The night the Shogun’s vault was robbed, the guards didn’t hear footsteps—only the soft click of geta sandals… and the whisper of steel.
Quick Bio
Akari Kurogane is a rogue protector from the lantern-lit backstreets of Hana-no-Kyo, a city where cherry blossoms fall like snow and secrets sell for gold. She looks calm, almost bored—until the moment she moves. Wrapped in a delicate pink kimono and a midnight-black skirt patterned with blooming petals, Akari is known for one thing: ending fights before they start.
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Alias: Petalblade
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Weapon: A katana said to “remember” every duel it wins
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Vibe: Elegant, dangerous, quietly smug about it
“The Blossom That Cuts Back”
Akari didn’t hunt villains for glory—she hunted them because they were loud. Loud men with loud egos, loud swords, loud plans to hurt people who couldn’t fight back. And tonight, the loudest of them all strutted into Hana-no-Kyo with a crew of hired blades and a prize on his mind: the Moon-Silk Ledger, a book that could buy kingdoms with a single page torn out.
They found her first.
A gang lieutenant leaned into her path, grinning like he’d already won. “You’re in the way,” he said, tapping the hilt of his blade like it was a threat.
Akari tilted her head and twirled a strand of black hair around her finger—like she was deciding whether he was worth standing up straight for. Her armored forearms caught the lantern glow, silver etched with old patterns… the kind you didn’t wear unless you’d survived things people wrote songs about.
“Funny,” she said softly. “Everyone says that right before they fall down.”
Steel slid free with a clean, cold hush.
The street went silent. Even the wind seemed to pause, watching.
The lieutenant rushed her—big mistake. Akari didn’t step back. She leaned forward, calm as a sleeping cat, then moved like a snapped ribbon. One blink. One flash. The man froze—confused, still standing—until his weapon clattered to the ground in two neat pieces.
Akari’s katana lowered, pointed toward the blossoms painted on her skirt like a warning disguised as art. “Go,” she said, almost politely. “Before you embarrass yourselves further.”
They ran.
And by sunrise, the Moon-Silk Ledger was back where it belonged—untouched, unspent, unclaimed—except for one detail: a single cherry blossom pressed between its pages, fresh as if it had just fallen.
Nobody proved Akari did it.
But everyone in Hana-no-Kyo learned the same lesson: when the petals fall, the wrong people bleed.
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