[centre] [color=00aeef]Ludwig Von Groveheim Krauste [/color] [/centre]

Japan was never on the list of places he needed to be in before he died. yes he had heard of the majesty of it's landscape and the properties of some of the artefacts and herbs there. Yet, it had never drawn him there. Perhaps it was the rustic nature and the fact that they held such a past of conflict and ever changing culture.

Truth be told he did enjoy the atmosphere, although that didn't change the fact that foreign disease was around him. In any other scenario he would not even come here, he would send out for someone to visit for him. yet here he was, the heir to the Krauste family was here in person. No one else would dare enter this war, the rest of the familyw as convinced it was a death sentence. Hence why he was here. They needed to put him in a situation where he could prove himself or not. if this didn't go well, the family wouldn't have to worry about him anymore. So, success was a must.

In any other scenario, he would have had every thing already planned, every scenario and singularity in his mind would've been added up and  planned for. Everything would have been predetermined. But without any guarantee who he would behold to be his ally...well he couldn;'t decide.

Legs crossed and head in his hands, he sat atop an old chair within an old bar. None of the residents were there anymore, he had booked this place out after his grandfather had paid the owners to find somewhere else to be located. Around him were some hastily set up conical glasses full of liquids and in the middle of the room was the symbols drawn in a dark crimson liquid some would connect to blood, yet Ludwig would say it was a chemical.

[color=00aeef]"Fill Fill Fil.." [/color] he muttered the incantation, eyes wide and set on the floor, beads of sweat on his forehead. he couldn;t afford to mess this one up. Around the room were variations of alcohol, just in case his servant was one who enjoyed the activities of drowning ones sorrows with liquids. 

A mask over his mouth. Ludwig chanted it more and more.  "-Arrive from the ring of deterrence, keeper of the balance!" he called out and watched as the symbols glowed. 

So this was what destiny and ruin looked like.

[@Kyoka]