The Silent Forest and the King of the Underworld: Flow of the Eternal Tide
The canopy overhead was a dense, suffocating ceiling of black leaves, blocking out all but the eerie, golden glow of the floating clocks drifting through the air like displaced spirits. The gears within them ticked backward, an unsettling reminder that time did not function normally within this realm. Masaki rested his hand near his collar, his sharp eyes cutting through the gloom. "I’ve never seen a place as dark as this before," he murmured, his voice low so it wouldn't carry into the abyss of the trees. "That's why they call it the Dark, and an evil dwells here—an old and wicked evil. There's a guardian there, and anyone who has tried to fight him has never been seen again." Kagimi stood beside him, the golden rings of his earrings catching the faint luminescence of a passing clock dial. He turned his gaze toward the blonde man leaning against a ruined trunk. "So, what are you doing here all alone?" Kagimi asked. "Shouldn't you be g...