A Mistaken Kiss, A Cocoon of Love

She is his most devoted believer, and also his most special “food.”

In the courtyard, where the air carries the faint fragrance of lotus blossoms, sunlight always stops three steps away from him. He gives her false warmth, altered memories, and a child who should never have existed: a forbidden child named “Inosuke.”

Until her blood-soaked memories awaken, and she pushes the real child back into the light with her own hands, then turns and steps into an even deeper darkness. That night, she offers herself to him with a kiss stained with blood: “Please eat me.”

He does not eat her. Instead, he grants her another kind of eternity, turning her into a being like himself and keeping her forever in a sunless nest.

Thus, two “Inosukes” are born: one runs beneath the sun, while the other grows in the shadows.

Their reunion in the entertainment district tears away the mask of tenderness. When the two children wear identical clothes and compete for the same “mother,” this carefully woven lie finally nears its breaking point.

The deepest cages are often woven from the gentlest threads.

And on the day the cocoon breaks, only the fiercest light can burn away every false warmth.

When dawn pierces the eternal night, who will find release, and who will turn to ash?

This is a love story that begins with a mistaken kiss and ends in self-immolation, if it can be called love.