The enemy has learned to weaponize more than fear. Now he can weaponize truth.
When an abandoned receiver identifies Yui Sasaki’s lost capsule, Shiori Kanda helps guide the Provisional Witness Trust as it follows the signal into orbit. But every answer risks becoming a map for Fortunbras, the three-eyed Asheran assassin who has spent decades studying Japan, Musashi Genji, and the moment grief can turn Bizen into a successor.
As Bizen and Hanae fight to protect one another without turning love into control, Hachi struggles to exist beyond its former role, and Shiori confronts the unresolved fate of her missing friends.
Then Fortunbras strikes.
With the Imperial Orbital Archive falling toward Earth, the Jashashim must choose between survival through violation—or a far more dangerous freedom.
CROWNS AND SPIRITS, Tome IV delivers futuristic feudal Japan, orbital catastrophe, celestial warfare, romance, horror, dark humor, and a battle over consent, identity, inheritance, and power.