Zento Calfrun

"Who the fiz was that asshole?"

--Cale Efrun, referring to a disguised Zento Calfrun

Zento Calfrun-- referred to by either his first or last name depending on who is adressing him at the time-- is an incredibly skilled swordsman from Ausum Land. He carries and occasionally plays his late father's trumpet, but he has never actually used music-based attacks like those usually employed by the people of Ausum Land and its neighbor, Lolfail Land. Zento is the cousin of Cale Efrun, who would eventually become the powerful being known as the Illusive Squid.

Zento never knew his mother, as she had died in childbirth. After the death of his father during the Second Great War between the lands of Ausum and Lolfail, Zento was to be sent to live with his mother's family in Awesome Land. Distraught by the loss of his father and not wanting to leave his homeland, Zento ran away, and would eventually encounter a Mysterious Hooded Figure. The man decided that he would take the boy in and make him an apprentice. The man opened the way to a pocket dimension existing at the very edge of the Timestream, where he spent 100 years training Zento in swordplay, though only ten years passed outside the dimension, and the two swordsmen only aged by ten years. Eventually, Zento was forced to kill his master and leave the pocket dimension.

Before his death, Zento's master had told him of a blade of unbelievable power which resided atop the mountian known as Mount Ausum. Zento climbed the mountain, facing great danger in the form of both environmental threats and powerful monsters which had made the mountain their home. Upon reaching the summit he discovered the Ausum Sword, a weapon which amplified the natural abilities of its weilder and could take any form. Zento descended the mountain, and made the decision to follow in his father's footsteps and join Ausum Land's armed forces.

After less than a year of service Zento was placed under the command of Cha Cha Watsrobe during the conflict in Awesome Land against the Time Keeper, Stansilaus Gruema n. Just after assisting Cha Cha with the rescue of Princess Sarah of Really Cool Land, Calfrun unintentionally poisoned himself by consuming a taco laced with Epic Fail. The embodiment of the Fail manifested itself outside of Zento's body as an evil clone, who referred to himself as Otoza Andrarl and expressed a desire to wipe out the population of the world. Zento attempted to stop the clone, but was thoroughly defeated, and would have been killed if not for the intervention of the Illusive Squid (At that time going by the name Squidamillion Squidicus). The two defeated Otoza after the Squid revealed his true identity to be Zento's cousin, Cale Efrun, from two years in the future.

Cale brought an injured Zento to the Efruns' house, where the 15-year old stayed until he was fully recovered. Later, he met with the future Cale, who explained the time travel and revealed to his younger cousin that they were both of a race of squid-men. Cale's father and Zento's mother were squids, and so the boys were both half-squid. Cale explained further that the squids were from a seperate dimension known as Cardinalos, and were in danger of being exterminated. Having earned the trust of the squids while posing as "Squidamillion," Cale asked for Zento's help in saving the squids, and the boy agreed to do so.

At his cousin's request, Zento returned to Mount Ausum where he obtained two more weapons, the Blade of Sanity and the Blade of Insanity. Donning a Mysterious Hooded Cloak and taking a false name, Xanthos, Zento delivered the swords to present Cale, and proceeded to observe him at a distance as he learned how to use them. Once Cale had mastered the blades and the powers that they gave him, Zento confronted his cousin and explained their squid origins. The two travelled to Cardinalos, and after Cale went back in time, Zento returned to his cousin's future counterpart to serve as a "squidsassin."

Prior to Awesome Land!: An Interactive Story
Zento was born in Ausum Land to parents who, as of yet, have not been named in any of the stories. His mother died while giving birth, and he lived alone with his father for four years. Zento's earliest memories are those of his father telling him stories about the things he saw and did while serving in the Ausum Navy. The boy was always particularly fond of the stories involving Phantom Watsrobe and the Phantom Regiment.

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