The Other Shore Shop: No Return from the River of Forgetfulness

Chapter One: Forgetting

The night was as dark as ink. A cold wind carrying leftover snow beat against the mottled wooden door of the Otherworldly Flower Inn. A Yin sat behind the counter, gently turning a blue-green lantern between her fingertips. Its flickering flame stretched her shadow long across the mottled wall behind her, like an otherworldly flower swaying in the wind. There were few customers today. Only one boy.

He knelt before the counter, his face pale and his clothes thin, his lips purple with cold.

"What would you like to trade?" A Yin asked, her voice indifferent.

The boy raised his head, his eyes burning with a cold hatred.

"I want to kill him."

A Yin looked at him, her gaze falling on his tightly