Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Oda Nobunaga was in her room decorated with luxurious things, and in front of her were two twin sisters with orange hair and blue eyes looking nervously at Nobunaga.

Her goal from now on is to get people she trusts to fulfill her desire for the future.

First to conquer Owari and then to extend his rule and unify Japan in his name.

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"Do you want to learn how to forge?"

It was the question of a well-muscled man to three little 6-year-olds.

"Yes!"

It was said by the three children with childlike emotion.

"You are 6 years old, the three of you. Plus, they're too small for me to teach him how to forge."

The three grumpy children snorted.

"Okay. Brother, come!"

Another man of equal muscularity had approached the tatami room where he saw, a little confused, as to why his brother had called him.

"Uncle?"

"Dad?"

"Nothing bad happened to Senji and my daughters, right?"

He waved his hands to signal that nothing bad had happened.

"It's something else. They want to learn how to forge."

He raised an eyebrow. "They are too young to practice that profession and also to teach them."

"I feel the same way. That's why I called you."

"Ah?"

"You'll be their coach. As we know, we need to have good strength, grip, and balance for our craft. As well as a good view. So train them."

"Strength, grip and balance?"

They were said by the children.

"Grab the hammer, Senji."

Senji, an innocent child, grabbed the hammer given to him by his father. Only to end up unbalancing and falling to the ground.

"You don't have enough strength to hold the hammer or lift it. And your legs gave way to the weight of the hammer, throwing the rest of your body out of balance."

Senji pouted at that.

"So... which means the grip that Dad spoke of."

He scratched his neck a little. "Grip would be the same as strength. Since it would be the strength of the forearm not to drop the burning metal when it is grabbed by the metal tweezers. Who knows, you can drop that red-hot metal on someone."

"That's scary, Dad!"

"If you're right."

His father's eyes lost their brilliance.

Off to the side, his uncle unconsciously turned his head so as not to see his brother.

"Hana, Himari, Senji. Let's go, they'll get the training right now to strengthen their body."

"Yes!"

The three children said excitedly.

That was how it took a while for the brothers to see their children grow.

"This new generation looks promising."

His brother snorted. "Don't say that stupidity. Our blood is stained with that God. Someday we're going to get karma for his blood."

"I guess you're right, brother."

No sooner said than done, those words were fulfilled.

The karma of that cursed blood was present.

Where Senji, Hana, and Himari saw the dead bodies of their parents in a pitched battle of Oda Nobuhide and Saito Dosan.

A confrontation that had nothing to do with them.

They watched their loved ones and most important ones of their lives die.

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"Cerberus... three-headed dog..." Nobunaga became desperate and ended up messing up his hair. "I have no idea what it says!" he finished throwing the pieces of paper he had in his hand away from her. "That old man who said he came from Europe left me these papers with their contents in his language! I don't understand a damn!"

He threw himself onto the mat, extending his arms to the sky.

"Damn old man, next time, give it to my language!"

Blow

The faint knock of the door that belonged to his room caught his attention.

"Who?"

"Senji Muramasa."

"Oh! Come in!"

Nobunaga's mood changed to a happy one.

Entering his room, he was a new Senji. All bathed and new clean clothes, although it was a simple dark blue yukata.

"You don't look bad!"

Nobunaga held his fingers in a picture watching Senji.

Senji just nodded at his words.

"Now come, sit in front of me! Let's start the ritual!"

"Ritual?"

Senji asked, confused.

"Yes!"

Nobunaga got up to go to a wooden shelf where several bottles could be seen. The bottle Nobunaga had grabbed was sake. Senji had seen his father and uncle getting drunk, so he couldn't mistake sake for anything else.

Nobunaga carried the sake along with two small porcelain glasses in the center of the two.

"It's called sakazuki. Although the way to do this ceremony is in front of an altar. So I'm going to make the sakazuki in my own way."

Nobunaga handed the sake to Senji.

"You must pour me the sake and then I'll do the same for you."

Senji nodded with the flow.

He poured the sake into the porcelain glass to Nobunaga. And Nobunaga did the same by serving the sake to Senji.

"What is the purpose of this ceremony?"

"Loyalty. After you've drunk our sake you're swearing allegiance to me."

"Um..."

Senji grabbed the glass of sake, bringing it to the level of his chest.

"Can I order something?"

Nobunaga, who was about to drink the sake, stopped to look intently at Senji.

He brought his missing hand to his chin to think about the thing.

"Since you still didn't complain about this, why not. I will fulfill your whim."

"You can free my cousins from prison."

"Prison? Oh... I see, so you were captured with other relatives. Of course, because I was going to deny that. Besides, it sounds good to have more of the Muramasa Clan as my minions."

