Soul of the Exile: A Solitary Bloom

All of humanity's positive and negative emotions, fulfilled and unfulfilled wishes, forgotten and remembered memories, and the consciousness that enters and “dissolves” there upon death, along with the many wills within that consciousness, have shaped that place. The Abyss, the Netherworld, the Sea of the Dead... It has many names. It is where the souls of the dead go. Together with the material world of reality, it makes up the true universe. Death is not the only way to reach “there.” Now and then, living people who enter deep meditation briefly appear on its surface. More rarely still, a tiny handful venture deep within...

One day, a sensitive, tormented boy sank into the Sea of the Dead and entered the Netherworld. Still himself, he descended to the very bottom of the Abyss, the seabed of the Sea of the Dead: the depths of Naraku. He unleashed the power of his soul and made a wish upon the primordial stone of his soul... From that moment on, the boundaries between concepts and matter, existence and essence, truth and illusion, light and darkness, life and death all began to blur...