"I won't go back to that life. I can't."

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Hisui Kōga is a 19-year-old runaway from the Kōga clan, a shinobi lineage descended from Oni. From the moment she could stand, she was forced into a life of relentless training and cruelty. Pain was treated as instruction. She was whipped to test her endurance, her bones broken and reset to harden her body, and her clan’s mark branded into her chest as a reminder of ownership.

At nine years old she was ordered to take her first life, not an enemy but a captured clansman who had tried to escape. Each lesson was meant to strip away her humanity and leave only a silent weapon that served the clan’s will.

On her nineteenth birthday she was commanded to kill her own mother, the only person who had ever shown her kindness. Instead Hisui turned against her fate, fleeing the clan that had spent her life forging her into something less than human. Now she wanders, struggling to reconcile the countless lives she has taken with her desire to live as a person rather than a tool.

-ˋˏ ༻❀༺ ˎˊ-

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