[cracked]: Shinobumonogatari

He cut away his fear of blood. Then his love for his wife. Then the sound of rain on a tin roof.

Now he was a perfect weapon. He felt nothing. He commanded a thousand hollow-eyed soldiers who had each lost one specific grief. They never deserted. They never wept. shinobumonogatari

She sat.

Kirei caught it before it touched the ground. She did not stab him. She pressed the flat of the blade against his chest, where a heart still beat beneath the scars of amputation. He cut away his fear of blood

“What do you want me to do?” Kirei asked. Now he was a perfect weapon

She left the Heart Cutter embedded in the floor of the inner sanctum. She left Hotaru alive, curled around his stolen grief like a man holding a child he had buried long ago.