Blank Fate: Where it all begins
In a society where magic and hereditary blood dictates worth, a nameless boy wakes up every morning to hunger, dirt, and silence — lost to everyone and unconsecrated by power. Until one burst of instinct reverses everything.
Having saved a virtuous girl from a pickpocket, the boy is offered something he's never known: warmth, a name, and a home. Named Tsuki, he enters the Waganaki mansion — a world of shining corridors, strict routines, and watchful smiles. But behind every smile is a concealed scar, and in the refuge of the mansion, danger grows in silence.
As Tsuki is trained by the cold and ruthless guardian Ryota, unspoken bonds are created — with Lia, the girl who named him after him, and Yumi, the feisty maid who slowly chips away at her defenses. He learns something new each day: how to fight, how to survive, how to trust.
But peace, too, is a fleeting illusion.
When disaster strikes under a festival's gleam of lantern light, Tsuki is awoken by a brutal reality. What appeared to be second chances is beginning to disintegrate into something far worse — whispers in the shadows, the presence of someone following him, and blood spilled in silence.
He believed he had no fate.
But someone has been observing him all along.
And fate?
It's never blank.
