the dances, despite still holding her doubts in the belief of the Four Lords, uses her dances to rather praise and thank the new clan that accepted her.

seeing them as proper successors to the ones she originally trained. But her care is the same as she sees most of humanity.

She prefers not to engage unless something is worth her attention.

as they were on the front lines.

Over the following centuries, the governments of demons and humans came to the agreement that humans could hunt down rogue demons who entered the human realm and kill unless necessary. The same would be for rogue human hunters.

The modern hunter Aki looks on ⬇️

from this, but these teachings would remain well after her first self-exile and in her second.

These new line of mages who focused on both unarmed combat, bladed combat and magic combat had a better chance to survive conflict, but still had the highest amount of deaths in a single battle

across Asahi for several decades, using the periods of interwar that were known as the False Peace Days.

To many of her own students she slowly began introducing what she learned, even inviting many of the masters she had learned with. Very few accepted these teachings. Little would come ⬇️

to survive, humans prevented and forbid hunting down demons, especially scouts during the warring periods. Additionally, mages believed unarmed combat wasn’t useful and only escalated ones death. In an effort to counter this, Aki underwent combat training with the martial arts masters located ⬇️

have been clear she had no interest. It was clear. Celfo herself had closed everything away following her ordeals.

But now, Emera is grateful. She would not take it back, and if she would adhere to her tribes beliefs that the Sky Spirits chose Celfo for her, then it’s a belief she would accept.