Shu Takashi No MIYAKO

[Machine Translation] In the mid-Heian period, as political corruption ran rampant and demons ran amok in the mountains surrounding the dilapidated capital, Shoji the younger sister of the Minister of the Right chance upon Shuten-doji, the leader of the demons. Shoji gradually comes to trust the affable Shuten Doji, but within the imperial court, the Emperor who had attributed all calamities, from famine and plague to the suspicious death of a noble princess, to the ogres had already ordered Shuten Doji s extermination. Are the beings that threaten humanity truly ogres? Is there no other path but to oppose those of different forms? Winner of the 2026 Japan Fantasy Novel Award." A narrative woven from the intertwining lives of ogres and humans a story we must ask ourselves now, when the line between good and evil is blurring.

政治腐敗が進み、荒れた都を取り巻く山々に鬼たちが跋扈していた平安中期。右大臣の妹・尚侍は、鬼の首領・朱天童子と偶然出会う。人懐っこい朱天童子に尚侍は心を許すようになるが、宮中では、飢饉や疫病、果ては公卿の姫君の不審死まで、禍をすべて鬼のせいと断じた帝が朱天童子の討伐を命じていた―。人を脅かすものの正体は本当に鬼なのか。異形の者とは対立するしか道はないのか。「日本ファンタジーノベル大賞2026」受賞作。善悪の境目がゆらぐ今こそ問いたい、鬼と人とが織りなす絵巻。