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The Tower at Hanamizu City
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Nov 25, 2025
A3,101words
Synopsis

On a cold December night, exhausted salaryman Kisaragi Ren takes a shortcut home… and walks straight into a deadly confrontation he was never meant to see. Moments later, while dying, he looks up and notices a colossal white tower, smooth as bone, rising into the clouds.

Note from author

[Urban Fantasy]

This story is my late-ish submission to the 2025 Twilight Frontier Contest.

I wanted to try something a little different. Something that blends the familiar with the strange. A Japan set-spaghetti-western-inspired-urban fantasy, where magic is written in code, guns fire glyph-spells instead of bullets, and parallel dimensions bleed into 2012 Japan. Expect magical guns, frontier-style standoffs, creeping cosmic mysteries, and the occasional kaiju-scale disaster rumbling in from the other side of reality.

I’m not sure how my update schedule will look—or how well this project will do—but I wanted to take a swing at it anyway.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read. It genuinely means the world.
Hope you enjoy the climb.

[Urban Fantasy]

This story is my late-ish submission to the 2025 Twilight Frontier Contest.

I wanted to try something a little different. Something that blends the familiar with the strange. A Japan set-spaghetti-western-inspired-urban fantasy, where magic is w...

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