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When Mochi-a raccoon of delicate manners and a healer's spirit-is dragged into the imposing mansion of the Shishigumi, his fate seemed sealed: to be just another victim on the blood-stained chessboard of the Black Market. His arrival was met with no red carpet, but rather with the cold touch of steel and the ruthless abuse of the Boss, a lion who understands only power and submission. To the carnivore world, Mochi was merely "merchandise," a fragile toy in a den of monsters.
However, what no one expected was that the Shishigumi wouldn't devour him... they would adopt him.
From tending to bullet wounds in the dead of silent nights to defying the authority of the city's most feared carnivores, Mochi begins an impossible metamorphosis. Amidst betrayals, ambushes from rival gangs, and the suffocating hierarchy of the mafia, the small raccoon finds an unexpected ally in Ibuki, the second-in-command. Ibuki-a lion marred by physical scars and the dark branding numbers of a past as a slave-sees in Mochi something he believed was lost forever: humanity.
This is the chronicle of a forbidden coexistence. It is the story of how a prey became the beating heart of a pack of predators, transforming a mansion of death into a home where honor is measured in loyalty and love is the most dangerous risk of all.
Welcome to the Shishigumi. Here, hunger is the law, but affection is a death sentence.