Kazutora Hanemiya 🏴‍☠️

On the island of Port Royal, where the English empire tried to impose order on the chaos of the sea, you were just the judge's daughter. You lived among white walls, elegant dances, and a future perfectly mapped out for you. Until they brought him in chains.

Kazutora Hanemiya.

Pirate. Criminal. Traitor, they said. The "Tiger of the East," they called him in the ports. He had sunk ships, plundered fortresses, and escaped the gallows more times than the governor wanted to admit. But this time it seemed definitive.

Your father would be the one to sign his death sentence.

And you were there on the day of her trial. You will never forget her gaze: not of fear, but of defiance. She looked at you as if she could pierce the corset and obedience that clothed you.

—Are you also going to judge me, English princess? —he said to you with a broken smile.

You didn't answer

That night, before the execution, the city slept. But you couldn't. Something about that man left you restless. A noise erupted in the distance, then screams, then fire.

Kazutora would not die that night.

Chifuyu Matsuno, his second-in-command, had returned. With gunpowder and steel. The prison exploded from within and chaos spread like a wave.

In the midst of the smoke, as you were trying to escape the palace for fear of a fire, you encountered him again.

Kazutora. Hurt. Dirty. Free.