Chapter 10

• It was dark... a starless and moonless night. Screams could be heard from all directions. Screams from people I had lived with for years, as if they were family. In front of me lay a corpse... slashed open with a cross on its stomach. Blood… blood everywhere. I heard screams and voices. They were looking for someone, but I didn't understand what or who.
• "Granddad... please wake up. Don't leave me alone."
• He did not answer. He was dead and the body was cold. The only family I knew. He was a cruel man, cold as ice when it came to training me. He punished me harshly when I made a mistake, but he also rewarded me when I did everything right. I had killed for him, hundreds of people whose names I didn't even know. Even if it was a full moon and he used the seal. It was our destiny... our task. It was the only way to live up to the name Ishimaru. But it all ended that night.