Shinrabansho: Myriad Souls

Susumu survived losing his face… his entire identity.

She is forced to form a whole new one in the wake of her gender changing. More than that, she finds herself inhabiting the body of her dead first love. Reiko bequeathed all that she was to Susumu through yōkai spiritual fusion.

That gave the term “Cinderella Deadline” a completely new and ironic meaning.

As Akuchi demonstrated, spiritual fusion, or rather the merging of memories, tends to cause disorientation. Now that Susumu has a new female body, how will Rui react? While Ume isn’t exclusively yuri, how will the change in Susumu affect her? Every time Susumu blushes, she gives off pheromones that only Ume seems to notice.

How will Natalia react to the changes in Susumu? And then there’s Akuchi. Unpredictable. Possessive. How will she behave when faced with such a drastic change in the one who unintentionally marked her as hers?

Time doesn’t freeze just because Susumu’s entire identity changed. It doesn’t stop because her gender changed. A new deadline looms as she learns that Spiritual Detectives are far more common than she assumed… and that they’re normally licensed and officially authorized for their work by Tokyo’s police force and a certain mysterious council that operate in a completely different world.

They have only a week before the annual exams take place on Seven-Five-Three. If Susumu isn’t ready, SSDS: Shinohara Spiritual Detective Services’ future is at risk.

While Susumu has merged with Reiko, she hasn’t gained any miraculous martial abilities. At least, not directly. She still has no idea how to use her jade bracelet. The cat’s paw she used to fight Mitsuhiko is gone forever. Her Noh-Face powers have disappeared as well.

How is she expected to function with spiritual power she can’t even use?

But did that monster inside her actually disappear?

And if it didn’t… how will that affect her life?

And what happened to Reiko when they fused?

If you’re looking for urban fantasy, yokai, horror, found-family, chaos, harem, sentai, absurdity, slapstick, comedy, tragedy, romance, identity, fanservice, gender bending and unhinged supernatural shenanigans — this story is for you.

But, let’s be real and add some more tags! Book two is going to shift into a different gear. These things all still exist but there’s more...

Shoujo, josei... non-explicit sex. I do my best not to cross the line into it being read as smut. If it happens, it will only happen for story-emotional reasons. That’s how I write. =^.^=

This next book is completely new, as refined as I can make it. Will there be mistakes? Possibly, but I do my best!