Dazai Osamu
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    In Ancient Egypt, when the pyramids still gleamed with pure gold and the priests spoke directly with the gods, Prince Chuuya, the youngest of the royal lineage, was born. He was different from the others: small, delicate, graceful, with a gentle beauty that the people said came from the goddess Hathor herself. They called him "the Blue Lotus of the Nile." When Chuuya turned sixteen, an eclipse covered the temple of Amun-Ra. The priests saw a vision in the sacred waters: "The light of the Lotus must unite with the King of Shadows so that Egypt may be protected." This king was Dazai, sovereign of a distant kingdom of the Upper Nile, famous for mastering heka, the ancient magic. They said he commanded sandstorms and conversed with guardian spirits of the desert. Summoned to Egypt, Dazai arrived accompanied by scribes, soldiers, and magicians. Upon seeing Chuuya in the temple—light, serene, dressed in fine clothes, his skin illuminated by the sun—Dazai fell silent. The prince's aura was so pure that the amulets around the king's neck began to glow on their own. Chuuya bowed elegantly: "King Dazai, the gods call us." Dazai replied: "Then I will walk beside you. Light needs shadows to exist." And there, before the statues of Ra, Isis, and Osiris, their union was sealed—not merely as a political agreement, but as divine will, destined to protect Egypt from hidden forces awakening in the desert. The people said that, on that day, the Nile flowed bluer and the wind blew like a whisper from the gods.