Kurani Laylian

Living upon a small set of islands that are carefully maintained to hold steady he didn't have a need to travel like all others of the region, instead being raised within the small group that held within these islands, becoming one of the few children who spent their time learning diplomatic mentalities over purely surviving the islands themselves, as they used a ballista mechanism to move the small shards they possessed, their land protected by magic as he was told

However despite this he would constantly sneak off and find close groups who were passing through and play music for them as they rested and playing with the children as a fox

He did this for months, never noticed, always learning... however he did observe that one person started to show up a lot, although the locations and groups were changing, this one was constantly there

She always locked her eyes with his while he played, almost as if entranced whilst not being in the slightest, swaying with every movement he made, her crimson skin being hard to miss, even in the night as he followed her on occasion, speaking and listening to her own stories

As they grew closer a question did come to their minds, what to do about staying near each other, they couldn't just be meeting on occasion by coincidental paths and having her continue to hunt him down wasn't fair

"Maybe, you could stay with me, I'm sure you could get in if your with me"

She hesitated, looking at the world around her, contemplating her options before looking him in the eyes again and agreeing

As they approached the estate, she quickly began to grow ill, so much so that he put her to bed the moment they got in, when going to alert his elders of this, they explained the so called magic used to protect them was a fatal disease that just happened to not effect them, so they used it for protection

Outraged by the lies he was told and the thoughts of the harm it could have done he rushed to her side and removed her from the building right before setting It ablaze, carving the family crest into the chest of every corpse that he built from holding them back from the start of the fire.

On his way out he collected the snake he had raised from one of the lessons he was given, hoping the giant thing would help them.
Quickly they started to move from island to island, illusory bridges being built for them to travel between the islands, the spells being fuelled by his rage, taking time to tend to her, giving her just a few more days each time.

It took months of travel, she rested on the beasts back as he guided them and tended to her, until her body could take no more, his own will waning as his own reached its limit from his actions in care and travel

He began to assume dillusions were in his vision as a shapeless figure stepped towards them, offering a deal

"I wish for a show... and i believe you may be able to offer... so how about a deal... you are to take a mission for me to have my show... in return I will cure her and set you free of this burden"

Weak and barely holding mind he agreed, the deal is as follows

"You are to use whatever method you can, to have people truly love you... not by magical means... you can use those to assist, but if the true emotion they would feel isn't love, it won't matter

Specifically, to have a total of 99 people love you, why you may be wondering... to break their hearts... if you can cause 99 people to feel broken hearted... I will cure her, however if the same action breaks her heart, I will do this instead, you will be cursed to never stay dead, you will instead spend long times alone in a void feeling all the pain you have caused and each time you return you will be emotionally empty... ill make sure she can't die as well to leave the tragic love story together"

The figure had a dark grin as he agreed again, removing her soul from her body and holding it within the snake for the time, preserving her body in stone, the figure then removed one of the snakes scales and pressed it to Kurani's arm, it slowly melded with the fur and left a heart shape "when it is full, you will have made 99 people to truly love you, the next step would be apparent to you"

"Now, as for where you will begin this adventure, ill be setting you on a boat of settlers, you may choose to where, this boat may give you one or two connections"

He thought for a second and chose what his heart told him to "I want a place that is new... somewhere life is just beginning to set ground... somewhere that there is magic to cause one to love you so I may have them realise from it once it wears of..."

His body fell limp as he awoke on the ship as mentioned, he checked his wrist wanting to know if what he witnessed happened and in seeing the mark knows something happened at the very least

He pulls out his lyre and plays as he waits to meet land, noticing its normal wooden colour has been changed to that of the lands themselves with pink accents and rose red strings