No.6

In a future where humanity has coalesced into a handful of seemingly utopian city-states, the privileged Shion’s world is turned upside down by a chance encounter. On a stormy night, he offers shelter to a mysterious boy named Nezumi, an escaped fugitive from the city’s correctional facility. This impulsive act of kindness shatters Shion’s carefully constructed reality, exposing him to the dark underbelly of the society he once believed flawless. Their paths diverge, only to intertwine again years later under far more dangerous circumstances. As a sinister plague begins to quietly decimate the population, Shion and Nezumi find themselves drawn into a desperate struggle against the very system that created their perfect, yet terrifyingly flawed, world. Their diverging ideals and shared destiny will force them to confront the true cost of paradise.

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