Wakasagi

Dragonfire is said to purify the worthy and incinerate the false, but for Wakasagi, it did something else entirely. During the ritual tempering alongside the great Ryu-senshi, the flames didn't just forge their spirit; they cracked it open. The nobles of Waterfall City see a decorated hunter, their Dragonslayer Blade a testament to their prowess. They don’t see how Wakasagi’s eyes are permanently filled with stars from another sky, or how their mouth is frozen in the shape of a gasp from a vision only they witnessed in the inferno. The blade on their back never grows cold. It hums with a low thrumming only they can feel, a resonance not of victory, but of a terrible question. What truth did the dragons know that was burned into Wakasagi's soul?