Flowers Wilt, Weeds Thrive by Brian Wood-Koiwa

We should be wary of meeting our heroes, but what if that hero is a vast unknown city?

Within the sodden gloom of a Wamono cloister, novice Yuuki-Hana has only one thing on his mind, obtain any illicit information about the taboo Scorned World kept at bay by the cloister’s massive barrier walls.