So a created an OC based of Kusakabe. The idea is to explore how strong can a sorcerer without a technique become. Would be appreciated if you read and tell me what you think.
Born into a powerful clan without a technique, she spends her days accepting whatever insult thrown her way. "I'm without value", she accepts that for a fact, as obvious as birth and death. However, when she was only 7, her clan was wiped out, helplessly slaughtered, by a demon. But amid what was supposed to be a traumatic sight for a child, she saw it. Unrivaled strength surpasses that of even the all-knowing adults who she believes dictate everything. It made them seem like the insignificant insects that will wither under the slightest touch. In that moment, her world was shattered.
Through all the blood, tattered bodies, screaming and pleading, she found herself reaching toward it, as if mesmerized. By the time it was silence again, she stood right before the demon, looking intently at it with a blank expression. She thought, how lucky it is that this is her final moment. However, the two-faced demon with four arms simply walked away, left her standing there like a soulless doll.
She stood there for along time. By the time she came to aware of the sharp cold and freezing rain biting her translucent skin, she finally understands. And so she started walking. The nearest town is three days away on foot and she is but a child, without warm clothes, food or even knowing where to go, but none of that matters.
Years later, renowned the talk of a certain sorcerer: "Have you heard? It happened again. It was the Fujiwara people this time. All five of them with their head sent back in warping paper!". "The Fujiwara!? This is not the same as that ragtag bunch of bandits! Has she gone mad!?". "She must be! They said the talk was going smoothly until one of them mentioned something about a child of the Suguwara family". "Suguwara? what is that?". "I don't know either, but it ticked her off and then-
A young girl says with mouth still chewing dango: "Sorry about the mess, master!". The smell of iron still lingers in the air and a deep red dyed the ground. Looking at the aftermath, an old man with wrinkly face answered: "Isn't this a bit much? I don't know what you were talking about but still, killing them just for that is...". "It's fine. It's fine. I promise!". *The man still reluctant* "They know who I am and still decided to bring it up. I simply responded the way I should. The way I see it, they were all ready to commit sepuku had I didn't do kill them myself". The girl said that as if a kid explaining the obvious. After that, a short silence ensure before it was broken again: "Don't you worry about the Fujiwara coming after you?". "AH! You reminded me, I muss get going now. They made the effort to send me an invitation after all. It would be rude for me to make them wait. Thanks for the dango, they were delicious!".
"JUST A DAMN SOW WITHOUT A TECHNIQUE!!!!" screamed a dignified man in his 50s with face so red, it looks like all his vessels could just burst at any moment. The servant, still dazed from the punch, try to stand up before another kick was thrown his way, sent him back. "Still, it looks like the rumor that she exterminated the gang of bandits lead by that escape convict is true. We have couldn't confirm the other rumors floating around but they are self-evident at this point" said a young man. "So, she is the real deal?" asked the dignified man, he finally calmed down after hearing the report. "Yes, father". "How does she do it?". "Apparently, she hold the special grade cursed tool New Moon". "That useless thing?" he grew even more frustrated. Special grade cursed tool New Moon is a sword used for ceremonial purposes before it was stolen. Meant to accept the grace of the gods, it can collect and accumulate part of the cursed energy leak out by the user overtime. While the capacity is large, one can't just pour his cursed energy in, so it normally takes about 3 months to fill up by the average sorcerer. The cursed energy accumulated can be freely utilize but once unsheathed, it has to be used up all at once. It's a powerful hidden card but entirely useless as a weapon. In the past month alone, there was at least three major incidents caused by that women plus what just happened to his men. "just how does that failure of the Suguwara clan... furthermore, there shouldn't even be anyone left from that night".
He sit, lost in thought but soon, almost instinctively, noticed something was amiss. He look up, but the place where his son was just a moment ago, now lay a headless corpse. Soon after, a sound of something heavy hitting the floor could be heard. And at the same time, no. Even before that, the man moved. He activated his technique with frightening speed, but the girl remained unmoving. *She's not making a move, does she know about my technique? In that case* "My technique, upon activation, allows me to capture and mirror the actions of individuals within my line of sight. This extends to even their weapon or technique, within the realm of feasibility". Of course, that's not all there is to his technique. The act of capturing an action also allows him to review it in real time, massively increase reaction speed, which is the technique greatest strength since the mirroring itself is quite limited. However, there's no need to tell her that, he only need to fulfill the conditions for the revelation of his technique. With New Moon in her hand already unsheathed, there's no need to worry about a devastating attack. Confident that everything this failure without a technique can do, he can perform it better, the man charges forward. But soon he fell and slump to the ground, or to be more precise, his head fell. He was by no means weak, his speed was enough to easily avade the Kamo clan's Piercing Blood even when caught off guard. But the technique the girl just performed, what will be later simplified and known as simple domain of the New Shadow style was yet common knowledge in this era.
The mastery and efficiency of barrier technique pushed to the very limit by carving the formulas themselves onto the body, while it interferes with the body's natural flow of cursed energy, this allow her to perform simple domain flexibly without any restriction at a much bigger radius than should be humanly possible. From there, she enhance it even more by restrictions made through binding vows. She changes the activation conditions for simple domain continuously to better suited the heat of battle. For example, shrinking the effective radius to enable more effective repeated and continuous counters, or fixing her position and maintain contact with the ground to increase counter speed, which was just demonstrated. The man's technique can only mirror the surface action and not the mechanics behind it, due to that, the enhanced speed of simple domain's automatic counter far exceeded his own. Had the head of the Fujiwara clan didn't charge right in, he would have been able to see how he died before his spine was split and the subsequence shutdown of the brain.
The girl speak with a cheerful tone: "You can unsheathe New Moon without using the accumulated cursed energy and wield it as a normal sword". With that being said, the girl didn't use the sword accumulated cursed energy just now, it was her own. The cursed energy reserve that feels almost bottomless, made possible through a long chain of binding vows and sacrifices carried through multiples reincarnations. This allows New Moon to be charged within only a week, even tho she hasn't use it at all in the past 3 years. She hates to admit it but this wouldn't have been possible without that rattling brain.
Still, the girl with boundless cursed energy and unmatched skill in barrier techniques grimaces. "This still no where near enough. What I saw that night was so much more".