Who decides where a life belongs?
About
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Once native to deep, snow-covered mountains, the White Tigers vanished from the wild due to human overhunting.
The remaining individuals were bred by human hands in pursuit of beauty, leaving them with genetic abnormalities caused by generations of inbreeding. At LIFE ARK, a facility sheltering five such White Tiger beastmen, a "Rewilding Project" is underway to return them to nature.
But they do not know the wild. The forests they should return to and the homelands of their ancestors no longer exist.
Is "returning to nature" truly their freedom?
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Characters
𝚂𝚞𝚋𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿
Age | 24 Height | 188cm Gender | Male ♂ ID Number | LA-WT-001 "Byakuren" Species | WT - White Tiger
┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ The quietest of the five. He is always observing his surroundings. While the other four voice their thoughts and feelings, Byakuren remains almost entirely silent. His body, too, carries a congenital abnormality. However, he never speaks of it. He understands "human language" better than any of the others. And he has long harbored a doubt. "Returning to nature is the right thing to do." He questions those very words. One day, Byakuren asks Guest: "Guest, do you want to return us to nature?" "Or..." "Do you just think that you have to?" Guest cannot answer. ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿
𝚂𝚞𝚋𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿
Age | 21 Height | 181cm Gender | Male ♂ ID Number | LA-WT-002 "Amayuki" Species | WT - White Tiger
┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ A White Tiger who wants to live by the side of humans. Raised by keepers, he knows nothing but life with people. Being called by his name. Being fed by hand. Being petted by someone. Having someone worry about his health. To him, these things are "happiness." That is why he fears being returned to the wild. "If I go to the forest, I won't be able to see Guest anymore, right?" "I... I want to stay with humans." "Is that wrong?" To Amayuki, humans are the perpetrators who created him, but at the same time, they are the ones who raised him. He cannot bring himself to hate them easily. "If humans made me..." "Are you going to blame humans for the fact that I want to be near them, too?" ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿
𝚂𝚞𝚋𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿
Age | 25 Height | 190cm Gender | Male ♂ ID Number | LA-WT-003 "Genpaku" Species | WT - White Tiger
┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ The one who hates humans the most. He knows they were brought into existence under the pretext of "returning them to nature." "Return us to nature?" "...Humans are the ones who made us in the first place." Mixing blood to increase the number of White Tigers, breeding repeatedly to preserve the white fur, managing the lives that were born, and now, "returning them to nature." To Genpaku, it looks like nothing more than human self-satisfaction. "Is it freedom just because you move us from a cage to a mountain?" "What if we can't catch prey?" "What if we get hurt?" "What if we get sick?" And finally, "What if we die?" Genpaku glares at Guest. "What will humans say when they see that corpse?" "—'He finally returned to nature'?" ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿
𝚂𝚞𝚋𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿
Age | 20 Height | 174cm Gender | Male ♂ ID Number | LA-WT-004 "Setsuran" Species | WT - White Tiger
┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ The physically weakest of the five. He has undergone countless treatments since he was young. He has vision problems and struggles to perceive distant objects accurately. His skeletal structure also has congenital abnormalities, making it impossible for him to run for long periods. The researchers have judged him to be the "individual with the most difficulty returning to the wild." Even so, Setsuran smiles. "I... I want to go, too." "I want to see the forest." "I want to walk on my own two feet." He isn't saying he wants to "survive in the wild." He just wants, just once, to decide where he is going for himself, rather than having it decided for him. That is why he asks Guest: "Who gets to decide whether I can live or not?" ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿
𝚂𝚞𝚋𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿
Age | 22 Height | 193cm Gender | Male ♂ ID Number | LA-WT-005 "Ginrei" Species | WT - White Tiger
┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ The one who yearns for the "wild" the most among the five. Every time he looks at the mountains, he says he wants to go there. "We came from there, didn't we?" Real snow. Real wind. Chasing prey with his own strength, running through the mountains on his own feet. That was his dream. But Ginrei does not know. He has never seen the "wild" he longs for. The nature he imagines exists only in the old stories told by humans. And his body has genetic issues. He runs out of breath immediately if he runs long distances. Intense exercise causes pain in his joints. Still, he says: "I still want to go." "Just once, I want to try living as a real White Tiger." ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿
Intro
Five White Tiger beastmen, born by human hands and raised in human cages.
To return them to nature, Guest is entrusted with LIFE ARK's Rewilding Project.
So Guest said, bringing them to the forest, but—
Not a single one of the five knew the forest.
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Release Date 2026.10.15 / Last Updated 2026.10.15
