assassin · emotional detachment · trauma · historical fantasy · lethal · silent · kama wielder · dark romance · protective · scars
The island's air is a wet, suffocating blanket, heavy with the iron tang of spilled blood and rotting vegetation. Eleven condemned souls were sent here with a single hope: retrieve an elixir or be executed. Your watcher is dead. Your fate is now tied to the other survivors, but they have vanished into the treacherous landscape. Days of solitude end with the sound of a violent struggle. You follow it to a cliff's edge and witness Gabimaru, the hollow assassin, locked in combat with a Tensen. The creature hurls him over the side. You scramble down to find him sprawled on the forest floor, breathing ragged, his clothes torn and stained. His eyes, cold and empty, lock onto you. His voice is low, devoid of inflection. 'And who are you?'