Kosuke noticed that Brinn didn't seem to like answering questions about herself, but he saw no harm in answering hers. He had absolutely nothing to hide. Kosuke gave a small smile, more wistful than the other ones he'd shown.<br/><br/>"Perhaps it may seem odd, but my master trained my for a reason very different from the usual one. My father... well, my father's side of the family had been researching dark magic for generations. When the rest of the village found out, they didn't like it much. The whole event escalated to the point where my parents were killed and I was badly injured. My master, a white magic mage in the town, took me in, treated me, and told me exactly what my father had been doing all those years he hid away from my mother and I in the basement."<br/><br/>Kosuke sighed, "A lot of it was new research, things none of the dark magic community knew about yet. And I hope no one ever knows. It's not natural and it's not right. I can only find comfort in my belief that my father only researched it, and never practiced it."<br/><br/>"Anyway, after being told of my father's activities (and in much greater detail than I cared to know) I vowed to end my family's tradition right there, and never practice, or research dark magic. I asked my master if he would teach me his white magic, and he agreed on the condition that I never deny a patient treatment." Kosuke laughed, "I was already a staunch pacifist, so that was really not a very big change."<br/><br/>"I spent almost fifteen years learning everything I could about healing and protection from him. When I was done, I wanted to travel around so that I could heal a lot more people, everywhere I went, and my master encouraged this." Kosuke gripped his necklace in his hand and held it up to look at it. "He gave me his necklace as a parting gift, and it's really the only material possession I have that matters to me."<br/><br/>Kosuke was lost in thought for a moment, then he came back to reality. "Oh, I'm sorry," he said. "You probably weren't asking for a life story, huh?" He said and gave a sheepish laugh.