On daybreak in the countryside of the country asliya there is a village at the bottom of the hill.


    The village is not very small to be off the map. There are at least 20 houses with 4 small shops to purchase daily needs.


    On the other side of the hill though…


    A wounded man with a child of 11 years old in one hand, sword in another running toward the top of a hill.


    ''I have to protect him, he is our last hope.''


    The man has a wound spots all over his body like gunshot wounds.


    "Over there! don’t run you bastard" shouted a warrior with a dagger in hand.


    ''Ah, they found me!''


    "Ok bro it will be hard for you but I have to run faster"


    “Ok”


    The man started to run faster with the wound.


    At the moment on top of the hill, there is a small wooden house with one living room with 4 different rooms connected by one single living room with a small passage to go out,


    in the house were an old couple living with their grandchild


    Grandpa sitting in the living room


    "Grandpa, grandpa, let’s have breakfast, I am hungry."


    "Hoho, child. you shouldn’t rush this much for your age"


    The child appears to be the age of 8. and the couple in their late 50s


    The grandpa had a small beard with hairband in his forehead, wrinkles cheeks and long hair as his face. He was claim and didn''t show much emotion.


    Grandma had long hair with no white in her eye, wrinkled forehead and wore a reading glass. She was a women who knows what she is doing.


    Grandson had a small eye hair long enough to cover his fore head and a mole in lower cheeks


    "Wow Grandma this potato stew is very tasty"


    "Hehe, I know what I do, hehe" Grandma left a giggle.


    At that moment both the couple who were smiling had a confused face


    ‘Hmm what’s this, why the warrior of Asliya all the way here?''


    Asliya is the country they live in, being former warriors of the country they know the presence of the army.


    As soon the food was finished


    "Hiroto, let''s play hide and seek" old man spoke with a smiley face


    "Yay!, I will hide this time"


    "Ok make sure you don’t move around this time"


    A warrior with a purple color dress comes to the gate of the house


    "I do not came here to fight, please hear me out"


    "What is it??"


    “There is a flame technique user in these hills, if you spot him please call us"


    "How would we recognize this flame user?"


    "He is a man with lightning technique wounds and carrying a child."


    At that moment from another side of the house came a scream


    "We found him!!!!!!"


    ........


    Hiroto, the child l, was not peace type and always did something.


    In the room in which Hiroto went to play H&S, the bed faced toward the window and on the outside of the window was a bench. so the child escaping from the room was inevitable.


    "let''s see if I went around the house and find Grandpa first, he would be surprised."


    ..............


    Before the warriors found the man,


    The man with the sword after running for more than 30 min saw a small house and decided to take cover in it and to keep this child safe.


    "ok I will put you down here"


    he put the child inside a big wooden box made for putting small farming tools and said


    "Until I don''t call you, don''t move ok??"


    "Ok," the child had a serious look on his face.


    "We found him!!!!!!!"


    At that moment 5 warriors came toward the man


    "Where is the child??"


    "I wonder, where did I put him?"


    at that moment Hiroto came out of the window from inside and now facing the warrior by the side of this man


    all warriors and the man’s eye falls on Hiroto


    "ah there he is, attack"


    "wait he is not......."


    The warrior starts to attack both the man and Hiroto with swords and a dagger.


    One said “lighting technique"


    The other 4 said “water technique"


    The man tried to protect Hiroto.


    But these warriors attacked very fast and with nothing to defend themselves with except a sword in the man''s right hand, both of them got bad blows, The lighting technique was used for the man.


    The man used a flame technique to defend themselves


    “Flame technique, revolving fire”


    The sword made a revolving motion and flame also made a whirlpool. But it didn''t stop all the attack


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    The man’s left arm and Hiroto''s right leg got cut up.


    "ahh!!!!!!"


    "ow ow!!!!!!!!"


    The old couple who saw it from afar screamed while running toward the guard


    "Why are you attacking our Hiroto?? Has Asliya trained monsters like you??? Can''t you differentiate between a child and a criminal??"


    The leader who was behind the group of 5 spoke


    "It looks like the Tanaka family has sided with the flame.”


    "What are you saying? The Tanaka family has been hunting flame users for almost 50 years?”


    "that doesn’t mean you can’t change after all these years."


    "warriors, kill them all"


    unable to hide his anger Grandpa took out a blade that is used to cut grass and Grandma took out a dagger


    At that moment the one who told about the man in front of their house tried to take out his sword and attack the couples


    Grandma hold his and strike his neck and cut it off completely


    The other warriors facing the man then used their best techniques all at once


    The 4 water users said “Water technique, fifth form,Swift flow”


    And the last one said “lightning technique, forth form, Bolt”


    The water warriors made multiple slashes to attack both groups, hiroto, The wounded man and the couple.


