Minato of the Red Sword
Once hailed as the Red Sword of the Empire, General Minato Tempest led the elite Sakura Battalion into what became a massacre—an ambitious campaign turned death march under the orders of a naive new emperor. Branded a failure and stripped of rank, Minato vanished into the wilderness, haunted by dreams of fallen brothers and the bloodstained sword he still carries.
For eleven years, he has wandered the fractured world, a ghost in armor, offering his blade to villagers in need while trying to outrun guilt that clings like ash. But when a remote mountain village is attacked by raiders, the old instincts awaken. With fire in his heart and steel in hand, Minato rises again—this time not for glory or orders, but for something simpler: survival, justice, and the faint hope of redemption.
As the ghosts of his past begin to whisper truths he has long buried, a new legend begins to stir in the ashes—the return of the Red Sword.