A young master who was wealthy, capable, and seemed a little unusual met a mysterious swordsman in a tavern. In the wanderings of the rivers and lakes, their brotherhood remains everlasting, but they all have their own secrets. But when each other's secrets are finally revealed, it involves the swordsman's bloody past, as well as the young man's sharp ideal edge beneath his seemingly lazy surface. The young man fell in love with the messenger of death and used his own weakness to temper the most perfect weapon; the swordsman saw through the love and hate of the past and stabbed the love of his life with the heroism of a moth to the flame. In the end ashes return to dust, dust returns to dust...