City of Defilement

In Haimori Ward, a forgotten corner of Tokyo where the solitary death rate climbs higher every year, Kamori Kai has spent three weeks in a rotting apartment, waiting for a life he no longer wants. Then the ceiling stain splits open, and a golden-haired girl in scorched royal dress crashes onto his garbage-strewn tatami—a girl with mismatched eyes, a voice that permits no refusal, and a body that flickers in and out of existence. "Clean this up, servant." Merisa Ars Samal Framme commands, and K