Frozen snowflakes wafted through the air. Smears of shattered blood spattered the icy ground against the light blue-white of the surrounding frost. This couldn't be the present nor the future.
Asahi found himself wedged deep in a narrow crevice as the world around him was locked in a merciless blizzard.
Billowing winds wailed and twisted, their force whipping his hair and jerking at his ragged clothing, threatening to tear them from his body.
Numbness crawled up his limbs, dulling pain and sensation until he felt like a flash fighting against the ice.
The wind's roar was ear-splitting, shriveling his ears in one foul swoop. Then his vision narrowed, catching a glint of steel ahead of him.
Half-embedded in the frozen stone, stood the legendary blade, its hilt radiating with a pale blue light.
