About 15 years later, king Sakuragi died and then Kigashi Hirakima took over the kingdom as its new king. During his reign the problem of crime and continuous violence dwindled and we ushered into a new era of peace and prosperity. By that time, the seven of us already had families and were blessed by the gods that presided over the different techniques. King Kigashi named us as the seven feudal lords which gave us full power to rule against the seven villages in the Usuki kingdom. I was the Lord of Shima maki, Ishikari and Akira, the capital city. All of which thrived with gold, a strong group of warriors, a good trade route and best of all educated and hard working citizens. Over time, we all made improvements on all our fiefdoms and peace reigned through out the kingdom.
Never the less, the Usuki kingdom's peace was short lived. After 4 years of peace, a group of soldiers who had made it there goal to completely destroy the kingdom for over 500 years. They were the Osazuki. They were the complete opposites of the Usuki as they made use of what seemed like black magic instead of the normal techniques. And to make matters worse they all had the same clan powers as us, the Usuki and they always find a way to comeback 20 years after being completely wiped out.
As such, war broke out in the Usuki kingdom. The war lasted for about a year. It was a very bloody war as about half of the Usuki kingdom had been killed. And unfortunately, king Kigashi Hirakima and rest of the heroes that defended the kingdom during the last were said to have been killed by Osazuki forces during the war. And some how, After the war, even though he was married, it was announced by some of the highest officials of the kingdom that he didn't have heir.
After some months without a king, the king's heir emerged from nowhere. It was his brother Takehiro Hirakima whom, as I was told, had been on a journey outside the kingdom in search of new land and other kingdoms. On the day he was to begin his reign as the new king he pledged in front all the generals, lords and citizens to improve upon what his late brother Kigashi Hirakima had already put in place in order to continue the kingdoms days of peace and finish the kingdom's post-war recovery projects.
Never the less, it was all a lie. The recovery projects had continued as planned but it all came at a cost. The blood, sweat and tears of the people. The people suffered from hunger and starvation because of the lack of food and poverty as we the feudal lords had to do as the king commanded. As was expected the people began to hate us and they began branding us as evil. We couldn't blame them as the situation they were in had caused them to do so.
After months of enduring their complaints, the repair and reconstruction of the kingdom was finally complete. In fact, the kingdom looked in better shape than it did before. The suffering the villagers had to go through were finally over. Or so we thought.…