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“I only wanted to love someone. That was all.” You are living inside a dream. You love someone, you are loved by someone, and in doing so, you live as a “human being.” But I am different. I have awakened. The moment I realized that I could no longer be human, I still found myself chasing the happiness of being one. Can you imagine the unbearable sorrow of wanting something you have already lost the right to possess? There is a loneliness I could never tell anyone about. But I want to tell it to you. A nameless boy, stranded on the boundary between dream and reality, carries with him “the illness called me” and continues to live. This is his confession— a story of a prayer that could not even become love. The confession of a nameless boy who was born an “outsider,” a “freak,” from the very beginning. Awakening of “The Neither Side” in Boundary Between Dreams and Reality. is a long-form independent work by MASAMUNE KITANO, blending manga, illustration, literary prose, philosophical monologue, and surreal imagery into a single narrative. CONTENTS I — ILLUSTRATION GALLERY Original illustrations drawn specially for this edition II — MAIN STORY THE ILLNESS CALLED ME THE ARCHENEMY THE ESCAPE THE SINNER OF THE WILDERNESS THE PLAY OF FICTION HURRY, WORLD!!! CONFESSION III — SUPPLEMENT / AFTERWORD For the Children Born and Dying Every Day Newly written for this edition IV — APPENDIX / SPECIAL FEATURE The Beast Who Dreams Awakening of “The Neither Side” in Boundary Between Dreams and Reality. Complete English Edition 241 pages Electronic Edition Written & Illustrated by MASAMUNE KITANO LIMINAL ALICE COMICS © 2026 Masamune Kitano. All Rights Reserved.