    The lightning warrior tried to make a direct blow to the solar plexus of the wounded man. He tried to block as much as he could but the slashes got him


    Grandpa used flame technique to counter the water warriors “flame technique, hell flame” the sword touched the ground after being swung in the circle and flame from the ground arose and made a wall of fire blocking the attack.


    But grandpa wasn''t able to protect his grandchild.


    Because of that hiroto and the man got deep slashes, fatal ones, with the internal injury and bleeding.


    "I will kill you all!!!!!!!!!!" said Grandma and rushed toward the lighting user and the leader


    the grandma who rushed toward the lighting warrior who was going to use”lightning technique,Current” the grandma used"Lighting technique redirect"


    the attack that was supposed to have series of attack towards the stomach area ,toward the grandma was thrown back at the warrior.


    Grandpa then used his strongest technique "flame technique, solar flame”


    the leader who now was preparing to defend said after looking at flame.


    "yes I knew, The Tanaka family has sided with Flame"


    Grandma then pierces the leader’s throat and uses the dagger in the leader''s chest multiple times.


    Grandpas attack hit the warrior


    the water warrior had no chance all of their limbs and heads were slashed apart from their body


    "hi, hi, HIROTO!!!!" the boy was already way past healing and was dying


    So was the wounded man; they both didn’t have much time to live.


    "Man, what is your name??, what is your last wish?" asked Grandpa


    Grandpa''s name was Hakuru Tanaka. Being a former warrior he wasn’t the last wish asking type but the man tried to protect Hiroto, who he didn’t know anything about the couples.


    "I I I am Haruto Agni. I want the ch child there on that wo wooden box to be taught by you and your wife as your o o own child. I kn know it iss too much to ask but please help us" with that Haruto died


    At that time Grandma picked up Hiroto from the ground and placed his head on her lap. grandma name was Namino tanaka


    "I I wish I could eat all your cooking. I love my grandparents very much" Hiroto smiled and his slime faded as his life left his body. with that Hiroto died


    "Now what will we do? Hiroto died, we killed the country’s warriors. we are the criminals of this country" says Namino with hiroto’s head still on her lap.


    Hakuru ignore the question And went toward the basket box and opened it


    “Aren''t you little quiet for a kid”


    “WHO ARE YOU, WHERE IS MY BRO???”


    “your bro died now, I will take care of you now”


    “I don''t trust you”


    “ I don''t trust you either, because of you we lost our hiroto, look over there”


    The boy went speechless


    And hakuru answer namino


    “No we still aren''t criminals yet we can frame this kid''s bro for this mess. Just that we have to say this kid is hiroto. Good thing is that they only know hiroto stays with us , but don''t know what he looks like.


    But, I don''t know what to do next, I don''t know. Let''s wait until morning and talk the way through. For now call the recovery team to take the bodies of their.”


    “Now do you understand my plan boy??”


    “Yes I do”


    Hakuru then picked up the kid and placed him near Haruto to say the kid''s farewell.


    By evening a medical/recovery team came by the house and took a report of everything.


    "I assure you nothing like this happen from now on, this man and child were the last flame technique users"


    "oh ok."


    "Are you ok Tanaka-sama?"


    "yes I am fine it’s just it’s been so long since have seen this much blood"


    "Now you will not have to."


    after the recovery team left


    The kid had traumatized eye, short eyebrows and a curly hair. He was white and had just worn a tank top and half pants only


    Next day


    Hakuru asked the child


    "What is your name? Where are you from?"


    my name is Haruke Agni. I am from doit"


    "What is your name and your wife''s?" Asked Haruke.


    “My name is Hakuru Tanaka and her name is Namino Tanaka”


    Namino was coming out of her room to prepare dinner. She started sobbing since her Hiroto would always help a little to prepare it.


    “So why is that man trying to protect you?”


    “he is my brother. Our parents were killed by some hunters"


    “Oh, I see. So what will you do now??”said hakuru


    “I really don''t know. I don''t know if you will hand me back to them”


    The kid was traumatized until now, well only haruto was someone who protect haruke as his brother. So he was not trusting these old couples very well.


    “Very well, I swear under the name of my late grandson, Hiroto, I will not hand you back to those warriors and I will keep you safe until a certain age. My wife will also follow this swear”


    “I am very happy to hear that.”tears were filled in the eye of haruke


    “So what if I say, I will teach you all basic defensive techniques, will you train under me??”


    “Yes, I will, I will give my best.”


