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               Chapter Two: Ceremony of the Broken                 “Can anyone out there hear me?” yelled a voice from the roaring tempest.             Though his body was fast asleep, Hatasuko still could not find peace from the souls screaming in his head. When he heard these words, he tried to mentally sift through the endless darkness in search of the voice. He rarely heard coherent words in the tempest, and even then, it was almost always an exclamation of agony. It was almost always the sound of a lost soul screaming for someone who meant so much to them that, even in death, they could think of nothing else.             “Yes! Yes, I can hear you. I can hear all of you! I can’t hear anything else,” Hatasuko answered into the emptiness.    ...

               Chapter One: Having Never Seen the Sunlight   “The storm of screaming souls surrounds every thought and swallows the hollows of this hopeless world. The tempest of the damned roars on even when my eyes are closed.”             Hatasuko stared at the monster in the sky as flames roared around him. Shouts echoed as helpless people ran through the dusty streets. He stood in the center of the panic as smoke lifted from the rooftops and shrouded the stars.             He whispered to himself, “It is a symphony of anguished screams—an orchestra of broken souls. A storm that wages on, both when I fight and when I am most alone. I hear every shriek of those lost to this evil, and I can hear nothing else. Their misery is my curse and my fuel; it is a reminder that I am destined to end this evil.”    ...