The sky was bleeding again.
Smoke danced through the broken silhouettes of skyscrapers, as if the heavens themselves were mourning.
Somewhere within the charred skeleton of Eden City, a boy stood—motionless—amidst the carnage. His eyes reflected nothing... just void.
His name was Kai Renshiro.
But today, he was no one.
His breath shallow. Heart numb. The world felt... distant.
"Why am I still alive?"
The question echoed in his mind as sirens screamed in the distance.
All he could hear was silence.
Then—
BOOM!
A crack split the air as the horizon was engulfed in a blue inferno. The last remaining tower—the core of Eden—collapsed like a puppet without strings.
And in the ashes... something stirred.
A whisper.
A pulse.
Then...
> "You're finally awake... Eclipse Warden."
Kai turned. There was no one.
And yet—
Something ancient had awakened within him.
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