The Faded Masquerade

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Chapter One "Will you eat, or will you starve?" The question hung in the air of the Kyoto courtyard, heavy as the wet plaster of the walls, and Haruto Yoshida did not answer immediately because the sound of his own stomach was louder than the wind, a hollow, grinding noise that seemed to echo off the stone lanterns. He was thirty-five years old, a scholar of modest reputation whose primary...

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