The Slumbering Thousand Suns Return

I am a tantou born from the same source as Mikazuki Munechika, and I represent the sun.

The day an embassy ship took me to Tang, Mikazuki spoke for the first time beneath the moonlight: “Come back.”

After a thousand years of slumber, I awoke in a laboratory run by the Time Government, but I couldn't understand a word anyone said.

When I entered the Honmaru, Ishikirimaru's prayer bell suddenly rang on its own, and Kogitsunemaru's tail puffed up like a dandelion.

Mikazuki's hand froze in midair as he held his teacup, tea spilling across his gorgeous hunting robe.

He looked at me with the eyes of a child lost for a thousand years. “The sun... has been gone for so long that the moon has forgotten how to shine.”