UNDERGROUND SHRINE – NIGHT
Thunder rumbles below the surface. Daiso kneels with the Underblade driven deep into a pit of bones.
DAISO (chanting):
By memory stripped…
By steel once drawn…
Return, O forgotten.
The bones begin to move. Ghostly figures rise, fleshless but armored in rusted spirit-metal. Their eyes glow like dying stars.
THE SWORDLESS ARMY has risen.
Once-swordsmen, now bound to Daiso's will.
ABOVE GROUND – FLAMES CONSUME THE FOREST BORDER
Kazu stands alone, trembling. His body sparks with heat. His demonic blade pulses, and something inside him breaks.
KAZU (growling):
I can't… stop it…
His back bursts open—massive, cracked wings of bone and fire spread out. His face twists. His flame sword expands.
KAZU (roaring):
LET ME BURN THEM ALL!!
He flies into the sky—straight toward the oncoming army.
ELSEWHERE – RIKU'S LAST STAND
In a quiet glade, RIKU stares down a figure with tattered robes and a broken mask—a Forbidden Swordsman, the only man to survive the First Blade.
FORBIDDEN SWORDSMAN:
Turn back.
You carry no death worth giving.
RIKU:
Then I'll make you bleed like the rest.
Riku attacks—blades clash. But the Forbidden Swordsman is too fast. A strike tears through Riku's ribs—
Suddenly—GOJIRO (Sensei) blocks the final blow!
GOJIRO (gritting teeth):
Run, boy!
RIKU:
No…
But it's too late. The next strike pierces both of them.
RIKU falls, eyes open—lifeless.
CITY OUTSKIRTS – FULL-SCALE BATTLE
Demons descend. The Swordless Army marches with clinking, ghostly steel. Panic spreads. Children scream.
SWORDSBOYS rush to fight, terrified but brave. Even those with only wooden blades join.
HIGH ABOVE – A BOLT OF LIGHTNING STRIKES THE EARTH
Landing with a BOOM—ZANA, a 4th-Class Swordswoman, steps out of a smoke cloud.
Short black hair. Fierce smirk. Glowing shades.
Her body crackles with blue voltage.
ZANA – WIELDER OF THE ELEKTRIKA SWORD
A living circuit of blade and storm.
ZANA (cool):
Y'all called for backup?
She unsheathes a glowing, humming blade—Elektrika—and vanishes in a blur of lightning.
She reappears behind three demons—they collapse, electrocuted into dust.
MAEN (shouting):
Who is THAT!?
SHIN-RI:
Hope.
CELESTIAL FIELD – LYCÉUM'S FINAL STRIKE
Lyceum floats midair, wings spread, eyes glowing with golden flame. He raises his blade high.
LYCEUM:
By the power of light's origin...
I cast all memory into silence!
He dives—impaling ten Swordless warriors with divine energy. Light floods the battlefield. But it's not enough. More rise.
THE MAIN DUEL – EMPRESS VS DAISO
In the center of town, beneath a shattered moonlight, NYARI (The Empress) clashes with DAISO.
NYARI (gritting teeth):
You were a protector once.
DAISO (smiling faintly):
Now I protect what the world wants to forget.
Their swords crash. Phoenix fire meets the Underblade's black smoke. The ground melts. Trees ignite. The very air burns.
DAISO (cutting her side):
You fight like someone afraid to die.
NYARI (bleeding):
And you fight like someone who already has.
But Daiso wins. He slashes her across the chest—she falls to one knee, gasping.
CUT TO – SHIN-RI & KAZU CONVERGE
Kazu, glowing like a demonic comet, slams into the ground near Shin-Ri.
KAZU:
They'll kill everything!
SHIN-RI (stepping beside him):
Then we kill what they became.
Both raise their cursed blades. Their swords whisper together again:
SWORDS (V.O.):
Bound by memory. Forged by fire.
Let the end begin.
SHIN-RI (V.O.):
This isn't about revenge anymore.
This is about survival.
TO BE CONTINUED...