Bone-Shattering Blade

A remote mountain village, full of intrigue and hidden currents; a defiant boy from the mountains; a dangerous journey drenched in blood... and a chronicle of time that someone tried to conceal!

One day, the idle troublemaker who had caused mischief all over the village suddenly disappeared. Gradually, the villagers began to feel that something was missing. The village had become far too quiet.

That headache of a boy who had stirred up trouble every day did not seem so annoying after all.

A few more years passed. People who happened to pass through the village would sometimes talk about the boy.

Some said he had gotten into trouble out in the world and was being hunted by many people. Some said he had killed six top soldiers single-handedly in the Middle East. Others said he went to the Siberian Sea and killed so many mercenaries they dared not show their faces...

Then one day, the boy plotted the shocking "Tribe Extermination Calamity," and the whole world was in an uproar... More and more people began to denounce him!

Later, the village fool, who had always been most at odds with him, went around fighting anyone who cursed him. The old scholar, who had been mild-mannered all his life, stood in the street and cursed people to their faces...

He said, "That stubborn, disobedient bastard may be a good-for-nothing, but nobody else gets to curse him..."

The day that bone-shattering knife, mottled with rust, was returned to the village, the village chief, now over seventy, took it with trembling hands and tears in his eyes. Choking up, he asked, "Has my disobedient boy come home?"

The only answer was two crooked little gold-plated characters carved into the handle.

"No Regrets!"

In the sunlight, they shone so brightly that everyone had to shut their eyes...!