Liminal Drift

Why do dreams occur at night?

And what do they symbolize?

Are they fragments of an existing Multiverse?

Or are they just mere creations of our own intense feelings and emotions?

The question that even modern science failed to answer.

Meet Kaizen Mizuki, an ordinary high schooler living an extraordinary nightmare.

By day, he survives classrooms, bullying, and the quiet weight of expectations pressing down on him from every direction. By night, his sleep fractures into something far stranger, dreams that feel too real, spaces that exist between waking and reality, and fears that take shape and speak back.

At first, they are only dreams.
Then they begin to follow him.

As Kaizen drifts through liminal worlds where logic bends and fear becomes tangible, he learns that sleep is not an escape, but a doorway. What begins as psychological horror slowly unfolds into something vast, astral travel, higher dimensions, and cosmic beings that do not hate humanity... yet are willing to erase it without hesitation.

While galaxies burn and universes tremble beyond human perception, Kaizen still wakes up for school. He still laughs with friends. He still falls in love.

Aoi, a girl who is playful, teasing, and painfully human towards him becomes his anchor to a normal life, even as Kaizen is pulled further away from it. Between awkward lunches, quiet walks, and moments of fragile romance, he carries a truth no one else can see, that reality itself is unstable, and he may be the only one standing between the boundary of existence and collapse.

This is a slow burn story, blending slice-of-life warmth with psychological tension, scientific curiosity, and cosmic horror, Liminal Drift is a story about crossing boundaries, between dreams and waking, fear and courage, love and responsibility.

Because sometimes, survival isn't just about saving the universe...

It's about choosing to face it,
even when the cost is everything...

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P.S- Images in this story are all AI generated