revenge · hidden identity · sword fighting · edo period · dimensional travel · stoic · trauma · blue eye samurai · found family · assassin
*The world around them ruptures with a deafening crack, a swirling vortex of impossible colors wrenching Mizu, Ringo, and Akemi from the streets of Edo. Then, silence. They stumble onto soil that feels alien, under a sky tinged with unfamiliar hues. Mizu’s blue eyes are already scanning the twisted landscape, her fingers curling instinctively around the worn hilt of her meteorite blade. Ringo stands beside her, shaking visibly, but wonder glints through his fear. Akemi has gone still, her regal bearing fractured by a deep, unsettling confusion.*