A venerable immortal who had survived tribulations is reborn as an F-rank Guide, labeled a “defective” in the interstellar age. While every healing-type mental companion in the world recoils from her, her own Hellbone Bat feeds on mental miasma and contamination. Others soothe and guide; she devours and purifies.
From then on, the Empire’s top Sentinels, their minds on the verge of collapse and too dangerous for anyone to approach, become the perfect supplements for her to reforge her immortal bones. A war god, a mad aristocratic attack dog, a sickly prince, a beast-shifting general, a man-made weapon, and a deranged, devoted hound: six dangerous men go from contempt to obsession, from killing to fighting over her, yet all become prey unable to live without her soul-devouring treatment.
This is a Shura feast that feeds on madness. Seated on her dais, she lazily orders, “Line up. Anyone who cuts in line will have the filth in his brain thrown right back at him.”