Nobunaga left the sake on the floor. Senji did the same.

"Then let's go quickly for them, we'll all do the ceremony!"

Senji followed Nobunaga who was in good spirits.

[Prison]

"Hello returned dog!"

Nobunaga greeted the guard, taunting him. He could only show his discontent.

"Is Nobunaga-sama going to release anyone else?"

"Just because I'm happy, I'll tell you! His relatives will become my servants!"

"Didn't he take two twin sisters as his servants as well, Nobunaga-sama?"

"Yes! But don't worry, a few more pairs won't hurt!"

That said. Nobunaga and Senji went inside to look for his relatives.

Passing by that gloomy place that was only illuminated by the little light of the torches hanging on the wall.

Nobunaga gave Senji a signal to lead the way. He nodded.

They had arrived at the same place where Nobunaga took Senji out. The only difference was that the cell was winged.

All the children had a gloomy aura. As well as a lack of good nutrition.

"Hana, Himari."

Senji said loudly. Where you could see two twin girls approaching the steel bars.

They had long black hair extending to the middle of their backs. The dull golden eyes stared hopefully at Senji that he would get him out of that gloomy place.

Senji had a slight smile.

Nobunaga seeing this, came to the conclusion that there was no one else looking for Senji.

So he motioned for the guard to open the cell and take those two girls out.

He barely opened the door and the two girls ran over hugging Senji tightly, almost leaving him breathless.

The guard closed the cell and then began to leave.

Nobunaga clapped enough to interrupt the meeting of the three of them.

"Then they talk about whatever they need to talk about. Now let's go back to my room to finish the sakazuki."

Senji reluctantly accepted Nobunaga's orders.

"Let's go."

"If Senji-nii says so, we'll go without throwing a tantrum."

"The only one throwing a tantrum is you, Hana."

"Himari, you!"

The so-called Hana began to stretch Himari's cheeks. Where Himari also began to pull Hana's cheeks.

Blow

Senji gave a light blow to the twins' heads.

"Ouch."

"Because you did!"

Hana complained to Senji.

"Stop. We have to go quickly."

Senji moved forward, not caring about Hana's complaints. The twins only reluctantly followed Senji.

Nobunaga glared angrily at the three who intruded into his world without having obeyed his orders.

[Nobunaga's Room]

Having reached the room, Nobunaga took out two porcelain glasses for the twins.

"The only kinship I see from the three of you is your golden eyes. Senji's hair is red." Nobunaga said as he poured the sake into the twins' glasses. "You twins have black hair which is common."

"Our father and Senji-nii's father have red hair. Our black hair is our mother's... Because of an unfortunate situation... He's not with us right now."

Himari responded, trying to speak as calmly as possible without breaking down in tears.

"Something very unfortunate." Himari's emotions affected Nobunaga. "But as I told Senji. From now on, you will have a more comfortable life, you will not need to worry about many things. You must only obey my orders."

With that said, Nobunaga raised his porcelain glass with sake.

"From now on you will swear allegiance to me by drinking this sake with me."

Senji was the first to raise his glass.

Hana and Himari followed suit.

"Right now we don't have anything. You can say that Oda Nobunaga is our savior, but she was also the beginning of our problem." Senji thought.

The three of the Muramasa Clan drank the sake at the same time that Nobunaga drank his glass.

"In the future you will work under the name of Cerberus to accomplish my goal."

"May I ask, What is Nobunaga-sama's goal?"

Senji asked.

"Conquering Owari will be the beginning of my plan. So prepare your mind, for you will soil your hands with human blood, follow me."

Nobunaga got up to leave his room where he was followed by Senji, Hana, and Himari.

"Conquer Owari? This little girl is crazy."

"Please, Hana. It closes its beak when we're close to it."

"Seriously, Hana. You can't do better to talk at any other time than near Nobunaga-sama."

"Tch, you two."

They stopped their talk to concentrate better on another topic.

[Dojo]

Arriving at the dojo which is isolated anywhere other than inside the castle where the Oda Clan lived.

They saw many muscular men training with wooden weapons.

A brown man who was over 180 cm tall approached the four of them.

"Nobunaga-sama, I didn't expect to see you in this place."

"Neither do I. But I came here for an important matter."

"What would that important matter be?"

"The three of them."

Nobunaga pointed to Senji, Hana, and Himari.

"That, kids?"

"Yes. They will be my personal servants, so train them and train them to be the best of the best for me."

With that said, Nobunaga began to retreat without caring for the feelings of the three Muramasa.

