Vile Axe

 is a weapon in SINoALICE.

Weapon Story
Flames swallowed the house, leaping up as if to burn the black night sky. The boy barely escaped, but his father, his mother, his siblings, and everything he owned went up in flames. All the boy was left with was a battleaxe the bandits had left behind, and the burn marks on his body. He waited for the wounds to heal, cursing the gods for condemning him to this fate.

The boy grew up to be a man, but still the burns did not heal. He tried all types of medicine, but there seemed to be no hope of recovery. Each time he brushed away the maggots gnawing on the scars, the pain would flare back up, and he would sink into a foul mood. Searching for a way to forget the pain, the young man joined a band of mercenaries. He realized that the moment his sword descended on an enemy, then and only then did the pain ease. He had finally found an escape from his suffering.

Hired to fight in a conflict with a neighboring kingdom, the mercenaries laid waste to an enemy village. The young man wildly swung the battleax, determined to force his pain on others, to drown his suffering in the murderous ecstasy of war. He burst inside a home, beheaded the father as he pleaded for his life, hacked the mother's body to bits while shouting curses, and tossed the baby into the burning stove. For a short time, he forgot the pain of the burns.

Swept up in the ecstasy of slaughter, he lit fire to the room where the corpses lay, just for fun. On his way out, he spied a young girl standing near the burning home, crying. The moment he laid eyes on her, he remembered the fire of his youth that had taken everything from him, and the pain of the burn wounds flared up. Understanding there was only one way to end this suffering, he lit himself on fire, and handed the bloodstained battleax to the girl.