夜を歩く者 • The One Who Walks at Night 🌙 | Prologue I

This started as the opening sequence for a sequence short story, but once the introduction reached almost two minutes, I decided it deserved to exist on its own before moving forward. This first part introduces the world and the woman at the center of it. A cursed samurai who can no longer walk beneath the sun. She moves from village to village at night, trains alone, repeats the same rituals, prays, and keeps following a path she still doesn’t fully understand. There are already pieces of her past here, but I wanted to take my time with them. The moon, the empty villages, the sword practice, the temple, the water, the silence. These scenes are there to establish her routine and the weight she has been carrying long before the real conflict begins. The Oni at the end is only the first encounter. I’m continuing the story from here, with each part revealing a little more about her curse, the creatures that seem connected to it, and what she is actually trying to recover. For now, this is the beginning of Bone Road.