📖 Chapter 13 – Sayuri's Forbidden Diary
Rain wove a thin veil over the mansion's windows.From his room, Rei kept glancing at the hallway that connected to Sayuri's study.
Something was calling him.
Ever since his seal had reacted to the scroll in the library, he had begun to notice subtle changes—not in the world, but within himself.When he walked, he felt echoes, as if the mansion's walls whispered its history.As if the place knew he had awakened.
That night, driven by an almost animal intuition, he rose in silence.
He moved through the carpeted halls. The night guard was either asleep or patrolling far away. In front of his mother's study, the air felt heavier.
He placed his palm against the door's surface.A faint blue glow, almost imperceptible, emanated from his seal.
The lock turned on its own.
He stepped inside.
The study was just as he remembered: elegant, minimalist, with a library behind a panel of smoked glass. A painting of a snow-capped mountain hung above the fireplace.But there was something else…
He walked to the desk, studying it closely.Under the lamp, at the right edge of the surface, a small crack stood out against the polished wood.
He pressed it.
With a dry click, a hidden compartment slid open. Inside lay a black leather book, untitled, with a golden seal identical to his own embossed on the cover.
He took it with trembling hands.A pulse—his chakra reacting—throbbed at the contact.
Sayuri's Diary – Personal and Classified. Only the heir may read without perishing.
Rei swallowed hard.
He opened the first page.
"If you are reading this, it is because the seal has begun to resonate with you. This was no accident. I placed it there… but I did not create it."
His palms were sweating. The text continued:
"Years ago, before you were born, I was part of an organization that does not appear in any book. People who studied the dimensions of the soul, living seals, and the boundaries between worlds. One experiment went wrong. Something… fractured. And you were born with that fragment inside you."
Rei closed the book for a moment. His heart pounded.
He read on.
"I cannot tell you everything yet. I must not. But this seal does more than protect you. It is a key. And it is also a prison. When you feel everything falling apart, seek the Inverted Door in your inner world. The true beginning lies beyond it."
"Forgive me, my son. I cast you into a world that still does not understand what you are."
The book trembled in his hands. A final note, handwritten in fresh ink, read:
"P.S.: Not all paths lead to power. Some lead to truth. And truth, Rei… can destroy you."
The next day, Sayuri returned from her business trip.She said nothing unusual during breakfast, but Rei no longer looked at her the same way.Not out of distrust… but because of the magnitude of what she hid.
He knew he could not confront her yet.He knew his mother had done what she could.
But now, with that book in his possession, something ignited in his chest:The certainty that his seal was only the first of many thresholds.
And that his mother… knew more than she would ever say.