Beneath the Neon Lights

They're all male-male romances, and they're perfectly wholesome, so don't get any funny ideas.

303

The year is 2090, in X City.

The Upper District is a neon paradise floating above the clouds, while the abandoned harbor is a hell forgotten in the gutters.

Eric is the youngest prosthetics technician in the abandoned harbor. He scrapes by repairing prosthetic limbs, keeping alive the clinic his father left him.

Then one day, in a pile of trash in the Boneyard, he finds a man with only half a torso left.

Eric repairs him. When the man wakes, he has no name and claims to have lost his memory.

His eyes are so cold they seem not to belong to this world. So Eric gives him a name: 303.

Because of Eric, warmth begins to seep into 303's mechanical heart.

~

"Who are you?"

"...I don't remember."

"Are you going back?"

"No. I like your world."

Moonlight Boy

Carl is a freighter crewman.

During a sudden storm and dense fog, his ship veers off course and blunders onto a small island that doesn't appear on any map.

Everything on the island feels strange. The islanders are active only at night.

Carl thinks they've merely run aground for a little while, until he hears the islanders say that the spring water can grant immortality.

He sees with his own eyes as a person is dragged away from the altar after being sacrificed, never to return.

In the dungeon, he encounters a mysterious boy,

with white hair, gray-blue eyes, and scales on his back that glimmer silver in the moonlight. Pale and quiet.

His name is Lucas.

He isn't human.

It is only after meeting Carl that he experiences the human world.

~

"Will you leave with me?"

"Can you see the sunset in the outside world?"

Theme: Living happily is what it means to be alive.