If I had to tell my tale it wouldn't even start at Quna or even when I started to fight, it would be when I started to enjoy life that my life took a turn for the worse. That was when I was eight years old, my life was not the best but it was better than most people where I lived. My parents lived an honest living or so I thought when I found out they were receiving bribes but that was later in life. I didn't notice any of that as a child perhaps it was for the best. Laughable I was a bully as a kid, looking down the people who were in poverty, that doesn't sound like me but that was only after just one incident that change my perspective in life. It was only after that I bullied a kid that I was on the tail end of a bully fiasco. I felt the same pain as the kid that I was bullying and to change so much doesn't seem likely but just from that experience I knew that I am the same wherever I live in the world.
I began to look up to the bullied kids that stood their grounds and even befriended them. They were the very foundation of my lifestyle and I began to fight for what should be right. Though in a different perspective I wasn't much of help. It would only be after that my parents were assassinated. I barely manage to survive due to my newly gathered allies aiding me. I failed them just as much and they died knowing that there was someone who were higher that cared about them.
Several months would go by and with the remaining amount of money I had I spent it on a set of information for a powerful swordsman in the countryside. Was I seeking power for revenge, or was I seeking to better myself for the worst to come? Whatever it was, I am sure it was to survive. Teigus were mysterious items and to obtain one, one would be able to obliterate large forces effortlessly. I thought otherwise when I found my master who I trained under for two years and eventually succeeding his legacy by the time it reached my tenth birthday. Obtaining the Tension Blade and the Equinox scabbard I then left my master after he died and began to travel across the land seeking for something.
Battles after battles I would fight and fight more powerful enemies and soon began to get bored with the basic level of troops and went straight for the higher ranks. It was when I faced against a Teigu user that I felt a thrill to fight them head on. But to challenge them on fair and equal footing seems unlikely. As I had fled from them and some had fled from me. Some had goals they wish to achieve, some just fought for the sake of fighting. I seemingly then found my own kind of a Teigu. One that would allow me to test a skill of a Teigu user base on skills alone, not on the powers of the Teigu. On several occasions I would find the thrill of fighting a Teigu user pointless and even fruitless if I couldn't get stronger, or couldn't be bested. What did I seek? Did I not have a goal to achieve in my life?
Several years had gone by and I met Quna as a kid. I made too much breads for that fateful day and she was the first person I came across who was hungry beyond all possibility. Was it destiny? Was that encounter a start of something new? I wouldn't know but I would know this that I helped her. Feeding her and nursing her back to health just before the raid that was going to happen. A bandit raid, I had no interest in such tribal manner but the only thing that drew me to that town was that the bandit leader had a Teigu. Though it would seem that the battle with the Teigu user was proven falsely as I felt nothing. The idea of success didn't even register in my head as I slew the Teigu user before tossing the Teigu to another person. Then the idea came to me as I did that, I could train a Teigu user to fight me, though that seem skeptical I wouldn't doubt that battles would be any fun if I couldn't be bested at least once.
Formulating ideas how I could be defeated and further honing my skills. I would be able to utilize my Teigu to the best of my knowledge, so that I would not need to think hard about it when the time comes. Then after two years of doing so I went traveling again this time I heard about the Empire having Teigu users. This proven to be interesting as these fighters were exceptional fighters. Only that they had some incompetent users that could be better utilized by a different person most certainly. It was then that I entered a village that was under siege by the Empire. A Teigu user was definitely here as I see bodies lying everywhere, too quick to be just an infantry march, as people would panic and run the moment an attack of a scale of this village size approached. I would also see the burning of the village by a small unit but I didn't care I sifted through the village quickly and found my Teigu user that I would hunt. It turns out this Teigu user was just as useless of a fighter as being overly arrogant and obnoxious that I killed him with my fully achieved Tension Blade. Seeking the Teigu so to distribute again I meet Quna once more and this time she was holding the Teigu that the man I killed used. Quna would faint, probably from the stress or even the pressure of holding a Teigu since it requires a strong will to wield them. But seemingly I took her with me. She woke up on the way out of the village and I showed her village being burned. I didn't feel any sort of contempt from Quna and so I decided to introduce myself, Quna did not have a name so I name her Quna just randomly with no particular interest about it. But I felt an urge of something about her. Even at my age I was only four years older than her. How many years would it take for her to even beat me? As she is a possible Teigu user of the weapon she picked up. I kept the sword and dart-hook rope close to me as I then begin to teach her the basic languages and writing of the Empire and taught her hand to hand martial arts. I taught her the basics of what Martial Arts can be, though I taught her and show her techniques, when it came to sparring I was absolutely merciless there was no time to mess around and be easy for training purposes. Because there are always battles to be at the time. Quna was a quick learner I have to admit as it only took her about 3-4 months to learn the absolute basics in hand to hand martial arts. I then stop the training and handed her the Teigu weapon set of the dart-hook and sword and told her to see what she can do with it at the moment. Watching her for an entire hour of Quna swinging the sword around I was even more amaze how she tangled herself up at the end. Going to her I then started to teach her the basics of swordsmanship and with that she grasp the basics quickly. But still having difficulty as she needed practical combat experience. So I 'naturally' wandered onto a battlefield just as the thought came to mind and I started to pin-point Teigu users in the front. Selecting her opponents wisely only those of her level I gave her the first taste of fighting and killing a person in actual combat. Only then I leave and take her out of combat when she got tired and soon she was able to handle herself on the battlefield.
We then traveled to the village that she started from the moment we set off on this journey, she was devastated by the insane smell that the village reeked. It smelled so bad but I continued onward, eventually piling all the dead bodies up I then set it on fire and started to burn the rotting corpses of the villagers. I then went to find Quna to find her collapse and unconscious most likely from the heavily stinky rotten decay in the room. I then brought those bodies to the fire as well and the fire continue to burn. Getting away from the noxious smell Quna then wakes up and I stop to watch the fire burn. We sat there for several days as the fire didn't die out until then and finally the great blaze ended and Quna stood up and awaited for me to move on.
I was truly baffled when I told her she could leave me at any time but she stayed with me and to be honest I felt it was fun in its own way to travel as a group. Eventually I then meet up with some more people who survive from a raid or battle or even an attack by the empire or a new group by the Revolutionary army. I would ask those people what they want to do before they die. Some of them wanted to just die, others wanted to have revenge, then there were two people who had a different answer from what I gave them. Luke and Chiion were the two who gave me a different answer to my questions and I decided to save them. The group was small but I wouldn't say we were the weakest group. Nobody dare to challenge this mercenary group, we work for hire and will complete the jobs we are given. I still go and kill some Teigu users now and again but with a twist.
Support from Chiion I am able to really play any scenario at my whim one on one and group battles are all possible at her tactics. With Luke and Quna I able to fight without worry that the enemies won't join me between the Teigu user and myself. I decided against to give them Teigus because I saved them there is no reason for me to kill them again for having Teigus. Quna still doesn't know the weapon she wields is a Teigu but I could tell if I told her she would learn quickly how to use it.
I feel a strong excitement that when Quna finds out, she will challenge me, but for now there is the Empire army and the Revolutionary army. A battle is brewing behind the scenes and also on the frontline between these two armies. From this standpoint I know these two forces have Teigu users of great abilities. I can't wait to try and fight them, but how is the question and when I will fight, might be soon.