Ten years after General Chu Zhou, the Empire’s brightest star, fell, the Marshal brought back a young man from a remote star system.
The youth had a face identical to General Chu Zhou’s, only younger and more innocent. His identity could be determined from his face alone.
He was the younger brother General Chu Zhou had once mentioned, the one he loved most.
The Trench is not actually beneath an ocean. In an age when interstellar travel is commonplace for humanity, the ocean is no longer mysterious. The Trench refers to the deepest part of the most dangerous region in the universe.
People call it the Monster’s Nest.
All monsters are born there. Its darkness spreads like a tide, and its peculiar tides measure the likelihood that this darkness will devour everything.
General Chu Zhou perished there.
The youth was named Chu Ze.
Yet people were always looking at him with all kinds of expressions, silently repeating another name in their hearts.
After all, General Chu Zhou had once been dazzling beyond compare. His relationship with the other geniuses could hardly be described as the stars orbiting the moon.
He was the sun, the one and only sun.
Now, the sun had fallen. The youth with the same face looked fragile and utterly unremarkable, as though he could easily be manipulated and controlled. It seemed anyone could use that identical face as an outlet for their dark desires.
But was that really the case?
Chu Ze was the most terrifying monster sleeping in the deepest part of the Trench. He had come ashore in search of his kin, and after a long journey, he had finally found a human.
The human watched him with a greedy, complicated gaze. Chu Ze did not take his soul right away, because the human bore the mark of having once been raised by his older brother.
No matter what, one ought to show a pet some leniency.
Then the human introduced Chu Ze to more humans who bore that mark.
These humans all had their own schemes and motives, but who cared?
Chu Ze certainly didn’t.
He was only looking after these little playthings for his brother for a while.
On certain remote planets, the mythological name Narcissus has another meaning.
“Don’t stare at the water for too long. You’ll see Narcissus’s reflection in it, and then your soul will be lured away by Them.”
* A peerlessly beautiful, inhuman, emotionless tentacle monster seme x a purebred human uke who doesn’t mind that the other is a tentacle monster because he’s so handsome and cute
* At its heart, this is the story of a little mermaid finding another, bigger mermaid
* As of September 5, 2023. This may be revised later.
Theme: No love triangles, please
