A burning city , a peaceful life,

Laughter of teenagers , cries of pain

A beautiful smile of a young girl, a bautiful smile of a young woman

Mountain of corpses belonging to honorable men

Sitting on top of them a youth clad in silver

All those bodies

But just one sentence to hear

What is honor that we hold so dear?..

Pain...

Pain of flesh

Pain of losing

Pain of weakness

I woke up to see to familiar faces.

Me on my left and me on my right but one being much older.

Young side of me screams! Fight it ! Get stronger...

The other part shakes his head

"No, stay behind the walls where its safe and comfortable.

No! screams the first one. Fight , fight for your family, get stronger for them , never give up ! You are more then that ! it says fiercly.

Other part looks conflicted first, then vanishes without a word.

I will get stronger ! So it won't happen again.

I opened my eyes, mothers teary face comes in my vision,she hugs me relentlesly saying how she was worried and how happy she was now that I woke up.She says she is proud of me for protecting my sister like a hero from the fairy tales.I turned my head left and saw my sister sleeping in the bed near me.Then I noticed my father and how he looked at me .Warm and full of joy,When he spoke to me his voice was filled with pride and I was too shocked to hear what he said but caught the words of proud and happy.

After the incident my sister closed herself in her room for days, sleeping after exhausting herself from cyrying.

It's all my fault for not being there faster , not being stronger , for getting beat up.

I couldn't protect her this time but it won't happen again,I will get stronger for her sake, for the weak ones and for myself.

While I was having this conversation in my head at somewhere far away in the free cities of Cartel black clouds were gathering.

Time skip for 2 years(Mc is 11.5)

Clang clang clangclang

Ahhh! a cry of pain came from one of the 10 guards facing against a youth,While the swords were clashing the youths wavy silver hair and well toned body for his age was gathering the attention of the ladies and his emerald green eyes was able to captivate anyone who looks at them.

Even while he was facing against ten guards older than him his face showed no signs of fear or fatigue only concentration.

He passed through their ranks like a gust of wind , he was smaller then them but that didn't mean he was weaker,where he lacked strength he made up for it with his skill.He skillfully parried and attacked when he saw a oppening quickly disarming 3 more of his opponents.

6 more to go

a 9 year old girl with brown hair and green eyes cheered from the sides, behind her was a bear like man with imposing aura.

The youth danced around the field with moves fluid like water. He side stepped an another swing and parried parried a coming strike.One he parried threw a punch at him and the yout caught it, using the mans of weight he made him fly towarrd one of his allies.

Thump "Agh shit " The two man crashed each other and fell down.He stood above them "Yield?" They nodded their heads "We yied !"

4 more to go

Dodging a swing aimed at his shoulders followed by a overhead swing he saw it coming and quickly countered with a thrust to the mans neck.

3 left

2 of them made a formless assault while the 3rd one just stayed there.

He dispatched them rather easily and turned his gaze to the last one

The man shrugged and dropped his sword "I yield !"

He turned his back to him.

After 4 steps he suddenly ducked down barely able to evade the sword that passed over his head.

"William you should always make sure your oppenent is truly uncapable of fighting, since you made a lethal mistake this win goes to the guars."

William looked sheepish and scratched his neck.