Wasteland
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'Shouyou hadn't been born into the Wasteland. He should have hated it, been terrified of it. But instead, Kageyama had watched him walk through it with something a little bit like wonder. Maybe he was just too stupid to know any better. Or maybe what he'd left behind was just that much worse.
Despite knowing that the Wasteland took far more than it gave, Kageyama wanted him to have something a little bit like freedom.'
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When Shouyou loses the only life he's ever known under mysterious and bloody circumstances, it's Kageyama who finds him in the aftermath, leaving Shouyou with no choice but to rely on the lone, brooding wanderer for survival. But as they journey through the unforgiving landscape, he starts to discover other sides to Kageyama—one of which just might be that he is a good man.
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- Part 1 of Wasteland
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' "I was just… wondering… what those things are. The big white things." Shouyou leaned back and pointed up at the sky. "Those."
Kageyama looked up. "The… clouds? How do you not know what clouds are?"
"How am I supposed to know what they are?" Shouyou asked. "I've never seen them before!" '
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Watching the sky.
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- Part 2 of Wasteland
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' "I like looking at you."
Kageyama turned back to him. Shouyou was staring. He did this, often, but there was stag blood flecked all over his face, and his eyes seemed to open wider and shine brighter, intense to the point of burning.
"You said it wasn't anything to be ashamed of," Shouyou continued. His little red tongue snaked out past his lips, wetting them, and Kageyama felt the sudden need to sit down.'
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Shouyou's slowly surfacing past appears to hide something darker than just loneliness. As he begins to adjust to life on the outside, under the harsh conditions of the Wasteland, Kageyama starts to learn there's a difference between keeping someone alive, and showing them how to live.
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- Part 3 of Wasteland
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'There they were. Kageyama had never noticed them before—they must be bolder on Shouyou's limbs, but now that he knew what he was looking for, he saw them. There was the faintest smattering of freckles all across the bridge of Shouyou's nose and cheeks, and even on his forehead. They were whisper light.
Shouyou blinked his huge, clear amber eyes up at him. "Are you lying about them not being bad?" '
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An overabundance of sun leads to a new discovery now that Shouyou has left the Vault.
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- Part 4 of Wasteland
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'There were so many things Shouyou didn't know: why he'd had to run. Why the Overseer wanted to kill him. What he'd done to cause the deaths of so many.
But one thing he did know for certain.
He would leave the Vault behind, and he would never go back. Because finally, he had entered the Wasteland.'
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After confronting Shouyou's past, Kageyama now must reckon with the present—Shouyou is gone, and the danger of the Vault still casts a long shadow over him, drawing them both into its depths. Kageyama will stop at nothing to find Shouyou, fight for him, to save him.
Fortunately, he won't have to fight alone.
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- Part 5 of Wasteland