For twelve years, Amari Sakura was held hostage in a hidden room down in the basement by her stepfather. When a sudden blackout finally sets her free, she stumbles into an apocalyptic version of Tokyo, where she has to fight for her life playing deadly games. Chishiya Shuntaro is a brilliant doctor who hides behind cold smirks and distant walls. He built them after his childhood best friend Sakura, vanished without a trace twelve years ago, only to be found 'dead'. Her disappearance left a void he could never fill, and now he hides behind indifference, refusing to let anyone close enough to hurt him again. What will become of two childhood best friends when fate reunites them in a world where love and friendship were never meant to exist?

𝓨𝐔𝐌𝐄𝐊𝐎 𝓜𝐈𝐙𝐔𝐊𝐈 was that doll you never wanted. A porcelain beauty left to rot in flower pressed graves. Perfect on the outside, yet empty within. Mizuki was someone forever bound within the walls of her little dollhouse with lace curtains and porcelain tea cups- keeping whatever is in there, there forever. 𝓢𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐎 𝓒𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐘𝐀 was a heart surgeon who didn't understand love. Didn't need love. He worked with careful precision and emotionless strategy that didn't require feelings. He didn't fix hearts, he learnt to understand them. Well, only theirs and never his own. He knew her, she knew him. But he'd let her go like something wrong in his bitter world of black and white. Because when two who used to love in a place like the Borderlands- who knows what shall happen. Will flowers bloom once more where the doll and cheshire cat walk together, or will the blossoms wilt and wither before even death kisses them goodbye? SHUNTARO CHISHIYA X FEMALE OC