Three days. That's how long the smell of burning pine and blood has clung to the air after Queen Nii Katsumi's devastating attack. The rumors were true: the ruthless Queen didn't just want tribute-she wanted annihilation.

For Yutani Emu, the life she knew is ash. Her friends, Kiko and Haru, and everyone she loved have been silenced. Her oath is no longer to the Yutani Clan, but to the dead. Clad in her armor, wielding her blade, Yutani makes a solemn promise: to bring the head of "the serpent that poisoned our well". She vows that they will not have died in vain.

Her target: Azuma, the Imperial City and Queen Katsumi's jewel. A city of a thousand eyes where every shadow is a potential enemy.

A direct assault is suicide. Yutani must uncover the Queen's weakness, her fear, the shadows that fester beneath the city's glitter. Her investigation begins with whispers of a new decree-a chilling "purification" aimed at those who "still cling to the old ways," the same words used before her village was burned. This quest for information leads her to Master Hatori, the Queen's Chief Archivist, and a terrifying revelation hidden in the ancient texts: the 'Shadow Bloom'.

A vengeful female samurai. A tyrannical queen. A city hiding a dark secret.

What is the Shadow Bloom? And will Yutani find the justice she seeks before the Queen's tide washes everything away? Yutani's hunt has begun -and the Imperial City will never be the same.

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