Number 100

Hunter knew that something was off with him.

Whether it be the looks he's given by older people or how he lacks the one thing a witch takes pride in-magic of his own.

But he didn't expect to find out that he wasn't the first of himself, instead just a shell of someone who was alive many, many years ago.

With the fear of being replaced with a new him, he begins to write a journal. While going to hide it in a place that seemed good, he found 99 other journals, all by past Hunters to have existed.

They were all the same for the first 10 pages, and then they suddenly deviated after the other journals were found.

1 was how he was supposed to be, and on and on came changes that ended all the same until 99.

99 lived longer than every other Hunter and had even gained an apprentice.

He died on his 25th birthday, the last entry speaking of how he knew there would be an attempt on his life by none other than the emperor.

100 swore he would be different, and he realized that in order to do that, he would have to escape from the palace.

What better way to do that than to run away to the human realm with one of the keys that the emperor needed in order to merge the two realms???

And which key person to run away with other than his previous self's apprentice???

Magic-shmagic, let's live out in the woods instead!!!