Kuta was considered a powerful swordmaster who was considered one of the best and held the title of Sabre for her generation despite her age. She was not considered the strongest in fact she was probably one of the weakest when it came to just raw power. That was not just because of her age either as she was weaker when came to just raw power than most kids her age even. Those that she once considered her rivals could still beat her in a matter of just raw strength, thus they were stronger. However, power is more than just strength alone. What she lacked in strength she made up with her skill, stamina, and blade work. Another reason she was given the nickname Spellblade as her skills were jokingly referred to as magic since she could not explain how she did what she did.
Everyone was able to see what she did and she could show it off as well. It was even well known that she never skipped a day when it came to training and took everything seriously in regards to always trying to improve herself. Despite her skill and talent, she worked hard as talent alone will lose to someone that works hard. Thus to avoid this become someone with talent who works just as hard as someone without it. In Kuta's case, there was one area of her family where she took a family motto to the extreme, that being to treat one's blade as if it were an extension of oneself. To attempt becoming one with the blade so that the movement felt as if you were moving whatever you were using to wield it. Blades were not something the Sabre family wielded with just their arms alone as there were members that used other parts of the body like their feet or their legs. Those were unique cases but still cases that existed in this family that was known for being masters of the blade for centuries after all. There were stories of those that blade styles that went beyond just dual wielding to levels not thought humanly possible yet they were recorded in the Sabre family archive none the less.
Kuta often claimed that her dual swords were like a part of her and that is why she was able to control them as finely and effortlessly as she could. When it came to treating them as an extension of herself, that where she took them anywhere and everywhere she was allowed to. Being an acknowledged swordmaster as well as being named a member of the Sabre family allowed her to take them almost anywhere and everywhere. Even if she was not using them the entire time they were on her person or directly next to her.
Anyone who attempted to take even one of her swords away while she was seemingly distracted or not directly around them would get immediately stared down by her unleashing her fighting intent as if they wanted to steal what was basically a part of herself then they would have to deal with her first. It was not just the other kids her age who attempted this but people of all ages. Why would they get spooked by just her giving off her fighting intent? it did not matter that she was just a kid either. Unleashing one's fighting intent had nothing to do with their age but just their intent to fight for whatever reason they were being provoked or choosing to do so.
While Kuta could do this and did so whenever someone touched one of her swords without asking. She did it in a manner that affected everyone in the area not just her intended target thus people would quickly learn to never touch her swords without her knowledge first. It was also this that further reasoning for why she was given the title of Spellblade since she always knew when someone was trying to touch her swords without her knowledge first. Though it was always thought to be that she really was taking the idea of making your blades and extension of herself to the greatest extremes only though to be legends and hearsay amongst weapon users.
Kuta awoke on the birthday when she was officially becoming a pre-teen to stretch her arms as she usually did when she awoke from her slumber for the previous night.
"That's strange why don't I feel anything," Kuta said to herself out loud
She was stretching her arms but for some reason, she did not feel them at all. She knew was thinking about doing this but felt nothing as happened as her mind was giving her arms orders to move yet they were not carrying them out for some reason. Then she went about trying to try and touch her face only to find that that was not happening either.
Looking down she noticed that her swords were also gone just like her arms. However, while she was unable to feel her arms this was never the case for her swords as she felt them in the same place that they always were when she slept. They were lying on top of her and as she got up they would fall into her lap as she would stretch her arms.
What was lying in her lap at the moment was not her beloved and treasured dual swords but instead something that weighed the same as them seemingly but slightly heavier though. It was not enough weight that it was uncomfortable though but enough to notice a change from what she was used to. The things in her lap were a pair of metallic arms that were the same color, texture, and even seemingly makeup as the blades of her swords.
'Why are my arms in my lap' Kuta thought to herself but then gasped in shock
Why and how was she referring to what was lying in her lap as her arms as they did look like them but she did not have metal arms though. She had a pair of normal arms and her dual swords instead. Though any attempt to think about her arms or her swords just led her to think about the pair of metallic arms that were lying in her lap as she did not know why this was the case.
"My arms are literally my swords and my swords are literally my arms" Kuta spoke to herself aloud as she made the realization that was before her.
Such a realization caused her mind to race so fast that her eyes rolled up into her head and she passed out from everything it was trying to process at the moment.
It was very confusing to her when she heard one of the servants who worked for the family enter her room as they heard her earlier claim.
"What is the.....what happened to your entire body," the servant said.
Looking upon Kuta whose skin was a different color than it was the previous day. It had become far darker as her entire complexion changed so that it was completely different now than it was before. Her light marron color hair that unique to members of the direct Sabre bloodline that was not seemingly half white. Whatever caused her skin to become a different complexion also caused half of her hair to become white. Though it was only for a moment the servant saw that even Kuta's eyes were a different color now they were the color of her treasured blades than the normal green that should have been