Kurai Backstory

Kurai was born in the capital of the Xu Empire, Kimomaki. His father, Ryuzaki was the emperor and his mother, Mei Ling, was a healer that once healed Ryuzaki from a battle. They fell in love and made Kurai who is now the heir of the Xu Empire. Ryuzaki was a kind and understanding emperor but is deadly in battle. He was Kurai's hero and role model. His mother however, was more protective which made Kurai more in the conservatives and shy type. His mother always tells him that friends are nice, but what uses are friends when you can't defend them as well as yourself.

Kurai was training for as long as he remembers, he believes that he started training as soon as he started walking. Kurai grew up to be a gifted archer and focused on long range fighting. His father even got a custom bow designed specifically for him. He continued to train whenever he can as well as studying to becoming the next emperor.

When Kurai was of age, his father enlisted him in the army. His father believed that he should know hard work and sacrifice by joining the army from the bottom ranks and make his way up just as his father made him do. The other soldiers were aware of who he was but was specifically instructed to not treat Kurai differently. His mother was aware of this and was a bit against it but knew that it was what was needed and expected of him. Every now and then his mom would heal and coddle him just for him to get through it easier. This however, didn't really make much difference as it was clear that Kurai was very good at battle and was literally born to do this. He started joining squads for skirmishes against rebels and joined his father for his quests too.

One day, his father came back home from a quest devastated. Kurai thought he has lost. However, Ryuzaki told him that not all battles are fought to win and he has lost something far bigger than any battles. He then asked him to join him to go to a town called Karasu. It was only Ryuzaki and himself that is going. Kurai was confused as to why they weren't going with an army for protection. His father told him that there will be no battle to where they are going but instead for much worst, they are to deliver bad news. Ryuzaki didn't really tell anything else to Kurai other than get his things and come with him. His mother seems to strangely understand exactly what he was talking about and just nods as they leave.

Upon reaching Karasu, everyone in the village recognized who they were and started to bow to Ryuzaki. However, Ryuzaki advised the people that there is no need for that as he treats Karasu with the upmost respect. Everyone then nods and went on with their day. Someone did approach them and told Ryuzaki that he thinks he knows why he's here and points to a house towards the end of town. Ryuzaki thanks him. This is the first time Kurai sees his father in this light.

When they reached the house, they knocked on the door. A humanoid figure opened the door carefully. He was very respectable to Ryuzaki and himself. Ryuzaki took off his gloves and lifted the man's face, he called him Akarui and told him that he doesn't need to bow to him. He then delivers the bad news that this man's father has passed away. Kurai was also shocked by this as he didn't know what the news was. Kurai saw Akarui visibly upset and dark aura started to come out of his body. Kurai was alerted and started to reach for his bow but his father stopped him. The dark aura slowly went away and Akarui just started blankly. Ryuzaki then offers to adopt him to Kimomaki which he eventually accepts.

Kurai was somewhat happy about this because he never had a brother before nor someone he can really call his friend. They bonded really well and talked alot on the way back. They have a lot in common. While travelling back, they were also attacked by bandits but was easily beaten. Kurai saw Akarui using some strange dark magic on his sword and was amazed. He asks Akarui about it and tells him how he was of a Blood Hunter's Bloodline.

Coming back home, his mother welcomed Akarui with open arms and treated him like one of her own. Akarui and Kurai bonded together and trained together a lot. They even earned the nickname "Akuma Brothers" because of how quickly they rose up to the ranks until they became leaders of the Squad 1 and Squad 2 of the army. It was also because they were ruthless and merciless when it came to missions to defeat invaders and rebels.

Years have passed, the Mizayaki clan and it's "High Wizards" has presented their selves to Ryuzaki offering an opportunity to enhance the soldiers but doing experiments on them. There was a couple of demonstrations that was successfully implemented and Ryuzaki was very impressed. Ryuzaki agreed and thus the alliance with Mizayaki was formed.

The Mizayaki at first was very kind to the army, making sure that the experiments were okay and safe and most of the time it was. They then gave a theory of more complicated experiments that they can perform and wanted to perform it on their best soldiers. After long and hard deliberations, Akarui and Kurai agreed to undergo this procedure. They were aware of the difficulty of this process but believe that they can become a lot stronger once successful. The experiments were long and painful. For Kurai it seems that they wanted to enhance his eyes and was performing some transplant on it. Kurai doesn't remember much on what happened as he was mostly put asleep during the procedure.

However one day, he just woke up on a horse with Akarui riding away from Kimomaki. Kurai stops and asks what is going on. After finding out that Mizataki was planning a coup, Kurai wanted to go back to his father. However, at that time a large explosion came from the Emperor's room. With horror and fear taking over the Akuma brother's faces decided to seek help and find out more information about the Mizayaki and what happened.

They make their way south which will eventually lead them to travel to Cazar.