Narrator:
"Not every wound bleeds.
Some are the kind only the Embraced can see… and feel."
[SCENE 1 – KAI CARRIES THE WOUNDED GIRL]
Blood-soaked dirt. Trees burning in the distance.
Kai kneels beside a collapsed Vein user—body trembling, skin glowing faintly.
Kai (breathing heavily):
"You're still alive…"
He picks her up. Her light flickers like a dying flame.
[SCENE 2 – A SHELTER IN RUINS]
Days pass. Rain on broken rooftops. The girl lies bandaged, unconscious.
Kai watches over her silently. Then—
Her eyes flicker open.
Vein girl:
"…Who… are you?"
Kai:
"The one who found you. And kept you breathing."
She tries to sit up but winces.
Kai:
"You're safe. But I need answers."
[SCENE 3 – NAME REVEALED]
She leans back, exhausted.
Vein girl:
"…My name is Noa."
Kai nods.
Kai:
"Noa. Got it."
She stares at the flame of a candle nearby.
Noa:
"You wanna know who I am?"
Kai:
"I already do."
She looks confused.
Kai:
"When I touched you… I saw everything."
[SCENE 4 – NOA'S BACKSTORY]
As she speaks, we see it in haunting visuals.A closet, pitch-black, barely large enough to sit in. Young Noa shaking, tears on her face. Voices screaming outside: "This is your fault!"
"You always make things worse!"
Days pass in silence. Until—
A light glows in her hands.
Seraph (voice):
"You endured. That terror is now your beacon."
She pushes the closet open with radiant light bursting behind her.
Back to present—
Noa (softly):
"I was always afraid of the dark. But I stayed. I endured. That's what made me Vein."
[SCENE 5 – THE ATTACK]
Kai:
"Then what happened to you out there?"
Noa looks down.
Noa:
"It was supposed to be a Vein gathering. We were meeting someone claiming to have 'balanced both paths.'
But it was a trap."
[FLASHBACK: THE ATTACK]
Vein users gathered, hopeful.
Then—screams. Blood.
A man stitched in black and white stepped from the dark. One arm glowing gold, the other leaking pitch-black void.
Every Vein user's power short-circuited. Some
Noa tried to blind him with light—but he walked through it, emotionless.
She ran.
[SCENE 6 – KAI'S VISION: REI'S BACKSTORY]
Kai touches her hand gently. A spark—
His pupils glow white.
Suddenly—
[VISION – A BROKEN CHILDHOOD]
A boy in a crumbling house.
His father, a Vein user, preaching strength through suffering.
His mother, a Hollow user, offering silence and sacrifice.
Both pulling him apart.
The boy screams:
"I don't want to choose!"
He tries to give and endure at once. The world rejects it.
His body contorts. Vein marks clash with Hollow scars.
He sews his limbs with golden thread and black wire to keep himself together.
Rei (narrating):
"I tried to become Embraced.
But instead… I broke."