Land of the Lustrous Vol. 10: Land of the Lustrous 10
- ISBN
- 9781632369154
- Publisher
- Kodansha
- English release
Land of the Lustrous returns Phos to the moon after the failed effort to make Kongo pray. The next task is regrouping, with the cost of that attempt already present rather than wiped away by a new plan. This is not the reason to buy the run for a decisive confrontation. Its place is the difficult interval after failure, when continuing the mission requires an answer that Phos does not yet have.
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Padparadscha has been covered in Cinnabar's poison, and Yellow Diamond has suffered a severe psychological blow. Meanwhile, Cairngorm and other gems are finding lunar life agreeable. That contrast gives the regrouping book its argument: a shared destination does not guarantee a shared urgency once people arrive. Phos needs another plan while others can experience the moon as somewhere worth living. The breather label describes this advertised interval of reassessment, not a promise of comfort or an absence of harm. The buying case is the friction between a stalled mission and companions who have reasons to settle into the place that mission has brought them.
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