As the Light Festival draws near, the N?ssyrians craft paper lanterns, awaiting the most important holiday of the year.
The Lyli?g Fighting House, too, prepares for celebration—by laying fresh sand onto the arena and setting up a match against their top pit fighter, the unrivalled Yüuzuki ?ren.
His last match. One he can’t win.
With the odds more than stacked against him, the gorgeous Barbarian is as good as dead. Unless his lover, healer ?aiatto ?kana, proves himself every bit as determined as he is clever and finds a way to protect the man he’d stop at nothing to save.