The City Where Gray Rain Falls
nicotineSynopsis
At the edge of a city ringed by layers of walls, District 28.
‘Isaac’ barely manages to infiltrate the city, District 28 of all places, through the sewers. Unfortunately, he encounters the new Chief of Security.
Chief of Security ‘Samuel.’ The most dangerous being in the city, the party’s watchdog, a slaughterer.
‘…An angel?’
But the moment Isaac first sees him in his snow-white uniform, he mistakes him for an angel out of old tales.
Of course, it was a brief delusion. For Chief of Security Samuel was unmistakably a white devil clad in human skin, the warden of hell itself.
“Shall I let you live?”
He asks. Though he has no intention of letting him live.
“…Yesss…”
Even so, Isaac had to survive somehow.
“Good boy.”
To find the friend somewhere in this city. And to apologize to that kid.
“Now then, from this moment on, do your very best to cry. So that I might feel inclined to let you live.”
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Background/Genre: Western-style, period piece
Work Keywords: love-hate, confinement, salvation, serious tone, angsty/heavy, strong top, unhinged top, cold-blooded top, indifferent top, beautiful top, wounded top, overpowering top, obsessive top, bottom who’s bent over time, timid bottom, innocent bottom, ordinary bottom, Western-style, period piece
Top: Samuel. The youngest Chief of Public Security and the Party’s hound who mercilessly eliminates the city’s enemies. Beneath his beautiful looks and dazzling white uniform, he carries the wounds of a terrible past. He thought he knew everything about the rebels, but before him appears Isaac—a man whose true nature he cannot pin down. A vague hunch soon becomes certainty, and curiosity turns into obsession and love. Even if he has to annihilate everyone around him, as long as he can keep Isaac caged, wouldn’t that be fine?
Bottom: Isaac. An orphan raised in the rebel camp as a useless errand boy. He risks danger and comes to the city solely to find his friend, but the one he actually meets is the cruel Chief of Public Security, Samuel. Captured by him, Isaac endures all kinds of suffering, yet strangely, the needle of his heart keeps tilting toward love. He just wants to forget everything and be bound. However, the countless truths surrounding him refuse to leave Isaac alone—so that he loves him, yet has no choice but to hate him.
Read this when: You want a story that stirs your mind. When you’re curious about how curiosity becomes love, and love becomes love-hate. When you want to see the moment when an obsessive top lets go of his obsession.
Resonant lines: “Isaac. Even if this city becomes a wasteland littered with countless severed heads, our birdcage will be safe. Won’t it?”
