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Chapter 7 - CHAPTER 6Blade in blood

Sensue Takani's Private Bar – Hidden Room, Osaka 

🕰️ 11:48 PM

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> A low-lit room. Bottles of rare sake line the wall.

No music. No laughter. Just the faint sound of ice in a glass.

> Ejami Nakamura sits across from Sensue Takani — head of the Takani family.

Two untouched drinks sit between them.

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Sensue (calm, with precision):

> "It's 2v3 now."

> He picks up his glass.

"Cassano has three enemies.

Sebastian… the same."

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> Ejami takes her glass.

Silent. Measured sip.

Then lets out a dry chuckle.

Ejami (cold smile):

> "Balance… finally."

> They toast. No more words.

Just understanding.

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> The screen fades — but the sound rises.

Low drums. A heartbeat. Then… silence.

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🎬 TRANSITION: "The First Strike"

Sebastian Family – Dockside Warehouse

🕰️ 1:13 AM

> A storm rolls in.

Guards stand half-asleep. Then —

WHISTLE. THWIP.

One collapses — dagger through the neck.

> Dozens of silent shadows move in.

Black-clad swordsmen of the Takani Clan breach silently from the rooftops.

> On the other side — masked snipers from the Nakamura Clan open fire from abandoned cranes.

> In minutes, the warehouse is engulfed.

Ammo ignites. Fire climbs the walls.

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🎬CUT TO: Cassano Territory – Firearms Factory.

🕰️ 1:41 AM

> A Cassano guard lights a cigarette…

Then hears a soft clink.

> He looks down — a dagger, Nakamura-forged, embedded in a crate beside him.

> Before he can yell — he's gone.

> From the shadows:

Takani warriors in surgical strike formation.

No words. Just precision.

> Explosives detonate.

The factory is swallowed in a chain-reaction of fire and steel.

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🎬 FINAL CUT BACK – Bar, Now Empty

Takani's Private Room – 2:03 AM

> The camera returns to the now-empty bar.

Two glasses. One still sweating.

A single cherry blossom petal falls into the drink.

A symbol of fleeting peace.

Macta Compound – Rooftop, Overlooking City

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> Rain continues to fall.

The lights from Sebastian's burning warehouse glow faintly in the distance.

From a rooftop, Kairo Macta watches — hands in his pockets, hood over his head.

> He sips cold coffee from a tin mug, eyes half-lidded.

Alone.

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Kairo (inner monologue, bitter but calm):

> "Let the kings burn each other down...

They never even looked at us twice."

> "We've been laughed at, pitied, ignored…

But ghosts aren't loud.

They're patient."

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> He turns to head back inside —

down to a dim room lined with paper maps, intel folders, and security camera feeds.

One monitor shows Cassano's exploded firearms lab.

Another shows a Takani assassin vanishing into a sewer.

> And in the center of the table:

a black folder marked only with a sigil — a rose pierced with a needle.

The symbol of Ghost.

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Kairo (low voice):

> "They're too busy throwing fire at each other…

No one sees the blade waiting in the smoke."

> He sets the cup down.

Turns off the lights.

Locks the door.

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> The camera pulls back — revealing Macta's compound from above.

*Simple. Quiet.

But beneath the surface…

watching everything.

Cassano Estate – Vincent's Private Study

🕰️ 4:03 AM

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> Vincent sits in the silence of his study.

The distant sound of sirens hums under a news report of the latest bombings.

> In front of him: a single curved dagger — unmistakably Nakamura-forged, elegant and ancient.

> He runs his fingers along the blade — eyes calm, but calculating.

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Vincent (low voice):

> "This blade isn't Takani alone…"

"No… that edge… that silence…"

"Nakamura steel."

> He leans back in his leather chair, exhales a trail of smoke.

Vincent (smirking, thinking):

> "So after all these years...

She still insists to behave."

"Hmmm…"

> He turns to the family war map on the wall —

red lines, black pins, blood-marked zones.

He draws a thin black line connecting Takani and Nakamura, circling it once.

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Vincent (cold, quiet):

> "An alliance born in discipline...

Not desperation."

> He writes one word beneath the circle:

> Then walks away.

No alarms.

No noise.

Just plans forming… behind his eyes.

Sebastian Family Estate – Underground War Room

🕰️ 3:45 AM

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> Alarms are ringing.

A massive tactical screen flashes red:

"WAREHOUSE DESTROYED."

"TEAM EPSILON – MISSING."

> Guards shout, runners panic, and in the center:

Alexander Sebastian, drenched in rage.

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Alexander (slamming fists on table):

> "This is Takani! This is their work—WHO ELSE USES DAMN BLADES LIKE THAT?!"

Greg (nervous):

> "Sir, we… we don't have confirmed proof—"

Alexander (snaps):

> "F*CK PROOF! My men are dead.

That's all the confirmation I need!"

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> He pulls open a drawer —

Inside: photos of past Takani strikes… and one unknown dagger pulled from a corpse.

He throws them across the table.

Alexander (breathing heavy):

> "We're being boxed in… someone's pulling strings."

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> Behind him, a shadowed advisor speaks low:

Advisor (subtle):

> "Sir, there's… chatter about the Nakamura clan moving, but…

they haven't claimed anything."

Alexander (growling):

> "Nakamura…?

They've been quiet for too long.

No clan stays silent without reason…"

> The camera lingers on his eyes — wide, paranoid —

he's cracking.

Takani District – Inner Courtyard

> Morning mist covers the garden.

Sensue Takani walks in silence — practicing sword strokes under cherry blossoms.

Discipline in motion. Breathing steady.

> Suddenly — three gunshots echo from the trees.

Bullets slice through leaves, one grazing his shoulder.

> He rolls, slides behind stone cover — eyes calm, not panicked.

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Takani Guard (offscreen):

> "AMBUSH! Protect the master!"

Sensue (calm, bleeding, gripping sword):

> "Cowards… shooting through leaves."

> Two masked men in tactical gear breach the fence.

> But before they strike again — Sensue lunges.

One clean slash.

One head rolls.

The second man runs.

Sensue lets him go.

Sensue (low, breathing hard):

> "Let the blood trail carry the message."

> He wipes the blade on a leaf.

Stands again.

Bleeding… but composed.

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🕰️ Same Day — 7:09 AM

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SCENE 2: Attempted Assassination – Ejami Nakamura

Nakamura District – Tea House Garden

> Ejami sits in a quiet garden, dressed in white.

She pours tea for herself, breathing in jasmine.

Behind her — a child monk walks toward her.

> But something's wrong.

The child trips — and a silver throwing knife misses Ejami's throat by inches, embedding into a tree trunk.

> Without flinching, Ejami pulls her blade — a concealed tanto — and spins behind the child monk, revealing…

> A Sebastian operative, in disguise.

> A struggle — sharp, clean.

She doesn't scream.

She doesn't run.

One stab — below the ribs.

He drops.

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Ejami (breathing calmly):

> "You should've worn real shoes.

Monks don't wear imported leather."

> She flicks the blood off her blade with grace.

Wipes her hands with the napkin she was using to serve tea.

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🎬 CUT TO – BOTH OPERATIVES (Final Shot)

Sebastian HQ – Same Night

> Two black body bags dumped at the edge of the Sebastian turf.

Inside: the failed assassins.

> On top of the bags: a pair of cherry blossom petals

and a torn piece of monk robe… soaked in blood.

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