Even in silence, the past screams.
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Sakamoto's Age: 6.5
Location: Velduin outskirts
Status: Fractured but focused
Weather: Light snow. Still. Wrong.
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Opening Line:
They say the dead don't speak.
But when your curse is made from guilt,
every silence becomes a grave with a voice.
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The Soul Message
It came just before dawn.
A glow above the frost.
A thin thread of mana — blue, silver, almost… warm.
Sakamoto touched it, and the thread became a voice:
> "If you're hearing this, I'm already gone."
It was Aelira.
> "I asked the old priestess to bind this spell the day I knew I wouldn't last."
She laughed, softly.
> "I hope you grew taller.
I hope you became stronger.
But more than that… I hope you still feel things."
Then her voice cracked.
> "You don't have to forgive yourself.
Just don't forget me."
And the thread vanished.
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Ravian's Soulbrand Spell
That same morning, Ravian unsealed a scroll he'd been hiding for a year.
He bit his palm. Dripped blood over it.
The scroll ignited with red runes.
> "What's that?" Sakamoto asked.
> "Insurance."
> "For me?"
> "No. For the world if you lose control."
> "And you'd use it?"
Ravian didn't answer.
But his silence said everything.
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Niris's Class Revealed
Sakamoto unsheathed her again.
The fracture was spreading.
> "Tell me who you are," he said.
She appeared — not in blade form, but spirit form. Half-solid, half-shadow.
> "Before I was a sword… I was a girl cursed by time."
> "What class?"
> "Chrono-Soulbound. Bound to the one soul that broke me the most."
> "Me?"
> "You… as Aevum."
> "What did I do?"
She shook her head.
> "You'll remember. That's the real curse."
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Eira's Vision
In a dream, Eira sees a castle made of light — burning.
Inside it stands Sakamoto.
He doesn't speak.
He just walks toward her…
And disappears.
She wakes with a tear sliding down her cheek.
> "I've never met you," she says aloud.
"So why does it feel like… you were my first goodbye?"
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Veyrion Strikes
A town two days west of Velduin goes silent.
No smoke. No screams.
Just silence.
When scouts arrive, they find no bodies.
Only a symbol etched into the stone in blood:
> "One by one, the fires will be extinguished."