Sigh. "Always doing his thing," said the chestnut. "Although I would not like to force some children, I must obey Nobunaga-sama's orders. You will take care of and protect Nobunaga-sama from now on with your lives. So we start training now."

Crack!

Senji's head was buried in the ground. The toned man had brought his hand to Senji's head without telling him what he was going to do.

"Hey! That was very treacherous of you!"

Hana let her emotions control her. He approached quickly with a fist extended, hoping to connect with the brown man's face.

Himari followed a step back from her sister silently to give the man a surprise kick.

To no one's surprise, he easily dodged and countered Hana with a small hand movement that deflected Hana's balance so that she fell and kissed the ground.

"Hmm... there's so much to teach, AAAAAAHHHH!"

A strong kick had connected his crotch.

"Receive your karma for being treacherous to Senji-nii."

Himari said with a frown.

All the men who had seen the fight covered their crotches with a mark of pain on their faces, although they were not the ones who received Himari's kick.

"Damn brat! That was a low blow!"

"You also did the... same... Senji-nii... are you alright?"

No one moved, they saw how Senji stood up with his head down where his red hair covered his face in such a way hindering anyone from seeing any facial expression on Senji's face.

"Listen, son. I'll tell you the truth about the Muramasa Clan and why our swords are cursed. All of this goes back many years, when the blood of our ancestors was mixed with that of a God. This God, at birth, inadvertently ended his mother's life due to her fiery body, though it was not his true fault. However, the father's obsessive love for his wife led him to blame his own son, who, barely born, was murdered by his own father as a result of unleashed karma. The blood of this God fell upon a Clan that was just beginning to take shape, staining it and corrupting the essence of the entire lineage."

"The members of this Clan, marked by impure blood, initially underestimated the gravity of the situation. But over time, everything changed drastically. The weapons they forged became lethal, and those who did not have the blood of the Clan lost control, leading them to commit suicide or heinous acts. Even swords, once symbols of courage, became instruments of destruction, inducing enemies to end their own lives."

"Over time, however, a new generation emerged, learning to master the malevolent emotions that permeated the swords. They managed to control the dark energies around them, ensuring that those wielding them did not lose their minds."

"Despite this, the infamous fame of the Muramasa Clan's cursed swords persists to this day. The past cannot be erased, my son. You must remember that one day, that cursed blood might awaken in you. You must learn to control those emotions, or else you will be the one to fall under their influence."

Senji saw how his father's eyes changed, they were black with white pupils.

His small body was petrified with fear, it was the first time his father had seen him like this.

"Senji-nii... It's scary."

Hana's body began to tremble when she saw Senji's eyes.

He had never seen his cousin with those eyes, even his uncle or father didn't have those eyes.

It was the first time I had seen him.

"Himari, stay away from Senji-nii!"

He screamed for fear that something would happen to him.

Himari listened to what his sister said, he wouldn't inquire because his sister told him that. He only obeyed his order.

He quickly walked away from that place and then saw why his sister told him to stay away.

Crack!

Senji kicked that brown man into the air where he was buried outside the dojo.

"Oh god..."

It was the murmur of Himari and Hana.

Seeing how dangerous Senji became.

"QUICKLY GRAB YOUR GUNS, YOU HAVE TO STOP THAT BRAT!"

There were about 40 men who were training in the dojo. They grabbed their wooden weapons, it was the only thing they could use as weapons and fight with Senji.

All of them surrounded Senji without leaving him a gap for him to escape.

They jumped in, Senji calmly watching them all. He grabbed a wooden sword and made a supernatural move.

With the wooden sword he managed to injure all 40 men.

Several sounds of falling bodies as well as blood dripping all over the place.

A gruesome scene for the twins who looked like their cousin with a single short movement at all of them.

Poof!

Senji's body also fell to the ground after he had exerted such a surreal movement.

The twins, still afraid, decided to approach Senji. Seeing that he was not a danger, they approached and opened their eyelids to see that his eyes returned to normal.

Sigh. "You have to take him to rest. On top of that..." Himari looked at all the bodies that were lying there, although they were not literally cut in half, even so, he found a horrible wound that caused them to lose a lot of blood. "You have to call someone to tend to their wounds."

Hana nodded to her sister's statement.

So they began to retreat and told a servant they met on the way that there are many wounded in the dojo and need to be taken care of.

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[Footnote]

This is the appearance of Hana Muramasa (left) and Himari Muramasa (right) (Senji Muramasa's cousins).

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Other Note:

If you watched the last chapter (Arc 2: Chapter 2) of Fate: Gremory (English Version) the version of this Senji Muramasa appears at 20 years old, it will only be a small confrontation that Mikoto Gremory and Basara Toujo have with this Muramasa family of this story.

End of my statement.