Although Kaoru was uncertain, he nodded anyway. He knew his family could trace their heritage back to the old capital, but beyond that…? They had no military distinction to speak of. Rather, it was their art that had made the Hitachiin family, and a peculiar quirk of their line that the family name descended not through the first born sons, but the first born daughters. With so little of his early family history known, he could not be sure of Genkaku's words either way.

"…I will be sure to give it to him." He slipped the bracelet onto his left wrist. "…we will carry on that legacy for you."