The LAND Of The MISTS!
The Land of the Mist is a sweeping tale of reincarnation, betrayal, and the thin line between ordinary life and the uncanny.
Once, he was Kokuro—a dutiful person who lived cleanly, worked responsibly, and tried to be the moral pillar his family could depend on. He died in disgrace instead: smothered in debt, abandoned by a wife who chose another, and disowned by the very sons he had sacrificed everything for. At the end of that bitter life, he swore that if fate ever gave him another chance, he would never be used again. He would live only for himself.
Fate listened.
Reincarnated as Emeritus Akihito, heir to the most powerful noble house in the empire of Serathis, he inherits a life of wealth, servants, and the kind of effortless luxury he once resented from afar. But the empire is divided—between the gilded boots of nobility and the crushed faces of the downtrodden—and Akihito has no desire to serve either side. His vow is simple: remain unseen, cause chaos, and reject the world.
Yet his attempts at ruin twist into miracles. The fires he sets burn out corruption. The rumors he spreads topple tyrants. Each cruel act inadvertently ushers peace and prosperity. Legends grow around him, whispered in nursery rhymes and tavern songs. Children trade ghost stories of The Figure of the Mist, a shadowy trickster who walks in fog-shrouded nights.
But Akihito knows the truth. That figure already exists. He has seen it watching him from the mist, faceless and patient. He has read its name in storybooks that should not exist. Every night the fog thickens, pressing closer, writing him deeper into a story that seems older than the empire itself.
Slice-of-life serenity clashes with creeping dread as Akihito navigates noble courts, village festivals, and simple meals that feel like holy luxuries—while shadows coil, gods whisper, and the line between myth and memory dissolves.
The Land of the Mist is a haunting epic where fate cannot be defied, only sharpened, and every act of rebellion writes another page in a legend already foretold.