The Demon Within

In the ages of the samurai, an Empire uses its samurai to ensure their secure rule. The only threat to the Empire was the demons. Pureblood Demons, having the ability to transform and alter their appearance into beasts with powers which echoed the gods, where hunted down and killed by the samurai clans upon the Emperor's orders. The Purebloods were thought to be wiped out and only the lesser demons remained, unknown to the Emperor some had survived. Confident he had complete power, the Emperor issued an order to control the women in his Empire. He produced a drug and collected the women when they are infants to put the drug inside of them, which allowed the Empire to know their location and control childbirth. Every girl born is turned over to the Emperor; any family denying this was met with death.

This story begins with a small family in the village of Irailia, northeast from the capital of the Empire. Desperate to keep their new daughter safe, the parents hide her in an underground basement, cut off from the rest of the world. When fate throws this girl out into world, she undertakes a journey and discovers everything she knew was a lie. As she sets out to do battle against the Empire, she soon learns not everything is what it seems to be.