Sakamoto's Age: 6.5
Current Location: Borderlands of Cael Vorr
Alias: Ashborn Echo
Status: Watched by the Capital, hunted by the Bladesisters, haunted by memory
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Opening Line:
They call me a prince of ash now.
Not because I rule.
Because I walked out of the flames. And never looked back.
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Sakamoto Now
He stands taller.
Hair darker. Eyes colder.
A cloak of charred feathers over his back — a trophy from the Reach.
He doesn't smile anymore.
He doesn't scream either.
But when he speaks, the world listens.
> "Report," he tells Ravian.
> "Three sightings. One glyph surge. And…" Ravian hesitates.
> "Say it."
> "A girl matching Aelira's old resonance was detected in the southern frost fields."
Silence.
Then Sakamoto turns.
> "We move at dusk."
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World Status – 2 Years After Reach
Harrow's Reach is still blackened stone — no one rebuilt it
The capital split into two factions:
The Cleansing Court: who want Sakamoto erased
The Preservers: who believe he's the last hope
Three of the original Bladesisters are dead
One name spreads through underground circles:
> Ashborn Echo — a cursed reincarnated boy who burned a city for someone he loved
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Ravian's Transformation
Ravian isn't just a shadow anymore.
He's fast. Precise. Wears echo-blades — forged from fragments of Sakamoto's former spells.
He carries letters from the capital.
One is unopened.
> "You still haven't read it?" Sakamoto asks.
> "No."
> "Why?"
> "Because if it confirms what I think… I'll have to kill someone."
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New Vision – The Glyph Girl Wakes
Far across the frost lands, a girl opens her eyes.
She's not Aelira. But something in her pulses with the same magic.
Black glyphs on her arms.
White flame around her wrists.
And a single name whispered in her dreams:
> "Sakamoto…"
She stands.
The ice cracks beneath her.
And she begins walking north.
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Final Scene – The Map Lights Up
Sakamoto unfolds a tattered war map.
Six cities marked in black.
One marked in red:
> Velduin.
Where it all began.
> "We start where I died," he says.