That day, the sky over Emka seemed to weep.
Thunder rolled endlessly across the horizon, lightning splitting the clouds open with blinding fury — as if the heavens themselves mourned a legend's passing. The land trembled in sorrow, honoring the sword that once protected it.
Days turned to nights, and still the streets burned. People kept dying, chaos spreading like a plague. Emka had been saved from tyrants, only to fall into ruin once more.
Until Hiroto Hibuko — the son of Yami Hibuko — finally rose.
He stepped onto the throne his father once refused and faced a world drowning in disorder. He fought a decisive war against the Five Great Samurai Clans, a clash so immense it shook the foundations of Emka itself. And when the storm ended… Hiroto stood victorious.
Then he gathered the clans, each representative sitting before him in tense silence. With a calm yet unyielding voice, he spoke:
"You seem to have a misunderstanding," he said. "Closing our borders to the World Ruling Dominion is what makes Emka rise. Their ban on us is nothing but a curtain — a way to hide the tyranny they commit."
He paused, eyes sharp, voice firm.
"Yami Hibuko was the first to uncover their truth. That is why he was declared a threat. That is why they wanted him assassinated."
The hall fell into stunned stillness. The weight of his words crushed every doubt.
Hiroto then addressed each clan, clearing every misunderstanding one by one, dismantling the distrust that had poisoned them. And when they rose from their seats, the Five Great Samurai Clans were united once again under the banner of Hibuko.
And so, Hiroto Hibuko — the son of the legend — became the 2nd Kurozuki.
Peace, at last, began to return.