The Day Fate Turned Cruel

Two years later, the news came—his father had fallen, not to monsters, but to them.

Kaito cried with his mother, but when she fainted from grief, the village’s elder grandmother carried her.

“My son and grandson were both taken by them,” she said. “But you, girl, must live. You have Kaito. Make him strong.”

Yet sorrow does not fade easily. Loneliness consumed his mother, and before long, she too was gone.

Kaito, still a child, wept beside her still body.

“Mom… please… don’t leave me too…”

But the stars gave no answer. That night, he vowed beneath the empty sky:

“I’ll fight them. Even if it kills me.”