Chapter 8 – A Blade Named Resolve
Year 5, Month 3 inside the Dimension
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He didn't know who he was.
He stood in a ruined temple, cracked pillars rising like broken teeth around him. The sky overhead was white—too white. No sun. No clouds. No wind.
He looked at his hands.
They were bloodied. Calloused. Familiar.
But he didn't know his name.
Didn't know why he held a sword.
Didn't know why his heart beat like it was waiting for war.
He turned slowly, feet crunching against ash.
A voice echoed from somewhere deeper in the fog.
"Yuu."
He paused.
That word.
It sparked something. A sound. A shape. Pain.
Another voice, deeper—ancient, jagged like rusted chains—whispered:
"You have no name here. You are mine now."
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The Memory-Eater
The air thickened. Fog coiled in like liquid smoke.
The creature emerged from it—massive, skinless, with a hundred arms, each clutching black parchment that flapped in invisible wind. Its head was a maskless void, where teeth whispered in circles.
It had no eyes.
But it watched.
It breathed—and memory vanished.
Yuu gasped.
A face… a girl… pink hair… gone.
He clutched his head, dropping to one knee.
"Who… am I…"
The beast stepped forward.
The Goddess's voice rang out faintly from the edge of the collapsing world.
"That is the Eidol-Eater. It devours thought, emotion, memory. It is not flesh. It is forgetting given form."
Yuu looked up, face pale.
"Then… how do I fight it?"
Her voice echoed like thunder.
"You remember."
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First Clash – Instinct-Only
The Eidol-Eater charged.
Sound warped. Time bent.
It reached him with ten arms at once.
He parried with a blade he didn't recognize.
Steel met magic.
Clang.
He ducked. Slashed. Rolled.
His body moved on its own.
He didn't know the name of the stance—but his knees bent perfectly, his blade followed breath.
He spun through its limbs, slashing at its core.
Black fluid spilled across the stone.
The beast screeched.
It breathed again.
More memory vanished.
He forgot how to speak.
His own name blurred again.
He bled—but he stood.
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Collapse
He swung his blade again. And again.
But his strikes slowed.
The fog deepened.
The beast whispered.
"Let go. It's easier."
He fell to one knee.
His sword flickered—unreal, cracking.
The Goddess's voice returned, harder this time.
"Find your anchor. Or you'll drown."
Anchor?
He closed his eyes.
And felt—
A hand holding his.
A girl laughing.
Another voice—calm, commanding—his own.
"I don't fall. I adapt."
Then—
Fire.
Swords.
Tears.
A kiss under the moon.
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He opened his eyes.
And screamed.
"My name is Yuu Yuhin."
The fog snapped.
The beast reeled.
The sword reformed—longer. Heavier.
Black edge. Silver core. A rune burned across the flat.
Resolve.
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Eclipse Arsenal – Blade Two
He stood tall.
The Eidol-Eater lunged with fifty limbs.
He stepped into the strike.
And moved once.
A full circular arc.
The blade cut through fog, through soul, through silence.
The creature stopped.
Then cracked.
Then burst apart.
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Aftermath – Conversation
He stood, panting.
Blood down his chin. His fingers trembled.
The Goddess landed behind him, silent.
"You remembered."
He didn't turn.
"Only the things that mattered."
She walked beside him.
"That blade… it wasn't forged like Celestial Edge."
"No," he said quietly.
"This one wasn't born from death. It was born from refusal."
"What will you name it?"
He looked at it. Watched the faint silver veins pulse down the hilt.
"Resonance."
She smiled faintly.
"Then your second weapon is complete."
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Chapter Close
Yuu sat in the middle of the battlefield that had no name.
He had remembered.
And because of that… he still existed.
But as he looked at his blade, and the ruined temple around him—
He whispered something only the void could hear.
"I'm not done yet."
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End of Chapter 8 – A Blade Named Resolve
Deaths: 0
New Weapon: Resonance (2nd of the Eclipse Arsenal)
Opponent: Eidol-Eater (S+ Soul-Type Monster)
Combat: Psychological + Physical
Theme: Memory, identity, and instinct-driven survival