Seiran Den (The Indigo Legend) is Nakago's story. This light novel portrays Nakago's tragic past to his rise in the Kutou army, and parcially tells about Tenkou, and this is the last light novel.
Story Outline
Abused roundly by both his own people and the Kutou soldiers who assault his mother, Nakago has to live with the fact his uncontrolled power and it's implications brought about the death of not only the woman he loved most but also, at a later point, his best friend who, in a happier life time, he might have married. At this point his soul seems to have died inside him because he can't even bring himself to kill himself, as if punishing himself for what he's done by making his life continue. His drive is revenge and hate from the heroine , and he seems to feel no emotion towards anyone or anything, enduring sexual abuse at the hands of the Kutou emperor and sacrificing anyone who gets in his way. He dreams of destroying Kutou and bringing the whole kingdom to its knees for the crimes committed against him and his family, his main comfort seeming to be his faith in the evil demon god Tenkou . Even his own father is more than a little afraid of him. Despite his freezing over of emotion, Nakago's saving of Soi as a young man does indicate that he hasn't completely lost his heart and soul - as if he sees in her at that moment his mother or his friend being abused by the Kutou guards. Soi's portrayal in this story is strong as well, and a much clearer picture of her as the desperate prostitute trying to work out of her situation and escape the drudgery and pain of her life as such.
Prolouge
"Arise…"
An old man's deep voice trembled in the tense air in the darkness.
"Arise…"
After the leader's voice, the voices of the other villagers continued and then, the women’s voices echoed. And finally, the thin voices of the young boys and girls were added.
The voices of the whole tribe of 200 continued to sound as one. "Arise! Our lord!" And then, in the once windless darkness, the trees began to sway, and the tribe, clothed in black, kneeled by the lake, which was starting to form small waves.
The boy tightly squeezed his mother’s hand. His teeth were chattering.
He should arrive any minute now!
The shivering boy, who had been behind his mother as if to hide himself, was gently brought in front of his mother. The mother turned to her frightened child and nodded silently. "Come, look!" The mother and child, slightly separated from the others, tightly clasped hands; they had waited for this moment.
As if answering the voices calling to their lord, the wind and waves and storms began to move furiously. Like the sudden sounding of an alarm bell - the boy's breathing became irregular, and a cold sweat formed all over his body.
"Arise! Arise! Tenkou-sama!!!"
His mother, noticing her son's sudden illness, peered anxiously at his face as she knelt. Above the pitch-black lake, it seemed like an enormous shadow had formed. The wind and the waves stopped immediately. The boy opened his eyes wide in shock. The instant his eyes met with the huge, pale blue eyes shining out of the enormous shadow, he lost consciousness.