Guardian

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>To be human is to hope ... especially when you know you shouldn't</em></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The price for his revenge?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A curse.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Yokai's magic exiled him trapping him in an enchanted forest to suffer immortality alone.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The weight of his solitude increased and his bitterness grew as he realized the only people searching for him weren't coming to help. They only wanted to take Guardian from him-a sword forged and imbued with magic.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>So when a little girl showed up in his forest he feared she was a pawn sent to coax the magic katana from his possession. But she wasn't there for Guardian and for the first time he allowed himself to hope. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He should have known better.</span></p><p></p>