DESIRING DREAM

Eighteen months ago, a brilliant electronics engineer's life shattered into a chaotic spiral of gambling debts, ruin, and alcoholism. His family accepted it as a tragic collapse. They were wrong. Seventeen-year-old art student Yokubo Hikari lived in the quiet shadow of that wreckage—until a desperate, bloodied stranger thrust a strange ceramic cat figure into his hands on a dark Japanese street. Inside lay an elegant, pristine notebook bound in brown leather. Stamped across the cover in gold foil was a single word: DESIRE. The rules are simple. Write a name. Visualize a face. Watch their deepest ambitions manifest. But absolute power is never free. The notebook is a cosmic parasite. It doesn't create dreams—it steals them from the target and forces them onto the writer, extracting a terrifying price in blood and tragedy from those left behind. Trapped in a dangerous alliance with a calculating supernatural entity, Yokubo must transform from a passive observer into a cold, hyper-analytical strategist. Because his best friend is watching his every move. The corporate empire that ruined his father is hunting the book. And in this game of shadows, a single psychological misstep means absolute ruin. A slow-burn, high-stakes Seinen psychological thriller featuring a calculating protagonist, tactical mind games, and urban fantasy lore.