Old Name and New Name

Shun just wants to finish his desk work and go home, but old rivals, young fans, and one sharp compliance officer keep spotting the famous adventurer he buried. Every day he hides behind a new name, every night the inugami in his shadow acts like he still belongs to an old family line that no longer exists. Then the past-life pieces start coming back in flashes, tied to objects he keeps touching and places he cannot explain. He knows how to survive a battlefield, yet a quiet office, a sealed badge, and a look from Mio unsettle him faster than a blade. The hardest part is not the retirement. It is the way people keep seeing the person he used to be, while he is still trying to learn who that ...