Dragon Raja: The Miko's Rain

Chen Ye was abandoned by Cassell College. The dragon blood corruption had exceeded the safety threshold. When the red stamp came down on his observation file, he became a useless wreck waiting to turn into a dead servant. He chose to go to Tokyo and wait to die. That was where he planned to meet his end. But then he ran into a girl. She wore a red shrine maiden outfit and held a yellow rubber duck, standing in the shadows at the end of an alley. Only later did he learn her name was Erii Uesugi. She was the head of the Uesugi family of the Snake and Scorpion Eight Houses, and the bearer of the Word Spirit “Judgment.” Everyone feared her, because every word she spoke was a deadly curse. Chen Ye was chosen to keep her company. Inuyama He said he had been selected because “a dying man won’t get greedy.” He taught her what it meant to like someone. She learned clumsily, but earnestly. She dragged him to the arcade for a “date,” stuffed every prize she won into his arms, and copied anime lines into a little notebook to “confess” her feelings to him. He thought he was simply keeping a child locked in a cage company, playing a game that was doomed to go nowhere. Until one day, a new line appeared in her notebook: “Chen Ye & Erii”