The story is about a middle schooler named kai. Kai is a lone but very smart boy who is concluded as the best student in his class, but ironically everybody gives him the benefit of the doubt as he is not socially popular and is instead compared to a girl who ranks second only to him but is considered the first due to her popularity, well liked and using her looks and words to her advantage and kai knows this. One day, kai is walking home as his father who usually picks him up had work and couldnt make it. He spots a man with dark clothes talking to an acquaintance and hears him mentioning a martial arts tournaments. Kai, being the martial arts freak decides to approach him and ask him for it but the man leaves. Kai, being curious decides to follow the man into an ally way. Here, the man walks through a door and kai shamelesly walks into it. He is amazed as he climbs down a long set of stairs and sees a giant structure underground covered in ruins and vines. The man goes in the temple like structure and kai follows behind only to discover something that would have been shocking and unnerving to anyone but kai, who is amazed to see fighters his age fighting and training against each other with weapons, and soaked with blood. Before kai can explore any further a whisperer catches him in the act and guards are sent after him.
(Whiperers are a role within the ruins hiarchy that are the emperor's direct inforcers and intelligence gatherers. Their works also includes recruiting vips and also eliminating any threat to the ruins by any means necessary)
After making a run for it he reaches a dead end.
Kai is now anxious.
"why are they after me?"
"who are these people?"
"what is this place?"
are the thoughts that ran through kais head.
with no other choice, kai started at the wall infront of him, took a deep breath and turned around to facv the entirety of the guards.
The first two guards were a blur of aggression. Kai, moving on pure instinct, sidestepped a wide haymaker