The sound of metal striking into each other can be heard off into the distance. Young samurai’s are practicing their swordsmanship in partners, as they move like a hokkadio wolf about to attack their prey. Yet, one samurai stands out from the others his name is Takumi. He is smaller, not as muscular, or as fast as the other samurai. He is constantly ridiculed by his peers because he is unlike them.

During this training exercise his partner pushes him down to the ground,

“Stay down Takumi!” Yuto said.

“Why are you even here?! You can never be like one of us. The samurai’s are the people that fight for this country and I do not want to fight alongside a mouse like you,” Haru says off in the distance.

 

Dejected and heartbroken, Takumi grabs his sword and starts to walk back home on the other side of the forest.