They once called them monsters.

  Wielders of shadows — cursed souls who bent the darkness itself to their will — were feared, hunted, and erased from the pages of history.

  It did not matter if they were innocent.

  It did not matter if they bled or begged or prayed.

  In the eyes of the world, one truth remained:

  Where shadows walk, ruin follows.

  And so the purge began.

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  Families shattered.

  Cities fell silent.

  Children, barely old enough to speak, were burned under banners of holy light.

  For a time, the world believed it had rid itself of the shadow bearers.

  For a time, the world slept peacefully, ignorant in its cruelty.

  But history has a habit of repeating itself.

  And darkness... true darkness... never dies so easily.

  Somewhere, hidden beyond the mountains, beyond the reach of kings and priests, a small light survived.

  A girl, born beneath a cursed star.

  A girl, marked by the shadows the world so feared.

  She should have died.

  She should have vanished like the others.

  But fate — or perhaps something far older — chose differently.

  Her name is Yukino.

  And when she awakens, the world that once hunted her will tremble.

  Because the last shadow bearer has not been broken.

  She has been waiting.