Overview
Within Nagasaki City's Shizundamori, living within the confines of a wrecked warship, lives what many consider to be no more than a legend, an entity built around cautionary tales. To every member of the Matsuyama household, the fabled swamp wardens are very real. The mother, Haru, holds a disdain for them, while the children, Kurisu and Olivia, share oblivious intrigue. With an encounter on his balcony one night, Kurisu, an eighteen year-old boy, has his intrigue lead him to this swamp warden, where he would unknowingly lay the groundwork for a sudden friendship that will whisk him and Olivia away on a fairy tale-esque odyssey across seas, meeting countless people of interest, and learning more about the swamp wardens than any oral tradition could ever teach.
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