Ten Minutes Awake
In a world where monstrous gates tear through cities and hunters rise to fight them, Azari lives a strangely peaceful life. Born into wealth and gifted with an unusual ability that allows him to shift between two soul states. Male and female. He never sought battle, fame, or danger. All he wanted was a quiet life with the girl who had always been by his side Ira, his childhood friend.
But everything changes when a monster attack leaves Ira fatally injured. With no healer in sight and no miracle to save her, Azari awakens the true nature of his power in desperation. His female soul state is capable of housing another soul. Just once. Faced with losing Ira forever, he preserves her soul within himself, binding their existence together.
Now, Ira can only awaken for ten minutes a day, while Azari bears the physical and emotional cost of keeping her alive. Trapped in an unknown dungeon after a gate malfunction, he survives alone, scavenging, hunting, and learning to live in a world that no longer feels real. Every day, he must choose whether to wake her and endure unbearable pain or let her remain asleep in silence.
As Azari searches for a way to give Ira her own body again, he ventures deeper into dangerous dungeons, uncovers secrets about souls and mana, and meets beings that challenge what it means to be human. But every step forward forces him to confront grief, identity, and the terrifying truth that some things may never return to how they were.
In a world without miracles, love becomes both his greatest strength and his most painful curse.
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