The Last Higanbana

For you, I will cast aside my everything.
For you, I will walk a different path.
For you, I will be your shield.
For you, I will face the darkness.

For you....... I will wear my mask.
Even so, am I truly not worthy to be by your side?

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Even though he was to be the lord of the underworld, Rihito did not want his authority, wealth nor position - what he wanted was only one person. That person who saved him before he ascended the throne, that person who was the light of his dark past.

But nothing goes the way you want it to....
In the end, Rihito could only see that person from afar, loving and cherishing someone else. He could only hold onto that one flower that represented his time with that person.

Rihito preferred death over the suffering he had to endure, and yet -
His so called wishes were never granted. Never. From the very moment he was born, nothing he hoped for had ever happened.

"Living a second life.................only to suffer again." A pair of lonesome golden red eyes glimmered in the moonlight.