Chapter 1

Bloodbath Wanderer, literally Blood Daruma's Castaway (血だるま漂流者, Chi daruma hyōryū-sha) is the 1st chapter of the Dai Dark manga series.

Characters

 * Zaha Sanko
 * Shimada Death (cover only)
 * Avakian
 * Hajime Damemaru (cover only)

Summary
The look-out of the junk cartel ship "Kahiya" spots a blood-soaked unconscious teenager floating in space and takes him inside to their captain. Upon inspecting him and finding a package imbued with darkness, the three-headed captain realizes that this boy is Zaha Sanko, who is targeted as supposedly taking his bones will grant you any wish. Hiding this information from everybody else in the crew, he then takes everything from Sanko. He awakens, begging the captain to spare his underwear. The captain takes the package of darkness to his room.

As the captain's fast asleep, the package of darkness unravels into a skeleton person, Avakian. He uses his Flesh of Darkness ability to copy the captains hand and its fingerprints to unlock the door to a freezer storage area, where prisoner corpses are dropped. He finds Sanko frozen so he uses his fire breath on the corpses to warm him up.

Sanko breaks free from the stone shackles with amazing strength, but is still cold. Avakian suggests he put on his Skin of Darkness, which Sanko disguised as underwear, to warm himself up. Avakian tells him that the captain knows who he was. Understanding the situation, Sanko suggests they get "whatever they can". The fire started by Avakian then goes out of hand.