Execution

The young boy shivered as the blindfold was placed over his eyes. He felt large rough hands gently take hold of his slender arms, and was slowly but forcefully pushed into a kneeling position.

The swordsman looked at the kneeling boy and sighed. The kid didn't look a day older than 12. The swordsman knelt down and ruffled the boys curly black hair, then stood back up, dutifully raised his katana, and neatly separated the boy's head from his neck. The boy's headless brown body jerked, twin jets of blood sprouting from the neat stump of neck.