Drifters

At the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, samurai Toyohisa Shimazu stays behind to cover his comrades’ retreat. Mortally wounded, he abruptly wakes in a pristine, modern corridor lined with countless doors, watched over by a silent man named Murasaki. Before he can make sense of it, Toyohisa is drawn through one of the doors and cast into a world far removed from his own.

That land teems with fantastical races and with legendary fighters pulled from different periods of history—people who should have died long ago. Toyohisa soon joins forces with the feared Nobunaga Oda and the famed archer Yoichi Suketaka Nasu, only to find a continent strained by political turmoil. Branded “Drifters,” they’re thrust into a brutal conflict against the “Ends,” the architects behind the Orte Empire who seek to wipe the Drifters out. As the Ends’ influence swells and the Empire tightens its persecution of elves and other demihumans, Toyohisa and his unlikely allies are forced into a new kind of war—one that will decide who truly claims the world.