Occupants of the Housen Grounds

For three hundred years, the Housen Grounds have held back a withering, flesh-eating fog known as the Shigai. The only thing keeping it contained is a blood-bound occupancy: two descendants must live within its rotting walls every night, or the bounds break.

Kiyomi walked away from the Meisho Cordon’s military ranks rather than feed innocent lives to their war machine. Branded a coward and a deserter, she has nowhere left to run when she is dragged to the Housen Grounds to serve as a replacement occupant. There, she meets Naoto—a rigid, arrogant loyalist of the very Cordon she despises, sworn to uphold the rules even as the estate tries to kill them both.

Tethered together in a haunted manor, they have to survive the Shigai’s nightly horrors and fulfill the Cordon's impossible demands. But as Kiyomi begins to use her unsanctioned combat tactics to carve out a foothold in the estate, the two bitter rivals realize the curse isn't a natural disaster. The institution they are desperately holding together might be the very thing that wants them dead.