𝖠 𝖡𝗅𝖺𝖼𝗄 𝖱𝗈𝗌𝖾

Chapter 4

This is surprisingly long, I didn't that much except the ending
I don't own any KNY related
Hope you like it!

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Japan, 18XX

The Kurorozu Family is known for it's long line of 'Prodigies'. From scholars, writers, composers to poets you name it. They are also known for the riches they inherited from their ancestors and they're damn proud of it. Of course they aren't the only ones around with that kind of power. There's the Kosoraku Clan famous for their skilled swordsmen for example.

There are countless others and they all have on thing in common; they're are in constant war with each other.

Not the invade and conquer war, they fight through riches and popularity. Always wanting to be higher than the highest, willing to bring people down for the sake of it heck assassination attempts are being done by the high. Of course they do it discreetly for the sake of their image.

The head of the said family, Kurorozu Shori is no different. With his name literally meaning VICTORY. Shori is an ambitious, one-track mind and an empathetic man. He'll go out of his way to one-up others; they bought a big land he will too; they set-up expensive top notch security; he'll pay an even more expensive one.

Those are just two of the many things he will and can do just to stay at top. And he did all of those behind the tall walls of his enormous estate and made sure no one would know. When he hears the Kosoraku Family announcing a heir, Shori decides he wants one too.

Its traditional that you would have to choose from your own children but he thinks otherwise. The bastard knows that his own doesn't trust him and probably never will. He fears that if one of them becomes the next leader, no one will live up to the expectations he set and fail him.

He turned to his grandchildren instead. Young, stupid, and easy to manipul- guide. Some had just been brought to the world but doesn't matter to him, he'll wait, he's a patient man too.

Now his children are smart as expected and they know that their old man is planning something. Shori always has something up his sleeves, every plan of his always ends in with someone getting buried, no one wanted that. They had enough. They considered leaving, they really did. To let the old man pay and rot for all the things he had done- but they couldn't, not when the future of their own children is at stake.

Then Shori stopped and just kept his mouth shut, no wasting money, no constant nagging, nothing. Just silence. They were thankful for that and thought that maybe, just maybe he's starting to change. So they stayed. And oh boy, they just made the biggest mistake on their lives.

Years later he decided it was time to move. He didn't know that would the last plan he sets in motion.

His first grandchild from his son Masumi was precocious even at the age of 6. He figured that any older will make his mask less conceivable. He took the child to a trip despite Masumi's complains and pleas, he had been hearing rumors of a man-eating creature.

It was fun, they got to bond a little. But the child never got home. The young father's nightmares came true.

It was night time when they were on their way home when suddenly the carriage they were on rocked a little. Shori asked what was that and he was met with silence. He got annoyed and stepped out of the carriage to yell at them. Only to see blood trails.

He froze with wide eyes and stayed still for three solid seconds, at the fourth and fifth he felt pain at his abdomen area and at the sixth second he was at the ground bleeding. He vaguely heard his grandchild's pleas of help and someone yelling Marechi over and over again before he fainted due to blood loss.