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Finished Mori no Majuu ni Hanataba wo by Kogi Kimito. It's a one-off fairy tale about a sickly boy who is charged with the task of fetching a blue rose from the Forbidden Forest to solidify his claim as heir to a great house. Behind the scenes it's more of a plan to get rid of the incompetent elder son to make way for his younger step-brother, so once inside the forest filled with fearsome magical beasts, the boy's guard abandons him to die. Luckily the first monster he runs into is a flesh-eating flower nymph.

In the end it's a fairly simple boy-meets-girl from different worlds story. The writing is adequate but dull, and the plot doesn't have any real surprises to offer. Well, maybe the double leg transplant. It's all just too tepid to bother.