Kuruno

Kuruno keeps a list of every person in Waterfall City who underestimates them. It is a very long list. To the merchants in the lower plaza and the guards at the pale stone temple, Kuruno is the clumsy noble with ramen perpetually tangled in their hair, their feather cape always catching on doorways. They are a source of harmless amusement. But Shizuka, their student, knows better. The lessons have nothing to do with the katana on Kuruno’s back. Instead, they learn to watch how a crowd parts for a fool, how secrets are spoken freely in front of someone deemed irrelevant. Every stumble is a survey of the ground; every shocked gasp is cover to observe a hidden exchange. The true art Kuruno teaches is invisibility.