Chapter 54: Yokohama Burial

Chapter 54: Yokohama Burial

The air on the Yokohama pier was heavy with the weight of the drowned. The Siren’s song had stopped being a melody and had become a physical pressure, a high-pitched vibration that made Ren’s teeth ache and his blackened right arm throb with phantom fire.

Ren stood five paces away from the Guardian. The iron-clad figure didn’t breathe. There was no rise and fall of a chest, no mist coming from the visor in the damp air. But the intent coming off the man was a tsunami. It was the sharp, crystalline focus of the Shinen-ryu, twisted by the salt and the rot of the God of Death.

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