Suguruko

In Waterfall City, they say the quietest eddies pull the hardest. Suguruko was always quiet. While other trainees practiced sword forms in the main plaza, Suguruko haunted the lower docks, listening to the talk of fishers and the whispers of travelers. The senior guards saw only a skulker, one lacking the stature for a true Guardian's armor. They were wrong. A plot to poison the city's aqueducts was not discovered by grand patrols, but through a dozen overheard conversations Suguruko pieced together. They stopped the traitors without drawing a blade, presenting the evidence just as Shujin visited the pale stone temple. The ancient teacher saw not a skulker, but a mind that guarded the city from threats unseen. That unsettling grin of theirs? It is the look of someone who knows every secret the rushing water tries to drown out.