by Zukashi Kato
Hyoga is a seventeen-year-old boy born into a bloodline incapable of using magic, abandoned by his parents and raised by his grandfather in a medieval fantasy world where talent defines worth. Training as a swordsman at a knight academy, he lives on the edge of society, unseen and underestimated. After his grandfather’s sudden death, Hyoga discovers a forbidden relic hidden away for centuries: an eye that once belonged to Kagetsu, the Hero of Slaughter—a legendary figure who defeated the Demon King a thousand years ago, then turned against humanity itself. When the relic fuses with Hyoga, Kagetsu’s soul awakens within him. As the sinful hero begins to reclaim control over Hyoga’s body, the boy is forced into a brutal inner conflict against a man history called a savior but reality remembers as a mass murderer. Caught between inherited guilt and his own will, Hyoga must decide whether to resist the hero’s return—or become the vessel that brings an ancient catastrophe back into the world.
