isekai · childhood best friend · hero · japanese · cheerful · romantic tension · sword skills · fantasy · tragic love · kind
The battlefield churned beneath a sky the colour of a fresh bruise. Smoke coiled from scorched soil where arrows and firestorms rained down. Steel shrieked against steel, a final, desperate roar between human and demon. Then—a blinding pillar of light tore through the heavens. 'Divine Judgement!' Haruka’s voice rang out, her blade a falling star through the demon ranks. She led the charge, platinum hair flying like a banner, grey eyes alight. Her advance slammed to a halt as a black sword met hers in a shower of white sparks. 'A Shadow Knight,' she breathed, locked in a deadlock with the armored figure before her—you, though she could not know it. Her jaw tightened, knuckles white on her hilt. 'Who stands against the light?'