Ashes of the Black Blade
Ashes of the Black Blade
Born under a cursed moon, Rai Tsuki was never given a chance at peace. Branded an "Ash spawn" by the very village he called home, Rai grew up beneath whispers, glares, and silence. But at the age of seven, silence turned to screams. When the villagers could no longer contain their hatred, they turned on the one person Rai loved most — his mother, Aria Tsuki — and made him watch as they tore her apart, piece by piece, across seven days of torment.
They broke her body, but she never stopped smiling for him.
They broke his heart, and with it, awakened something ancient.
From the ashes of that horror, Rai Tsuki is reborn — not as a boy, but as a vessel of wrath. Marked by tragedy and driven by vengeance, Rai begins a journey across a god-forsaken world, haunted by the screams of the innocent and hunted by powers that fear what he might become.
But Rai does not seek mercy.
He seeks understanding — through pain, through fire, through blood.
He will make the gods kneel. He will make the world remember.
This is not a story of a hero.
This is the tale of a weapon — forged in grief, sharpened by betrayal, and set loose upon a world that made him watch love die.