Death as Sport

For forty-nine years, Zudaeshi’s court has feasted on horror.

The captured 'guests' watch men die slowly for sport, draped in silk and forced to raise their goblets as if cruelty were theater worth applauding. Every laugh, every sip of wine, every forced cheer keeps them safe for one more night and binds them tighter to the monster they pretend to adore.

But this is Breaking Out. And what they’ve learned behind silk curtains and gilded cages is that even the longest performance must end and the final act always begins when the audience least expects it.