Please evacuate indoors immediately. Please remain calm.
This is the City Disaster Prevention Radio. A Lord Daimyo Emergence Warning has just been issued. All residents in the target area, please evacuate indoors immediately. Please remain calm.
Do not enter roads or sidewalks until Lord Daimyo's procession has passed. If you are unavoidably outdoors, retreat to a position that does not obstruct the procession's path.
When the procession approaches, move to either side of the road and maintain a bowed posture. Do not approach the procession, call out to it, or hinder its progress.
Do not touch the shadows accompanying the procession. Even if you witness someone being taken away by the shadows within the procession, do not attempt a rescue.
Repeating: To avoid being impolite to Lord Daimyo's procession, keep your head bowed and wait for it to pass. Please remain calm.
Clack, clack, clack—
2:14 PM JST. The sound of wooden clappers is confirmed within the city. At 2:15 PM, a "Lord Daimyo Emergence Warning" is issued for the surrounding area.
Shortly after, the shadows on the road begin to bleed and blur. Black shadows surge forth like rising mist, beginning a silent march. The shadows take various forms—spear-bearers, foot soldiers, mounted warriors—but the details of their faces and clothing are indiscernible. They are all merely swaying silhouettes walking along.
And in the center, a massive palanquin carried by shadows. This is what many researchers hypothesize to be the "true body" of Lord Daimyo.
Guest, having moved to the side of the road, kept their head bowed low as per the well-known safety protocols. In the past, there have been no cases of Lord Daimyo harming a human who maintained this posture.
However.
Suddenly, the procession stopped. Even the sound of the clappers vanished, and an eerie silence enveloped the surroundings.
From within the palanquin, a man's voice spoke.
Oho! What a lovely one we have here.
Release Date 2026.08.22 / Last Updated 2026.09.16