Character Quotes — Fushimi Blade
"Now that I have recalled the light, I can no longer turn my back on the darkness."
[Act 1: Forbidden Technique Aftermath]
In the underground sword mound of the old Dongyun district, the remaining sword tattoo seals have crumbled completely.
Fushimi Blade stood amidst the debris, his left hand covering his chest. Blood was still wet. That was the price for activating the "Former Style."
He had successfully awakened the preconscious carrier of the Forbidden Styles, Heaven's Break, but he had also attracted the Gray Belt Sequence's deeper sensory system.
Late at night the following day, a high-level interventionist known as "Gray Belt - Scourge Limit" appeared on the outskirts of Dong Yun.
The opponent didn't say much but simply used a "Gray Devouring Talisman" to devour a small building in the northern district of Dongyun.
Fushimi sensed it through the air and understood.
He had been labeled a dangerous individual about to master the ability to cut karma.
This meant that his fate would never return to normal.
[Act 2 — Tendo's Question]
Meanwhile, in the late-night training hall of the Swordsmanship Department, Ryugaiba:
Tendo Kyouichi barged in and slammed his fist on the wooden sword-training pillar:
"Why did you touch that thing? You shouldn't have gone any closer to that path!"
Fushimi Blade stood in the shadows and whispered in response:
"Because I know that if you continue down that path, you're going to lose too many people."
Kyouichi clenched his fists and shook his head violently.
"So you're going to carry the 'eraser' label yourself? Do you know what that means?"
Fushimi simply turned away, leaving behind a sentence:
"You are the Keeper of the Sword, and I am the Finisher of the Sword. We are not interchangeable."
The two did not speak again that night.
However, the lingering intent of the sword in the air pushed the limits of those who had broken the style, and the scabbards of the entire martial arts training hall resonated.
[Act III: Echoes of the Black Domain]
Early the next day, Fushimi Blade enters self-training mode.
Through a psychic link, he reconnects with the remnants of his memories of being chosen by the forbidden spell.
There, he saw his thirteen-year-old self standing behind "that nameless predecessor," watching a single sword cut down the enemy.
He heard the man say:
"This world doesn't need people like me, but it does need 'this sword' once in a while."
Fushimi slowly opened his eyes, and his surroundings had changed from the Sword Graveyard to the edge of the Black Domain Blockade on the northern side of the Eastern Cloud.
Beside him, a blurry figure appeared — the self-will of the "Heavenly Remnant Break."
The voice followed him like a shadow:
"Are you willing to become a true Severer? Become the Final Blade of Karma?"
Fushimi looked at his long, cracked sword bone in his right hand and whispered,
"... "I won't. But I will."
[Act IV — The Sword's Decision]
The Fushimi Blade returned to the Sword Art Department, leaving a letter in the moonlight.
Instead of formally resigning from his position as vice minister, he places the sword spirit nameplate on Tendo Kyouichi's practice rack.
The letter contained only one sentence:
"If I lose control, use that sword of yours and cut me down."
At that moment, the teenager no longer hesitated.
He decided to step into the gray borders of the Eastern Clouds and proactively confront the Gray Belt-Bane Limit, eliminating his opponent before the final Heavenly Disruption was complete.
Not for the sake of sacrifice, but for the sake of returning to the path of return.
And that road leads to Kyouichi.