Kokuro

After receiving a message from Rin ASHIBA, the girl he's in love with, Sora ISOSHI goes to a classroom at his high school where Rin had asked him to meet. But when he gets to the classroom, he finds himself alone. Thinking it was a joke, he leaves the room, but once outside, in what should be the corridor of his high school, he sees instead a large white room where, sitting on a throne at the back of the room, is Rin ASHIBA.

She tells him that he has been chosen by the Tower to try and climb it and become its new king.

But as he wasn't born into this world, he doesn't have the ability to use what all the inhabitants of the planet are able to use, the Ushi.

So Sora is given a strange power. A power with which he will try to climb the Tower, trying to fulfil Rin's wish and thus become the new King of the Tower.

The Tower King

Sora swallowed, his hands still clutching his weapon. He wanted to help, he wanted to move, but he knew he'd be more of an obstacle than an asset. Yet he refused to look away. He had to memorize Jarek's every move, the Mist-Reaper's every reaction. He knew it would come in handy one day. 


The creature, now wounded, redoubled its aggression. It leapt towards Jarek, its claws ripping through the air at impressive speed. But Jarek dodged again, his suppleness and control making his movements almost supernatural. He counter-attacked with surgical precision, aiming at the beast's weak points: the joints of its limbs, the less protected areas of its abdomen. 


Yet the Mist-Reaper seemed to thrive on the tension of combat. Every wound made him faster, more vicious. His tail suddenly slammed into Jarek, who this time, despite his speed, couldn't completely avoid it. He was struck on the shoulder and thrown against a dead tree trunk. 


“Jarek!” shouted Sora, a mixture of panic and instinct. 


Mist-Reaper (2)