At the age of eleven, Kotoko Iwanaga was kidnapped by youkai so that they could ask her to become their Goddess of Wisdom. She happily accepts the request, at the cost of her right eye and left leg, and acts as the mediator between the human and spirit worlds. Now at seventeen, in the midst… Read More First Impression: In/Spectre The post First Impression: In/Spectre appeared first on Beneath the Tangles.
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