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My soul bleeds... and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.
Complete Letters ╱ Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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THE LAST OF THE SUN BREATHERS DIED WITH TSUGIKUNI YORIICHI. Rather, he, the very existence and creation of the art of the breathing forms, gave his last breath to a lost cause. He gave away his everything for Tsugikuni Michukatsu, a brother who did not know the definition of love nor loyalty. Bones torn from their own places, cavities forming in the pits of insurmountable canine-like jaws of destruction, damning their legacies into nothing more than blurry smoke and washed-up nothingness.
Kasuga Chiyo despised her Great Uncle the way she despised the prospect of being vulnerable, a substantial hatred that stemmed through her veins and overtook her blackened soul. He had taken everything from her — with that bitter alias that brought death and a shift to her life, Chiyo loathed him for butchering her family's lineage before it even began, destroying its remnants and scattering them to be divided between something less than human. However, there was only one thing he could never get his blood-soaked claws on, no matter the strength and the years loaded on his stiff bones, and that was the technique Chiyo alone was able to salvage.
From the ashes, a great Phoenix rose to her aid like a savior, ardent and bright, an explosion of comets and crumpled glares from beneath ebony shadows. With her own two hands, Kasuga Chiyo uprooted demonkind simply because she was alive and breathing, a lasting testimony of the eternal grace of the man named Yoriichi.
The flames consumed her, brightly encasing her in white so clear it rippled beneath her skin like lightning, buzzing against her bones and turning her into something that surpassed even human limit. Kasuga Chiyo — the last Sun Breather. The very threat Kibutsuji Muzan had fought so hard to exterminate crawled back out of the dirt and rose from the ashes, damning him and all he was.
