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The Empath

Kaguragi Aki by

Kitagawa Mio, a psychological counselor who feels every sound through her skin, lives as a Highly Sensitive Person. A single session with a patient sets the boundary dissolving — between dream and reality, between others' memories and her own: a six-chapter psychological horror of perception and the unconscious.

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  1. Chapter 1 The Memory of Sound A counselor who feels every sound through her skin meets a patient who shouldn't exist — and when he touches her wrist, the boundary between his dream and her waking life begins to dissolve. 5 min read
  2. Chapter 2 Invading Memories The patient's file is blank, yet Mio remembers his voice. When a new patient arrives breathing in the same broken rhythm, she can no longer tell whose dream she is walking through. 5 min read
  3. Chapter 3 Multiple Realities A telephone rings and cuts through Mio's sleep. 6 min read
  4. Chapter 4 Reality Rewritten The sound of liquid, dripping. 9 min read
  5. Chapter 5 The Collective Unconscious Multiple voices sound simultaneously. 7 min read
  6. Chapter 6 A New Reality A telephone ring wakes you. 7 min read