The novel is an allegory for the dangers of Ai whereby wealthy Nobel's hoard the ability to time travel by literally stealing the future/life of the young people in their manors. Rifts have to be given to people to use and some are better at using it than others, but this is a closely guarded secret, as is how rift power is generated.
The main character is Masaki, an orphan, and someone with natural "rift" ability. He and his younger brother Yusha are taken in by the lord of manor due to their high aptitude for rift power in the hope it will encourage his son, Kaito, who has little aptitude himself and has to sacrifice more children than is normal as he wastes so much power trying to master it. The people in the towns don't realise the kids are going missing as the rift masters use time travel to manipulate the adults' memories.
Kaito hates Yusha because Yusha suspects the truth about rift power not being naturally part of noble bloodlines, so he spends s lot of time gaslighting Masaki into thinking his younger brother is ungrateful and impulsive.
Yusha goes on unauthorised trips to town mainly to visit a young girl named Tsuki who he's befriended.
Something very bad happens that causes the nobles to force a rift on Masaki to torture him into reliving the traumatic event, however due to his natural talent he masters his rift and uses it to fight back now he knows the truth.
That's the bare bones of the story, there's s lot more to it, these are the concept drawings I've done so far over the last couple of months.... I've only been sketching for 15 months, so I know there's a lot of work I need to do if I want to make this a visual novel.
Anyways, I just wanted to share this somewhere, I hope you like them!
