Yoshikified
For one hundred and twenty-seven years, humanity has been trapped in the Fluid Sky, surviving on the back of The Kurokami-a colossal, nine-tailed sky-ray that filters the toxic air in exchange for the life force of the promising young.
Sixteen-year-old Yoshiki is unmarked.
Slow, invisible, and physically average, he is deemed entirely expendable by the village Elders.
His best friend, Hikaru, a brilliant Zephyr-Weaver, a golden boy marked by their monstrous god to become its living prey, soon to be sacrificed to it.
The two sent on a suicidal scavenging mission over the bottomless black void of The Deep, the unthinkable happens.
Deep within a prehistoric fungal forest, Hikaru is brutally torn in half by an ambush plant monster.
Yoshiki is left entirely alone in the suffocating mist.
Until Hikaru walks out of the fog.
He smiles the exact same reckless, charming smile, but he isn't Hikaru.
Now, trapped in a toxic web of grief, forbidden attraction, and skin-crawling body horror, Yoshiki must become a protective accomplice to a lethal deep-sea monster, hiding its true identity from the suspicious village scouts and the hunger of their nine-tailed leviathan.
Now, they explore what 'Hikaru' is in secrecy.
What's really inside of him, and if he's a leviathan, or if he's a whole class above a leviathan...