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2026-08-23
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2026-08-28
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Providence

Summary:

Yokohama, 1913.

Demon Slayer Shinazugawa Genya expects a routine assignment. Instead, he finds a city unraveling under an unseen plague, an eccentric German family torn apart from within, and Clara—a woman desperately shielding her sister from a torment born across the sea.

​As an old-world debt binds their lives to the same encroaching nightmare, what begins as chance starts to look like providence. But as the creature closes in, defying fate means confronting a curse decades in the making.

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Story Note: Providence has epistolary elements, meaning much of the horror is told through diaries, personal letters, official documents, and other documents, alongside narrative prose.

Content Warning: Body horror, blood depletion, historical illness/decay, and psychological distress.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: Prologue: A Promise Made

Summary:

A prayer for a friend, and something overhears.

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PROLOGUE

A Promise Made

A Munich countryside estate, 1892.

​The drafty nursery was cold and isolated. An infant with a tuft of wild, curly brown hair slept in a basket.

​Beside her, a five-year-old girl knelt on the floorboards, her hands pressed together in prayer, just as she was taught by the Father.

​“Please,” she whispered. “Send me a companion. A friend, so I won't be lonely anymore.”

​❖ ❖ ❖

​Hundreds of miles away, in the deep shadows of a jagged mountain range, something ancient turned its head to the wind.

​In the nursery, the candle snuffed out.