Jan 11, 2026
To:Crys Meer
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I really wanted their relationship to sit in that in-between space: not full romance, but not neutral either. Trauma, shared fear, shared emotions, bodies and souls tied together… it can look like love, or dependence, or something fragile in between. And their relationship will keep evolving. 😉
About the digital yokai and Hikari:
You’re not wrong to feel that it’s strange and hard to grasp at first. That’s on purpose. In the story, it’s something rare, unclear, and poorly understood even by the characters themselves.
I planted some early hints in Chapters 3 and 6, when Rei talks about the “Transcended,” and later when Kageyama is confronted about his experiments. Those lines were rewritten to quietly introduce this idea: people who change their nature and disappear into something “other.”
I also felt it was more fitting, and more beautiful, to have her transcend into a digital yokai to explain her “powers,” rather than just making her a random digital entity possessing something. We’ll learn more about this in the coming chapters.
Hikari was just a normal human, but more perceptive than most. She sensed that Rei wasn’t human, trusted that intuition, and followed it.
And honestly, if you can’t walk through Tokyo anymore without thinking of these characters and this story… that’s probably the best compliment I could ever get. 💛
