Its about Arsenio, a sweet boy from a strict religious country unfortunately capturing the heart of a fire spirit and was deemed evil or possessed. And in his country that means death, even his own bff Sauro, knight/soldier for the country follows in the religions belief and tried to kill him, to 'liberate' his friends soul.
Now on the run, fleeing for his life, he struggles with hardships about his own identiy as human or beast. he meets with herbal witch Betty and her master Vivian. With them, he was accepted as person and not something evil and works as a servant for them.
The overall driving point for the plot is healing Vivian for a curse that was placed on her, leaving her in a sleeping beauty type sleep. Betty and Arsenio must collect the ingredients that Vivian listed for the cure before her unconscious.
In this adventure they meet a whole bunch people, monster, and friend New and old.
We see the silly happenings of day to day life with them, Arsenio get in a love triangle, Betty is cute and adorable.
There's themes of gender identity and queer relationships in this shounen adventure fantasy.
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Sorry this is so all over the place I'm not the best with words and retelling, I have reread the story for the beginning in a long while haha.
But this is a great story (biased) but it can be a bit confusing at times, idk about real world representation accuracy. There's a lot I didn't mention because memory bad and I wanted to limit spoilers.
Give it a read if you have time! Hope this was somewhat helpful haha
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Shld I read this?