SOUL BREAKER

The trick to disappearing is consistency. Reiha Kurokami has been disappearing for eight years, and she is very good at it. In the neon-lit, fracture-scarred city of Ashenmori, seventeen-year-old Reiha lives a life defined by silence. Hiding behind a plain cloth mask and a carefully constructed "filing system" for her emotions, she has successfully buried the trauma of her past—along with every memory of the first nine years of her life. She is a girl with no name of her own, only the one handed to her in a hospital bed by the man who saved her from a collapsed Soulplane breach. But the past has a way of breathing. When a red oni mask mysteriously appears on her windowsill, Reiha’s internal walls begin to crumble. A single touch ignites memories of a glass sky, falling ash, and a younger version of herself making a desperate bargain. From the "hollow place" in her chest, a second consciousness awakens: Kurai, an ancient and patient guardian of the Soulplane who has been waiting eight years for Reiha to be "ready." As the city’s spiritual fractures begin to leak "copper-cold" energy and the sinister Void King begins harvesting souls on a massive scale, Reiha is forced out of the shadows. Recruited by the clandestine organization AXIS, she must trade her quiet life for a blade. With the help of the scarred Commander Ashido and the enigmatic Kurai, Reiha must learn to navigate the dying geography of the Soulplane. But as she hunts the monsters emerging from the fractures, she realizes the greatest threat isn't the Void King—it’s the truth behind the deal she made as a child. Reiha Kurokami isn't just an amnesiac survivor. She is the only one who can break a soul... starting with her own.