The Scream

This is Zudaeshi — the Harmonarch of Harmura.

She’s ruled for half a century with beauty, brilliance, and cruelty sharpened like a blade. She keeps her court in gilded cages, chained with wine and fear, their loyalty bought with honey and terror.

But tonight, the mask cracks. Tonight, she’s not the perfect ruler draped in silk. She’s just a woman screaming on a velvet couch because the man she thought she owned — the last Sanctum Master left free — chose someone else. Not another ruler. Not another god-touched power. Just a human. Soft, mortal, insignificant — and more than Zudaeshi could ever be.

The horror isn’t her heartbreak. The horror is what that heartbreak unleashes. Because when Zudaeshi screams, whole kingdoms tremble and the people she owns remember she doesn’t break alone. She drags everyone down with her.

Breaking Out is the story of what happens when the monster behind the crown decides love is betrayal — and betrayal must be repaid in blood.