On the Night the Stars Fall, the Ash Mage Laughs

On the night the sky tore open and monsters called Haina poured into the world, novelist Reito lost everything in an instant—including Mio, the woman he loved, who turned to ash before his eyes while still breathing. Grief should have broken him. Instead, it awakened something else. Where others saw only death and distortion, Reito's mind—trained by years of spinning stories, logic, and impossible worlds—saw the shape of the catastrophe itself. He named it. He understood it. And in doing so, h