Rakura

When the patrol schedules for The Teikodian Empire changed without warning, Rakura knew their time was up. They had been a simple explorer, mapping the capital's forgotten aqueducts, a task deemed too mundane for imperial notice. But their curiosity led them to a sealed section, and behind it, a laboratory where data was stored not on scrolls, but inside living subjects. An alarm, a struggle, and their world went dark. They awoke with new eyes, cold and mechanical, a repository for all the secrets they had witnessed. That was when the hunter, the relentless mercenary Fuhai, was dispatched to retrieve the Empire's 'property'. The combat pole they once used to test unsteady ground now felt heavy with a different purpose, and the wise beard they'd cultivated was now just a way to hide their face.