Among the peaceful villages and lush mountain forests of Ionia, paper shadow artist Kaden is famous for the magical ink and light and shadow creations that flow from his fingertips. The paper shadow stories he weaves are dreamlike, but unexpectedly attract the most dangerous audience - the black magician Imoras who is obsessed with the eternal beauty of the puppets. Kaden was forcibly taken away to a gloomy old castle and became a prisoner. Imoryus forced him to use an evil magic ink to tear apart the soul fragments of innocent people and imprison them in paper shadows, creating twisted and powerful "living puppets". In desperate servitude, Kaden was forced to become the executor of dark rituals and witnessed the monsters he created taking lives. However, the artist's soul never truly surrenders. Deep in the core of every puppet that was forced to complete, he quietly carved secret runes of resistance. Hatred and skill are forged in despair, and while Imoryus is obsessed with his latest "masterpiece," Kaden finally waits for that moment - he manipulates his most perfect puppet and tears the tyrannical puppet master into pieces. The old castle was reduced to ruins in the roar of collapse. Kaden walked out with ink stains soaked in sin all over his body. The Ionian sunshine shone dazzlingly on him. The future was uncertain. Only the mark deep in his soul and the unyielding whisper from the core of the puppet followed him like a shadow.
