OPENING SCENE – SKY IN BLOOMING RUIN
The battlefield is silent. Daiso stands atop cracked stone, the Underblade stabbed into the earth. Dark lightning dances around him. He smiles faintly.
DAISO (to the sky):
Let their strength rot in memory.
He raises the Underblade. A pulse of red light explodes outward. The entire sky twists like liquid glass. Everyone is swallowed in light—
INT. MEMORY REALM – FLOATING IN RED ETHER
Shin-Ri, Maen, Lyceum, Sylden, Zana, and the rest find themselves suspended in a red-hued space, unable to move.
DAISO (V.O.):
You wield swords with pride.
But pride is forged in pain.
Let me show you how each of you were broken.
🔥 DETAILED TRAGIC BACKSTORIES – ONE BY ONE
🗡️ SHIN-RI
A burning village. Screams in the dark. A young boy hides under a table, gripping a wooden sword. Blood trickles down his forehead.
SHIN-RI'S MOTHER (offscreen):
Run, Shin-Ri! Don't look back!
Shin-Ri looks anyway. The faceless entity bursts into the home. It glides. Silent. Hungry.
His mother is cut down in front of him. Then silence. A slow creaking as the entity looks directly under the table—
ENTITY (whispering):
You'll be perfect when you forget who you are.
🔥 KAZU
A thunderstorm rages. Kazu, age 9, hides beneath a shack while a drunken father drags him by the collar.
FATHER:
Monster. Freak. I should've left you in the fire!
Kazu screams—an unnatural, deep sound. Flames burst from his throat. The shack burns. His father collapses, burning alive.
A shadowy demon steps from the forest and kneels before young Kazu.
DEMON:
Even the cursed have kings. Come home.
⚡ ZANA
A brutal factory. Sparks fly. Zana, a child, is chained to a wall, electric wires jammed into her back. Overseers laugh.
OVERSEER:
You're a battery, not a person.
She screams. Sparks. Then silence. She stands—eyes glowing. She touches the wall and electrocutes the entire complex in one massive surge. Everyone dies. She walks away barefoot.
🪽 SYLDEN
An angelic woman bleeds out on ancient marble.
SYLDEN (younger, frantic):
Please... not you too...
WOMAN:
Your wings saved no one.
So let them burn.
She dies. Her phoenix-shaped earring falls into his hand. Sylden screams—and when he stands, his wings ignite for the first time.
⚔️ MAEN
She runs through hallways as scientists chase her with needles and metal rods.
SCIENTIST:
Subject 12: respond to increased voltage!
They catch her. Restrain her. Shock her. She screams—but her arms blur, breaking free.
YOUNG MAEN:
You can't stop what you can't see.
🕊️ LYCEUM'S BACKSTORY
Memory Realm – The Falling Temple
We see Lyceum younger—without wings—kneeling at the top of a silver staircase in a Celestial Temple, surrounded by radiant beings. The sun never sets here.
CELESTIAL COUNCIL:
You interfered with mortals.
You stained the code.
You are not divine.
YOUNG LYCÉUM (calm):
Divine?
You watched a village burn and said nothing.
The council strikes with a golden brand. His wings are forcibly stripped—burnt off, turning to ash mid-air. He screams silently.
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Later—exiled on Earth, wings regrown but scarred—he watches a mortal town flourish, unnoticed, as he hides in the treetops.
LYCÉUM (V.O.):
They cast me out for caring.
But mortals break beautifully.
And I chose to break with them.
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⚔️ GOJIRO'S BACKSTORY (Sensei)
Memory Realm – The Sword Graveyard
Gojiro walks across a desolate field filled with rusted swords sticking out of the ground. Rain falls. Thunder rumbles. He's younger, dragging a wounded child behind him. That child dies before they find help.
He drops to his knees and buries the child beside a nameless sword.
GOJIRO (whispers):
I was late again...
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Later, he trains in the old ways with his master. But he is always too slow to save, too fast to strike.
Eventually, he sees his entire dojo burned in a raid by corrupted sword users. Only one student survived—Shin-Ri, found years later.
GOJIRO (V.O.):
I wasn't born a teacher.
But I've failed enough to become one.
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🔥 NYARI'S BACKSTORY (The Empress)
Memory Realm – The Throne of Ashes
Young Nyari sits on an ornate throne. She's surrounded by phoenix statues—but her eyes are sad. Her mother, the former empress, stands bleeding at the feet of a traitor general.
TRAITOR GENERAL:
You were always too radiant for this broken kingdom.
He plunges his sword into the former empress. Flames erupt from her body as she dies—a phoenix's final fire—scarring Nyari's face but also awakening her powers.
YOUNG NYARI (screaming):
MOTHER!!!
Her dress burns away. She steps through flame—unchained, wielding the very same Red Phoenix Sword she uses now.
NYARI (V.O.):
They took my crown.
So I forged a blade in its place.
⚔️ FLASHBACK – SENSEI GOJIRO & THE FORBIDDEN SWORDSMAN (RENJU)
20 years ago. On a battlefield soaked in blood. Gojiro and Renju fight back-to-back.
GOJIRO:
We're not heroes. Just survivors.
RENJU:
Then let's survive loud.
Later, Renju picks up a cursed sword from a fallen general. It infects him immediately. His eyes darken.
GOJIRO:
Don't touch that—!
RENJU (smirking):
Gojiro… maybe pain is the only sword left worth drawing.
He walks away into the fog, leaving Gojiro behind.
BACK TO MEMORY REALM
Everyone falls to their knees. Tears. Rage. Silence.
DAISO (standing above):
This is what you forgot.
Now fight knowing it.
SUDDEN DESCENT – KAZU ARRIVES FULLY TRANSFORMED
Kazu crashes into the center of the battlefield. Wings of molten ash. Horns. Eyes glowing like furnaces.
KAZU (distorted voice):
You saw my past.
Now meet my future.
He slashes through a group of Swordsboys—effortless and brutal. They fall.
THE FIRST BLADE FINALLY MOVES
The sky rips. The First Blade, a towering iron-wrapped being, floats downward—face obscured by runes and cracks. A haunting hum fills the air.
LYCEUM:
It's waking up...
ZANA:
No. It's hunting.
It raises its massive sword—shaped like a thousand shattered blades fused together.
THE SIGNATURE TECHNIQUES UNLEASHED
⚡ ZANA – "Surge Limit: Volta Breaker"
A crackling explosion of lightning. She blitzes through a dozen possessed soldiers in milliseconds, leaving only molten armor behind.
🪽 SYLDEN – "Memory Drive: Ghostfeather Waltz"
He vanishes into white streaks of wing-light, slicing a perfect spiral through shadows, a dance of vengeance.
🕊️ LYCÉUM – "Celestia Endura: Spear of Heavenfall"
He calls down a colossal beam of light that hurls a holy spear from the stratosphere. It hits the First Blade—but it doesn't fall.
FINAL MOMENTS
Shin-Ri watches everything fall apart—his friends dying, Kazu gone, the First Blade standing tall. His cursed sword trembles in his grip.
SHIN-RI (V.O.):
This world forged us in sorrow...
But sorrow is steel.
He walks forward. Alone.
SHIN-RI:
Daiso.
First Blade.
Kazu.
SHIN-RI (raising sword):
I'm not running anymore.
TO BE CONTINUED...