    “But it won''t be for free, you will have to do chores and hard work to earn my teachings”


    “Yes I will do that”


    “Now do you know any sword techniques”


    “No, I don''t, I haven''t taken any sword training.”


    “Very good then. Now first this will be your routine everyday.


    you need to clean this eating table, sweep the floor, climb a tree to pick fruits for breakfast, and do whatever namino tells you to do”


    “Ok”


    Haruke thought ‘looks like I have made a mistake’


    The food was then served


    3 bowls on a square table, when Haruke ate it he screamed“UMAI, This is tasty”


    With that Namino started crying in remembrance of Hiroto.


    …………..


    After hakuru said to fetch fruit from a tree after breakfast to Haruke, after he left. Namino approach him and asked


    “Isn''t this cruel to make a child do those things to do??, I used to understand how you though but now I am completely gone.”


    “Yes, I think, I am being cruel. But I need to know if he will give up. If he proves himself, I will not make him do the chores. But if I look the other way we are getting old, I found that while fighting those guards, we will need a maid soon to take care for us, so for now the one who will be around us is Haruke. Let me test him for a year and if he still doesn''t give up I will teach him as a divine elemental master.”


    So for haruke to learn the techniques it was just not give up and keep moving forward.


    ……………


    Haruke did everything. Namino made him do laundry, clean dish and other various work.


    he used to do most of the work by helping namino since he didn''t know how to do most of the things.


    The day of Haruke started with him collecting fruits, after collecting, sweeping the floor, eating breakfast, washing dishes, doing the laundry, making foods dry in the sun, and helping hakuru to carry logs for firewood. And prepare dinner and sleep


    He started to finish his chores faster and more perfectly.


    He was not feeling tired as before and was working properly.


    By the time he was able to be at this point half a year had passed


    "Hmm I think I need to test him a little" hakuru though.


    hakuru made him do additional physical exercise and made haruke tired until his last movement


    But he can''t give his full time in exercise only, he still have to do the chores and during free time of hakuru, do physical exercise in front of him.


    ‘ok, I have seriously made a mistake, taking their condition. But I will not give up yet.'' haruke thought.


    After the hard 6 month of chores and exercise a year passed after he arrived at this mountain.


    On the anniversary of his arrival he started his regular morning but when he was ready to do his exercise hakuru asked


    “So it''s the anniversary of your arrival. Congratulations. So, can you continue like this until next year”


    “Yes I can”


    ''no I can''t. Please save me somebody .’


    “Hmm, I like your resolution. Ok then from tomorrow your training starts. You don''t have to do chores. But the bigger ones like laundry and buying resources, you still have to complete them, rest is not compulsory. The everyday laundry can be done once a week. for today your free”


    ‘ah finally. It''s over. ’


    Haruke then went to buy something to eat at the village on the bottom of the hill


    On a wooden sign on the side of the gravel road ‘haru village’


    In one of the shop was a bakery and next to the bakery was a cafe in which there was a newspaper distributor. But the news paper would be from 1-2 days old by the time it arrives in this village


    “Uncle hamu, can I get a loaf of bread”


    “Coming up”


    ‘ah the air is sure good. It is chilling here than at home’


    A stranger talking with other stranger with a newspaper in hand “ look at this the toshigo family are again in top business in the country”


    ‘toshigo? Let me see’


    “Can I read your newspaper uncle hamu?”


    “Go ahead”


    The front newspaper article read ‘ toshigo family again are in the most profitable company’


    And a photo of the head of toshigo.


    Tobure toshigo


    And behind was a man with a tattoo on the neck, of snake spriling a trident


    “Hey uncle, can I borrow this paper for today?”


    “No problem, it''s not of today anyway, Here is your order, and it will be 20 asli”


    “ok 19 20 , here , Thanks bye uncle”


    “Bye”


    Haruke climbed up the hill


    Hakuru was sitting in the sun outside the house. Just sitting, not doing anything else.


    And haruke asked about the tattoo


    “Grandpa, what is this tattoo, do you recognize it?”


    “Yes It is a mark for toshigo family to understand that this person is servent and can be used for any reason, hm what''s this, Tobure has grown this much??.


    “Do you know him? “


    “Ya he used to be with my son all the time”


    “Oh, well I didn''t ask before but where is your son??”


    “It isn''t matter for you to enter”


    “Ok”


    “Rest today, tomorrow it will be your training be prepared”


    “Ok I will be”


    And with that haruke’s training begins and he managed to earn the trust of Tanaka''s to teach their techniques but not enough to know what happened to their son.


    But why did he changed his name before going to the city?????