Reborn as Kuro: The Dark Dragon’s Heir
After dying abruptly from a gunshot on a quiet street, Reo awakens in an interval beyond death – a black, reflective void overseen by Ophelia, a detached goddess who governs reincarnation. She informs him plainly that he is dead, that rebirth is automatic, and that memory loss is the rule. This conversation, she notes, is not supposed to happen.
An anomaly follows.
Ophelia presents six Legacy cards - forces that may shape the next life. Five glow with defined, powerful outcomes. The sixth is blank, absorbing light rather than reflecting it. Ophelia hesitates before explaining it, admitting that its effects are unknown and that survival is not guaranteed. Sensing that the choice itself matters more than power, Reo reaches for the blank card.
It breaks reality instead of blessing it.
The card reveals itself as the SSS-Rank Dark Dragon Legacy, a forbidden inheritance erased from history. Ophelia confesses that only one human ever bore it – and whatever resulted was removed so completely that even she cannot trace the outcome. As the divine interval collapses under the weight of the Legacy’s activation, Ophelia watches in disbelief and whispers, “So it chose you.”
Reo is reborn as Kuro, the son of a noble household.
His rebirth is not triumphant. He enters the world helpless, overwhelmed, and stripped of conscious memory. Though fragments linger only as weight and instinct, the Dark Dragon Legacy lies dormant within him – silent, heavy, watching.
When Kuro later fails to manifest magical aptitude during his awakening ceremony, he is deemed a disgrace. His father, cold and calculating, sees political danger and something deeply unnatural in the child. Fearing both scandal and what Kuro may become, he orders the boy’s execution in secret.
Kuro’s mother intervenes.
Unable to oppose her husband openly, she orchestrates her son’s exile instead – sending him under a false identity to a distant frontier town, cutting him off from his name, his birthright, and his past.
Years later, the Dark Dragon Legacy finally awakens.
Not explosively, but deliberately.
Unlike other Legacies, it does not grant fixed power. It grows through restraint, choice, and internal conflict – responding to Kuro’s will rather than dominating it. As he builds a new life and forms bonds he never had before, fragments of a deeper truth surface: the Dark Dragon was never meant to conquer the world.
It was meant to correct it.
And though Kuro no longer seeks blind revenge, one truth remains unchanged.
When the time comes, he will return – not as a discarded child, but as a reckoning his father cannot escape.
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