Mimizuku to Yoru no Ou

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Mimizuku to Yoru no Ou (ミミズクと夜の王 Mimizuku and the King of Night) is a light novel by Kougyoku Izuki, and happens to be her first work. It won the Grand Prize in the 13th Dengeki Novel Contest. The book is a stand-alone work, but the author has also written a pseudo-sequel entitled The Poison-Breathing Princess and the Star Stone.

Story Synopsis

Mimizuku, a small girl with chains on her wrists and ankles and the numbers "332" branded onto her forehead, wanders into the Forest of Night seeking to be eaten by a monster. However, when the ruler of the monsters, the mysterious and beautiful "King of Night," refuses to eat her, she tries to formulate a way to convince him otherwise.

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• 19 March 2011
  • Mimizuku to Yoru no Ou project officially underway

Mimizuku to Yoru no Ou by Kougyoku Izuki

Mimizuku and the King of Night

• Prologue - The Forest of Night
• Chapter 1 - The Suicidal Mimizuku and the Human-Hating King of Night
• Chapter 2 - The Threshold to Blessings
• Chapter 3 - Purgatory Flowers
• Chapter 4 - Deliverance
• Chapter 5 - Gentle Lapse
• Chapter 6 - Seal of the King of Night
• Chapter 7 - Knight and Maiden
• Chapter 8 - Deliverance II
• Epilogue - Mimizuku and Fukurou
• Author's Word - What Hopefully Lies Ahead
• Commentary /Hiro Arikawa

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