[ please considering going and bullying giyuu instead, a tried and true tradition? ]

It was a parting gift. To a—to someone I considered a friend. [ his words take a nostalgic sort of bent, a little too sad for the occasion. ] I thought that with her circumstances, a blade would... help her take her life back. Encourage her to cut a path of her own.

[ ... ]

In any case, I realize now it was silly. It certainly frightened her, and it was not, um... the most doting present.