The Twelve Kingdoms - Sea of Wind, Shore of the Labyrinth novel volume 3 was written by Fuyumi Ono with illustrations by Akihiro Yamada and features an all-new translation.

Taiki, the young black-haired Kirin of the kingdom of Tai is presented with an impossible task. A noble beast shouldered with the duty of selecting the next ruler, he was stolen away by a storm and sent to Japan, where he would be born to a human mother. It's now taken ten years to return Taiki to the land he should've been calling home, but can he truly take up the mantle of Kirin and choose the kingdom's next ruler?