The crier paused.
“But... what?” A guy asked.
“What happened to his lover?” A girl standing in the back asked.
The crier looked around at the crowd and just shook his head sadly. Many sighs and quiet whimpers were heard.
"Their battle had been so fierce that its echo had reached the Palace and stopped the heart of the hero’s beloved." Some people were crying now, and it wasn't just the girls. “The hero wanted to kill the beast, but, at that moment, he became enlightened. He now understood all the secrets of this world. He threw away his sword, for he no longer needed a weapon. He’d reached the fourth stage of the sword skills.”
“There’s only three,” the soldier who was the closest to the cells of the circus grumbled.
“Most people think so, yes. The first is ‘One with the Sword’ when
