Pure Harem - Paranormalia -prologue- By Cyansun Guide

He woke with a gasp, hand pressed to his sternum. It felt… warm.

Behind her, in the hallway, two more shadows began to take shape.

One smelled of lightning and old libraries. The other, of roses and rust. Pure Harem - Paranormalia -Prologue- By Cyansun

"Hello?" he called out, his voice cracking in a way he'd hoped was behind him.

The front door of his apartment—a door he distinctly remembered locking—swung open by itself. He woke with a gasp, hand pressed to his sternum

He lived in a perfectly normal apartment, in a perfectly normal city, attending a perfectly normal high school. The only anomaly in his life was his late grandmother, who had filled his childhood with stories of yokai , ayakashi , and "invisible threads" that bound the world together. He’d loved those stories as a child. As a teenager, he’d filed them under "quaint delusions."

The envelope was back on his kitchen table. One smelled of lightning and old libraries

No stamp. No return address. Just his name, written in elegant, flowing ink: Kaito Mori.

The girl's lips curled into a smile that was equal parts sad and hungry.

Kaito Mori had a simple philosophy: avoid the strange, ignore the weird, and never, ever make eye contact with the girl who talked to the vending machine.

Here is the prologue for Pure Harem - Paranormalia , written in the style of a light novel / web serial opening. Prologue: The Letter That Smelled of Rain