MarySanderson40
In Buraza Town, everyone knows to stay away from Osoro Shidesu.
They call her a delinquent. A monster. A danger you don't get close enough to question.
Tall, scarred, and impossible to ignore-Osoro doesn't correct them. She doesn't need to. Words don't matter when people already decide what you are before you speak.
And she never stays long enough for anyone to change their mind.
Until Aoi Ryugoku.
A girl with an eyepatch, a sharp tongue, and a reputation of her own. Someone who doesn't exactly fear Osoro-but doesn't trust her either.
At first.
Because something about Osoro doesn't add up.
She warns instead of attacks.
She protects instead of destroys.
And when she looks at Aoi, it isn't like she's looking at prey.
It's like she's trying not to break something fragile with her presence alone.
But rumors don't die easily in Buraza Town.
And neither do old fears.
When Megami Saikou's carriage takes a wrong turn deep into the forest, she stumbles upon a castle no one remembers seeing before...
A castle that belongs to someone everyone has already decided is a monster.
Now Aoi is forced closer to the girl everyone warned her about.
And the closer she gets, the more she realizes-
Maybe the monster isn't the one locked inside the castle.
Maybe it's the story everyone has been telling about her.