Lament of the Cradle

I remember the day everyone died. I remember the smell of blood, the violet sky, the faces of the comrades I couldn't save. I remember Takumi's smile as he told me to live. That's why this message shouldn't exist. A year after the war that destroyed Sector Eleven, Rei Kazama is still drowning in the same nightmare, still wearing the dog tags of the dead, still pretending he can be an ordinary student at Waldstein Academy. Then, in the dead of night, a cipher only his unit knew arrives on his p