LORD of VERMILION

Tokyo was suddenly assaulted by the Great Collapse! The moment they heard it, everyone in the city fell into a coma. When they awoke, Tokyo was enveloped in a red mist. Though some plotted to escape, not a single person has made it through the red mist alive, and Tokyo has become inaccessible. Tokyo is now a shadowy and inaccessible city from which there is no escape! Five months later, the very last person still in a coma, univeristy student Kamina Chihiro awakens, and curtains rise on the fierce Vermillion legend!

The man who was like a father to the solitary Chihiro transformed into a giant troll before his eyes. Unable to fight properly, when Chihiro is struck by the creature's blade, his eyes glow a deep red, and something begins to awaken inside him! Can the blood staining his hands never be wiped clean? As Chihiro despairs, the mysterious and beautiful Yuri appears before him. The sound of her bells drags Chihiro into an even more unforgiving battle!

Only the chosen warriors known as Vessels of Heroic Blood possess the ability to turn their own blood into weapons known as blood armaments. First Chihiro, then his friend Kotetsu awaken as Vessels of Heroic Blood. And who are these people who keep transforming innocent people into monsters?! The Vessels who awakened one after another throughout the course of a fierce battle are taken to Maldeus Church. Once they arrive, the mysteriuos girl Dux has something to tell them...

If you want to save the world, destroy Tokyo! Chihiro and his friends are bewildered by Dux's unexpected words. However, believing he's destined to destroy everything he comes across, Chihiro ignores the warnings of his friends and smashes his immense power against Tokyo! While Chihiro and Yuri are battling, they're confined within a mysterious extradimensional space. Though they are enemies, Yuri makes a surprising suggestion...!

It's all because of your mother. Chihiro can't stop thinking about what Yuri said to him. Do they have something to do with the lost memories of his childhood? The past Kakihara describes to Chihiro is a heartbreaking tragedy. Inuki desperately tries to save Chihiro as he despairs at his bloody fate. Will they be able to change their destinies? Just when he thinks he's found a glimmer of hope, Inuki is visited by his own terrifying tragedy!

As a mysterious series of murders occur in Tokyo, Inuki goes missing. Chihiro desperately searched for him, but he's informed Inuki is the traitor. Just as Chihiro's not sure what to believe, Yuri appears before him. Though they know they are enemies would must kill one another, they express themselves with words and feel a complicated calmness... Meanwhile, Inuki continues to plunge towards destruction. Chihiro dons his blood armaments in order to save him. What is waiting for him at the end of a fierce battle?!