Three years after the world nearly ended, Mildern Yazukaze is nineteen, serving on the Council of Eight, and trying to build a life instead of outrunning it. The child he found in the forest is eleven now, attending the Academy, and has finally spoken his name: Saku Fedo. For a while, that feels like enough.

Then Lord Fenrath appears in the Noble City — a traveling noble in white, leaving bodies, broken stone, and impossible violence behind. But Fenrath is no human. He is the dead First King of Garudore, reborn through grief, rage, and an immortal core, hunting the last Yazukaze for a betrayal built on lies.

As old sins rise and buried truths close in, Mildern must face a monster shaped by a war he never chose.