Cursed Blade-The Life Sucking Edge

Kiri just wanted a lifeline. Joining the military was meant to be his escape. It was supposed to be occasional manual labor, routine training and the extermination of bandit camps along the border. Low risk and stable pay.

Instead, he is deployed to the Tsuda Salient—a place where tensions from past wars are waiting to explode, right as he enlists.

During a hauntingly quiet night patrol in the woods, an unnatural sickness causes Kiri to stumble upon a blade. Curved like a crescent moon and housed in a scabbard of dragons and flowers, the sword grants him supernatural power. But power isn't free. After using the sword for the first time, his fingertips become deadened and pitch black…

When peace negotiations collapse in the capital, the crown is forced into an impossible strategic retreat to save the kingdom: abandoning the salient to concentrate all forces along the castle belt.

Kiri’s outpost is now isolated with no further aid, left behind to stall an overwhelming enemy rush. Surrounded and outnumbered, Kiri has to make a choice: allow the cursed sword to consume him whole so he lives to see another day, or die as just another face in the mud, far away from home.