Silk Vows at the Night Parade

Dream-reader Ren Ishida survives by recording every sensation his altered memory might erase. When court musician Aoi Kurose pulls him into a living Night Parade scroll, he discovers she is the jorogumo queen secretly containing the empire’s lies. But the missing hour between them hides an older betrayal, and saving the waking capital may cost the last true memories that prove they ever loved each other.

A dream-reader follows a jorogumo queen into a living scroll, unaware his missing hour hides the betrayal that once sentenced her to death.