ'ꜱ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴅᴏᴇꜱɴ'ᴛ ʙᴇʟᴏɴɢ ɪɴ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ." Their paths shouldn't have crossed again. But in the Borderlands, fate has a cruel sense of humor. In a land where every drop matters, what happens when your blood defines your worth? 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐃 - chishiya x oc

𝓨𝐔𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐈 𝓜𝐈𝐔𝐑𝐀's daily life focuses on taking lifes, living off every stolen breath. She more enjoyed seeing a corpse than an alive human. Assuming she was capable of feeling. People more often were calling her "Ningyō"-to show how empty she's on the inside, under her cracked skin. 𝓢𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐑Ō 𝓒𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐘𝐀 focuses on saving lives, trying to find out if his own is worth saving. Ever since he started college and even as a surgical intern, he hasn't been able to find the answer to his question. He claims that he lives only to show others how empty a human can be. 𝓞ne born to take lives, the other born to save them. A world in which there is no room for morality, nor principles, let alone for judging who is good and who is evil. 𝓓espite theoretical differences, they see each other as their reflection. Both unaware of the meaning of life. Both empty as porcelain dolls. 𝓑ut are even two identical, morbid souls even capable of tolerating each other? ──── 🃚 ──── started: may 23th, 2025 ended: n/a status: incomplete

𝐔𝐏𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄! ʙᴀꜱᴇᴅ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʟɪᴄᴇ ɪɴ ʙᴏʀᴅᴇʀʟᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴇʀɪᴇꜱ. 1𝖘𝖙 𝖛𝖔𝖑𝖚𝖒𝖊 "𝙸 𝚐𝚘𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝙱𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚒 𝚜𝚞𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚢 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎. 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚏𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚜, 𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚏𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚞𝚎𝚜...𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚖𝚎𝚝 𝚊 𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚗. 𝙷𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚖𝚢 𝚜𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚛."

𝐔𝐏𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄! ʙᴀꜱᴇᴅ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʟɪᴄᴇ ɪɴ ʙᴏʀᴅᴇʀʟᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴇʀɪᴇꜱ. 2𝖓𝖉 𝖛𝖔𝖑𝖚𝖒𝖊 "𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗'𝚝 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚢𝚎𝚝. 𝚆𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚛. 𝚆𝚎'𝚟𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝚊 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚕𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚕. 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐: 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚜."

Nāko Murakami- a 21 year old girl who was a guitarist in the real world. Her heart has chains all around covering it bulit by past lessons and hardships. But once in the borderlands she learns that letting someone in isn't a weakness -its progress. Hikari Kuina-a 22 year old girl who worked at a boutique shop in the real world. But originally was supposed to be a karatist. She had been kicked out by her father at the age of 14-15. She eventually stops smoking just so she could live longer to see her sick mother. But then she meets someone- -Nāko. She learns to view life in her perspective.

⸻ ❛ Wonder How I Managed To End Up In This Place . ❜ 𝕮𝖍𝖎𝖘𝖚𝖐𝖊 𝕬𝖐𝖊𝖒𝖎 . . . An 𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 Yokohama librarian who tends to 𝒐𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒗𝒆 people's every move but is barely 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏. &&. 𝕮𝖍𝖎𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖞𝖆 𝕾𝖍𝖚𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖔̄ . . . A 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒆𝒕 surgeon from Tokyo who ever only thinks about himself but somehow 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔 her immediately, slowly starting to 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆. ©kayano_uzumaki, 2025.

𝐓𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐚 𝐘𝐮𝐮𝐦𝐚 lived by obligation, never by his own terms. But there was one person who allowed him freedom. 𝐊𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐢 𝐊𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧 was just your average girl. Never stepped out of line but wasn't afraid to stand up for herself. She lived for the thrill of things. One day, a day that seemed like any other. Shibuya was packed with people, people who had places to go and people to see. But there was one abnormality. 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬. Suddenly both of them were stuck in a place where life wasn't guaranteed. A place where power equalled control over others. And they had to begin playing by its rules

𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐊𝐀𝐈𝐘𝐀 𝐃𝐎𝐃𝐎 found a strange vitality in the borderlands, a place where survival was a daily battle. It was an oddity, this sense of aliveness amidst constant danger, as if the very act of fighting for her life was what made her feel most real. 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐎 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐘𝐀 Shuntaro Chishiya found an inner death in the borderlands, a stark contrast to his life as a heroic surgeon. He was now haunted by the helplessness of sacrificing lives for his own survival, a burden that weighed heavily on his soul. In the borderlands, their paths collide, sparking a turmoil of vengeance and protection. Kaiya, consumed by grief, does everything in her power to torment Chishiya, the man she holds responsible for her brother's death. Yet, Chishiya, burdened by his failure, becomes Kaiya's silent guardian, driven by the belief that while he couldn't save her brother, he can still save Kaiya from the games, but mostly from herself. Cover By: @fl0wer._erihh