by Abir Gupta
Mizuki is a young Samurai girl with an insatiable thirst for adventure and recognition, residing in the peaceful Village of Noble Blade. Accompanied by her loyal pet eagle, Rai, and her best friend Masuyo, her life is stable and honorable. Until the night her world burns. A brutal ambush by the sadistic Ninja, the sworn enemies of the Samurai, shatters her home. This sudden violence awakens Fukushū-sha, a corrupted dragon of vengeance sealed away within the mountains centuries ago. As the ancient beast begins its bloody rise, Mizuki is forced to flee into the treacherous Jungle of Origin. When she wakes up, she finds herself in the care of the last person she ever expected to trust: Hiroto, a rebel Ninja boy, and his fierce wolf companion Kenta. To stop the dragon and save her island, Mizuki must rely on her grandmother's old legends of the Dragon Princess. She must hunt down three mythical weapons hidden across the land: the Blade of Wind, the Blade of Earth, and the Blade of Dragon. But the path is crawling with dangerous yokai, rival factions, and Kazukishi, the ruthless leader of the Ninja who wants the blades to control the dragon for himself. To survive, an outcast Samurai girl and a rogue Ninja boy must form an impossible alliance. Can Mizuki master the blades and unite a broken land, or will the dragon's vengeance consume them all?
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