A radical redesign: a new cover concept (in line with teen novel standards), 2 volumes with 480 pages each, and a richer and more sustained plot.

Asuka has always dreamed of becoming a mangaka—a manga artist. So, when young girls are found drained of blood in the port of Osaka, she feels she has a story worth telling. Her encounter with Cloud encourages her to investigate the "Vampire of Osaka." But Asuka awakens dark secrets... Even more troubling, the events she draws with her Teiko, a pen made from a strange artifact, seem to affect her own life... Are her drawings inspired by dark reality, or is reality growing darker because of her drawings?