EXT. TRIAL ARENA – NIGHT — TOTAL CHAOS
The once-lively stage where the Sword Trials began is now a burning graveyard. Screams fill the air. Swordsboys — young warriors, barely trained — fight desperately against demonic hordes. Some are already dead. Others run, cry, or swing blindly.
Maen:
They're falling—!
A fireball blasts the ground near her. She dodges, dragging a wounded boy to cover. Blood sprays across her cheeks. A Swordsboy screams as a demon stabs through his gut and tosses his body.
MID-AIR – SHIN-RI VS KAZU (DEMON FORM)
Kazu, now monstrous, black wings flared wide, flies high above the battlefield. His sword burns like a piece of the sun. Shin-Ri leaps upward using debris and floating platforms, clashing with Kazu in midair.
KAZU (voice distorted):
They all hated us! You just forgot!
SHIN-RI (screaming):
You're not like this!
You're not a monster!
Kazu slams his sword down—Shin-Ri blocks but is hurled across the air. He crashes through a roof and coughs blood.
NEAR THE MAIN STAGE – SYLDEN & ZANA
Sylden dashes through a cluster of demons with his Ghostfeather Waltz, cutting through five at once, but he's bleeding. Zana lands beside him, electricity pulsing through her hair like lightning.
ZANA:
They're endless. These aren't foot soldiers. They're harvesters.
SYLDEN (panting):
Then let's burn the field.
They launch a combo: Zana uses Volta Burst, sending electric waves through the enemy ranks. Sylden slams his sword into the ground, creating a wind-shockwave that hurls enemies into the air.
HIGH ABOVE – FIRST BLADE WATCHES
The First Blade hovers in the sky, its thousand-bladed form humming with malice. It's not attacking—just watching. Waiting. Below it, Daiso raises the Underblade again, his face cracking into black veins.
DAISO (chanting):
Let all memory end. Let steel rot. Let light fall.
A massive memory pulse erupts. The battlefield glitches — some warriors freeze mid-swing. Others drop their swords, screaming as their worst memories return all at once.
FLASHCUT – SHIN-RI'S NIGHTMARE VISION
Shin-Ri sees his mother dying again. Over and over. Each time, a different version. One where she blames him. One where she's already dead. One where he never existed.
MOTHER (whispers):
You let me burn.
SHIN-RI (screaming):
NO!!
REALITY — SHIN-RI STABS HIMSELF
Shin-Ri, trembling, drives his sword into his own leg to break the illusion. Blood pours down his thigh.
SHIN-RI (gasping):
I'm here.
I'm real.
And I'm ending this.
CUT TO – LYCÉUM VS DAISO
Lyceum launches himself into the sky with wings blazing silver. He clashes blades with Daiso midair in a flash of gold and black. Each strike causes shockwaves that blow away anything nearby.
LYCÉUM:
You used pain to fuel your ego.
DAISO (laughing):
And you used guilt to build a crown.
We're the same, angel boy.
Daiso lands a strike across Lyceum's chest — he falls fast, hitting the ground hard. He groans, wings twitching.
ZANA DEFENDS FALLING SWORDSB0YS
Three Swordsboys try to flee but get cornered by crawling demons. Zana arrives in a blur of blue and electrocutes the swarm in a crackling storm. She grabs one boy's collar.
ZANA:
If you're gonna run, run with purpose.
Or die with your eyes open.
NEAR THE HILL — MAEN VS POSSESSED SWORDSB0YS
A group of corrupted Swordsboys attack Maen — their eyes pitch black. She cries but fights, using her fast arms to disarm, disable, and strike each with surgical precision.
MAEN (sobbing):
You were my friends...!
She knocks the last one unconscious, kneeling, breathing hard.
THE FINAL DUEL BEGINS — SHIN-RI VS DAISO
Daiso lands with the Underblade. Shin-Ri approaches — bleeding, barely able to walk, but sword raised. The storm churns above them.
DAISO:
You think you can kill me, boy?
SHIN-RI:
No.
But I can break you.
THE DUEL
Shin-Ri rushes forward. Daiso blocks — but Shin-Ri's movements are calculated, unpredictable. He's studied Daiso's style.
Each blow Shin-Ri lands is a memory — a lesson.
The way Sensei turned his wrist
The step Maen taught him
The electric feint Zana once used
The windstep from Sylden's flight
The timing of Lyceum's thrust
He uses it all.
SHIN-RI'S FINAL MOVE – "Severance"
He channels everything — swings in a wide arc — and strikes the Underblade directly.
The cursed weapon shatters. Daiso screams. Light erupts from his chest. He collapses to his knees.
DAISO:
I wanted to be… remembered...
SHIN-RI (softly):
Then you shouldn't have erased us.
Daiso disintegrates into light. Gone.
THE FIRST BLADE — OBSERVES… THEN LEAVES
Everyone looks up. The First Blade still floats — but now, without Daiso's connection, it begins to fade. The sword in its grasp spins in slow circles.
It looks at Shin-Ri directly.
FIRST BLADE (telepathic voice):
One day... you will beg to forget.
And with that, it vanishes into the sky.
MOMENTS LATER — THE GROUND RUMBLES
A deep crack splits across the town. The earth groans like it's grieving.
SYLDEN (wide-eyed):
It's collapsing.
LUCÉUM (limping):
The town... it's gone.
ESCAPE TO THE MOUNTAINS
The survivors — barely twenty of them — run, drag the wounded, carry the young. They flee uphill, the flames behind them.
Shin-Ri and Maen support a limping Swordsboy. Zana holds up Lyceum. Sylden carries two bodies, face unreadable.
EXT. MOUNTAIN CLIFF – NIGHT
They all gather in silence. The entire town is now a broken pit of fire and ruin. Homes gone. The Sword Trials arena crushed. Nothing remains but ash and sword hilts.
MAEN (whispering):
They're all gone...
ZANA (arms crossed):
No. We're still here.
SYLDEN:
But for how long?
SHIN-RI — STARES AT THE SKY
He stares at the stars, breathing heavily, covered in blood and dirt. His cursed sword whispers faintly, but he ignores it this time.
SHIN-RI (V.O.):
We lost everything.
But not the reason why we fight.
This isn't the end.
This is where legends begin.
TO BE CONTINUED...