Thrown from a quiet life running a dojo to the grassy edge of a world he's never heard of, Souichi never expected his retirement to involve monsters, ancient tongues, or a sword that shouldn't work. In this new world, magic is spoken—words shaped into power, at the cost of one's own voice. Souichi has no magic, no incantations, nothing but thirty years of sword forms etched into his bones. By all accounts, his blade should be useless against the creatures that stalk this land. And yet it cuts.
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