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Hanabi is a five-year-old orphan living in a world where magic is admired, feared, and often stained with blood. In a place where the strong rise above others and the weak are left behind, survival was never something taught to him gently. It was a reality forced upon him long before he could even understand the meaning of hardship. Everything begins to change after Hanabi witnesses a violent incident at the market involving knights, mages, and dangerous bandits. Amidst the chaos, something unknown falls into his possession. A mysterious magic pouch containing an impossible collection of strange items, relics that should not belong in the hands of a child like him. Yet among all of them, one object captures his attention more than anything else. A magic book. What started as curiosity slowly became the beginning of an irreversible change. As the days pass, Hanabi finds himself drawn deeper into a world far larger and crueler than he once believed. The more he learns, the more the world itself seems to respond to his existence. Danger begins appearing around him without warning, as though unseen eyes had started watching his every step. Encounters that should have been coincidences begin to feel deliberate. Survival becomes less about luck and more about enduring whatever comes next. At night, sleep offers him no comfort. Strange dreams begin to haunt him, carrying emotions and memories that do not belong to him. Fragments of another life. Another self. Feelings so vivid that even after waking, he can no longer tell whether they were merely dreams or something far more real. The fear, confusion, and loneliness slowly carve themselves into his mind, forcing him to mature in ways no child ever should. Without realizing it, Hanabi had already begun crawling forward through a path filled with danger, sacrifice, and truths he was never meant to uncover. And somewhere along that path, the line between who he is and what he may become quietly starts to blur. “Official cross-post of this novel is available on Royal Road and noveltoon"