Noise of chairs thrown to the ground, smoke, hot flashes, Eiji did not even have the time to sit up that two unidentified people jumped on him with the intent to kill him; the boy put his hands in front, as if trying to avoid being sliced, but he knew that those katana would’ve cut him in two, no doubt.

At a whisker from Eiji, the katana stopped, while the boy was aware of having his grandfather behind him with a drawn sword in his hand, not even the time to understand what was happening that his grandfather had already sliced up those assailants, making them exhale their last breath.

Eiji was finally able to speak: -Old, what's happening? -, But the elder had no time for unnecessary questions: -what are you still doing in the bed? Get up, the dagger that I told you to keep is not there as an ornament!-

Eiji stood up, continuing to ask: -ok, but what's going on?-

Catching his breath, the elder notified him the situation: -We must escape, they set fire everywhere in the village and are looking for something ... and probably also someone, now run, follow me-, thus the oldman headed to the nearby forest running, taking care of having the boy always behind him.

Eiji still did not understand the situation: -where are we going? –

The elder dismissed him again with some notions without explaining in full: -in the woods to the east there is a shelter, we will be almost sure there. Eiji found himself thinking: almost? He was about to say something when her grandfather suddenly stopped cursing -we are surrounded-.

Eiji was sill dazed from what was happening, he had just escaped from home, the village was on fire, and now his grandfather said that they were surrounded; it made no sense, and looking at the forest,he couldn’t see anyone: -grandpa, there is no one here-.

At that very moment the oldman shouted loudly: -SHOW YOURSELF, I KNOW YOU’RE THERE-

As soon as he finished the sentence, from the surrounding trees came out at least fifteen people, arranged in a circle around them, it was too much for the two of them, understanding that there were even more still hidden, the elder whispered to Eiji: -I’ll keep them occupied, you have to run-.

Eiji however didn’t move: -no way, there are too many of them, I will fight by your side, I still have my dagger-

-I TOLD YOU TO RUN- shouted his grandfather throwing himself against the first enemy and killing him with one hit during the rush, then he got rid of the second thanks to a knife threw in the brief moment that the first assailant took to collapse; and finally began the actual close combat. Eiji was no less, in the end he had been trained in the use of the weapon since childhood, but the enemies were too many, and the boy had never killed anyone, just knocked out, and because of this, he immediately found himself in trouble, because, differently from him, the attackers fought with the intention to kill.

The fight went on until when, backing, Eiji tripped on a root; his fate seemed decided as four swords were about to befall him, with the intent to pierce his heart.

The oldman saw the scene in a corner with one eye, disengaged in a second and appeared in front of Eiji just before the tragedy, too little time for trying to parry with his sword, too many swords and enemies, only one solution.

The swords pierced the body of the elder, the blood began to flow from the wounds; the boy listened to the last words of his grandfather while he was still bending over him: -ru.....n-.

The one who had once considered his entire family fell on Eiji with swords still stuck in the body; those images and those sounds impressed themselves like fire in the mind of the boy, while the assassins take some steps back.

In a moment, Eiji understands what's going on, but he can’t accept it, he don’t want to accept it, so changing position Eiji keeps his oldman from falling, and with his knees in the ground takes his grandfather in his arms, calling: -don’t make jokes, I know that you can’t die from this-

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From behind one of the assailants who had killed his grandfather was slowly approaching him.

Tears began to fall from the eyes of the boy, and his anger start to rise: -you can’t die like this, you know? Don’t you dare!!!!! -; his pain and anger were increasing every second, even while the voice of the reason began to take possession of the boy, the assassin was now behind him.

Damn, it's all my fault, all my fault ...

A male voice came into his mind: -it’s not your fault, look around you-. Eiji did not know why, but he did exactly what the voice had suggested and looked around, while the assailant behind him was loading the fatal blow, to cut his head clean off.

Anger mixed with despair and pain, these feelings seized him, Eiji realized that the murderer of his grandfather were still all there, they had killed his oldman with their weapon, and they were all around him, next to him.

A symbol began to shine on his arm... he would fight, he would kill them, he will kill them all, and would not have any scruples; symbols kept appearing on his body, but he did not mind, he just wanted to see all them dead, his anger was at its peak, his body covered with symbols, the assailant who was about to kill him hesitated, not understanding what was going on .

The time around Eiji had stopped, there was absolute silence in the forest, but the air seemed thicker around Eiji, his dagger was not there, lost somewhere, but he would have killed them with his bare hands, there was no problem ... the same voice as before whispered: -you have the weapons, you just have to look, you have the power, you just need to ask-.

Eiji was now surrounded from a doom of light, when the boy uttered: -I... I want them, I want the weapons, I want the powers-, it was a simple swish brought from the forest, but all the people they could clearly hear the words: -then… I’ll give you them-

At that moment Eiji looked up, his eyes radiated light, his body is full symbols, the air was now gathered around him, at that time the attackers recovered from the surprise, and advanced toward Eiji; in the end, he was kneeling on the ground, wrapped in that strange light, but without weapons, what were they waiting?

The assassins used their katana in order to quickly kill him off, but the tense light acted as barrier, not allowing the blades to touch him, then the light exploded; all the attackers were thrown back, but stopped in mid-air... it was not enough, for Eiji that was not enough, the time had stopped, or so it seemed, Eiji was blinded by the desire for revenge, his gaze froze the blood of the assailants and he spoken: -not so easily-.

Suddenly Eiji found in his hands two twin curved blades of pure energy, he moved, but everything around him was still motionless, and he heard that voice again: -one for the left hand, one for the right hand, we have different powers, you’ll have to understand us and dominate us-; but Eiji did not care, he would have killed everyone in that forest, without exception.

Eiji gripped the two swords of energy in different ways, so that the one in the left hand had the blade facing the sky, like a normal weapon, while the one in his right hand faced the ground; Eiji himself did not know why he was using them that way, but he knew it was so that they had to be kept.

In the end, following his thirst for revenge, Eiji killed all the assassins remained in the forest; when he killed the last, the time went back to normal, and Eiji fell in the darkness.