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"I never knew I even had a sister until now," Reed replied, examining the girl who was most likely his half-sister, "Hell, I didn't even know my biological father was still alive until a few days ago." When he got the letter with the King's seal on it, he thought is was a sick joke. Well, he did until his mother decided to tell him who his father really was. Reed told her about the letter and she just frowned, telling him to go as soon as he could. He didn't want to. Why should he follow the whims of a father he had never met? However, his mother begged for him to go and, when she died, he decided he would obey her last wish.

"I think we should just head to the mansion, we can already see it from here, I really don't care to look my best and besides, I'm hungry, the last thing I ate was wild boar," A mkassive, vicious, razor-tusked boar had charged him a few hours ago. A heavy slash from his Guan Dao crushed its way into the boar's ribcage, impaling its heart with its own ribs. His lightning powers made it easy to cook, despite the rain. "So... what's the castle like?" his voice got a little more solemn, "What is this King like?" Was he the type to let his former lover die during invasion was what he wanted to ask but he opted not to.

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I have seen death, there is worse.
Not once more shall I fall prey to the whims of nobility
Consider it your bad luck to have to face off against a master of Mirago-style spearmanship

♦With war comes peace...

...only to be destroyed again♦

"That's an amazing description," Reed said, his voice dripping with sarcasm, "Made even more amazing by the fact that I've never actually seen a castle." He didn't say anything when Rei asked him what he thought they King was like. He didn't know much, all he knew about him was from an impersonal letter and by the fact that the reinforcements promised to Captain Mirago never appeared. Thing of that, he stepped into the mansion with his sister but froze, seeing the deep-red carpet. Images flashed through his mind. The carpet resembled a stream of blood, exactly what Franz looked like after it was razed. The streets were collapsed as the entire town was wiped off the face of the earth. The blood had flowed freely from the corpses and trickled down the streets, literally forming a stream of blood. He dropped his umbrella and closed his eyes, rubbing the bridge of his nose, "Excuse me," he said, taking a deep breath, "I apologize, my name is Glaive Reed, you may just call me Reed." He left out his family name. This was supposed to be a peace meeting, not a place to bring up a massacre. Franz suffered nearly three thousand casualties, considering the town was just barely three thousand people, there were really only six or so survivors, including himself and his mother. Of the sixty soldiers present, only one survived, himself. The Earth Kingdom force of three thousand lost half their number.

"At any rate," he said, tapping his toe on the ground to shake the mud off of his boots, "We should probably find a better place to talk." His entire luggage had consisted of his umbrella, his boots, his shirt, his pants, his scarf and his weapons. They were his best clothes, and by best clothes he meant the only ones that weren't rags. He once had a fancy robe but that had been destroyed along with the rest of Franz. "Or perhaps my sister and myself should clean ourselves off first..."

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I have seen death, there is worse.
Not once more shall I fall prey to the whims of nobility
Consider it your bad luck to have to face off against a master of Mirago-style spearmanship