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Chapter 1:
She was an exceptionally intelligent 17-year old civilian from an urban city who had just graduated the academy when she realized that there were, quite possibly, secret villages in the east where covert operatives, known as ninjas, were hired to execute the orders of whomever hired them. And did she mention that they happened to defy all the rules that were applied to the natural world?
Yuna shook her head in bafflement and smiled at the ridiculousness of it all when she looked at the screen in front of her. Secret villages? Ridiculous. Sure, villages existed and modern technology really wasn't that widespread and heavily depended on like it could have potentially become, according to some analysts and scientists, but secret villages with ninjas who could walk on water and summon entities that fought for them? And not to mention talking entities? For heaven's sake, who devoted their time into secretly publishing a journal on this kooky egg's conspiracy theory.
According to the theory, a man named Hitorito Kanade had supposedly crossed the oceans on one of those rare fleets 50 years ago and had traveled extensively into the land where he conversed with civilians that spoke to him about mysterious magical men and women with the ability to cast magic oriental spells on normal individuals and had special traits or genes that, bolstered with the affects of chakra, were able to wield supernatural powers that devastated the mundane world. And chakra...it sounded like some strange force or aura that was the equivalent of figurative life energy but was only possessed by ninjas, or shinobi, as they liked to call it.
Sigh. I have to stop reading conspiracy theories even though they're really interesting. I have to study. She yawned and rubbed her head with a frown and a wrinkle etched into her forehead. Her reading and homework was extensive enough for her to develop headaches and cut short her studying time. After Yuna had graduated, she had planned to work in the government of her city of Haedan and draft policies with other cities and neighboring counties. There wasn't much for her to worry about besides trade tariffs, and land disagreements between some farmers at the borders of each city, and the occasional skirmish that broke out. But recently, Yuna had realized a glaring hole in some accounts of government officials concerning crime and homicide rates. People were being killed. In the most horrific and brutal, but strange ways possible. It supposedly had been going on for centuries. Weird dissappearances and murders of prominent influential daimyo's, priests, and lords seemed to be quite common but barely mentioned by anyone except official state recordings that Yuna happened to pass by when she cleaned out the records that were getting moldy in the underground storage room of the city building. Doing a little research online, she had discovered several laughable conspiracy theories that all spoke of the ninjas and secret villages as the reason for the murders. Never trust the Airwave, she thought.
Yuna got up stiffly from the chair, almost knocked down her stack of textbooks with her elbow, and shuffled to bed. As she was about to turn of the lights, she thought to herself: I've never visited the east. Maybe I should... I'll get a good look around and see whats the actual cause of these disappearances.
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