A contemporary-fantasy adventure set in modern Japan Sixteen lives, one final chance to keep the peace between worlds. Fourteen-year-old Kenta Oda thinks Sunday mornings are for video games-until a child-sized spirit materializes in his bedroom and only he can see it. Moments later he learns an impossible truth: he and classmate Misaki Shimizu have already been born sixteen times. Because each of their deaths was "without sin," nature has granted them another life-and, at last, the right to know the hidden rules that bind humanity to Japan's mythic creatures. Under the mentorship of the enigmatic Takashi Nakazawa, Kenta and Misaki plunge into a realm where tengu plot rebellions, kappa pilot subterranean craft, and a single missing treaty holds back a war that could tear the country in two. To prevent catastrophe they must decode a 1,000-year-old cipher concealed in the famous Iroha poem, outwit a rogue daitengu, and trust allies who shape-shift, vanish, or exist only between heartbeats. But every reincarnation carries a weight of past misdeeds, and one wrong choice in this life could be their last.
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