The Prince At Mildern Duke Hall Manor - "Yami no Ōji - 闇の王子"
Yami no Ōji - 闇の王子 - The Prince of Darkness - Series Description
Ten-year-old Kael Valdris didn't run from his burning kingdom—he was the one who burned it.
During a summer festival, a moment of childhood anger awakened magic he didn't know he possessed: crimson-black flames that don't burn flesh but corrupt souls. Emotions amplify beyond control. Love becomes obsession. Protection becomes violence.
Fear becomes madness. In minutes, his power transforms an entire kingdom into a nightmare of people trapped inside their own feelings, unable to stop, unable to die quickly.
His father, trying to protect him, becomes corrupted—his protective instinct twisted into murderous paranoia. His mother tries to save him with a lullaby. His corrupted father kills her, thinking she's a threat. Kael's grief detonates every spark of his magic.
By dawn, the Valdris Kingdom is ash and screams. His best friends dead. His parents dead. Everyone he ever loved—dead by his hands.
For seven days, he wanders the ruins looking for survivors, finding only corpses and people whose minds broke but bodies stubbornly continue. On the seventh day, knife pressed to his throat, a stranger named Patrix Whoguard offers him a choice: die here, or spend the rest of his life making it mean something.
Kael chooses to live. Barely. He spends years on the streets, learning that his touch corrupts, that kindness kills, that connection destroys. He becomes a founding member of the Council of Eight—an institution meant to protect people from magic's dangers.
But the corruption spreading through his veins isn't just physical. It's ideological.
Watch as someone who really wanted desperately to help people becomes the architect of the system that fails them. As noble intentions rot into political compromise. As found family becomes toxic institution. As the price of making your sins "mean something" becomes higher than death ever was.
This is the story of how Kael Valdris—the Prince of Darkness—tried to build something good from the ashes of everyone he killed, and slowly realized he was just creating a different kind of fire.
Some people carry their sins like weapons. Kael carried his like seeds, hoping something good might grow from the blood. He was wrong about many things. But not about that.
Rating: MA19+ - Contains graphic violence, mass death, psychological horror, and blood and gore entirely