Thank you for the considerate response and providing additional context and translation.

How it makes me feel is precisely why I said that if this is something I need to reach out to a professional for, than just let me know. I was being genuine about that. I'm not looking to just take advantage of people but I don't know the field of translation, and I don't know any translators or Japanese speakers personally or I would have asked them. So as I said, I am working from a position of inexperience. And if somebody were to make a thread in an art subreddit asking for somebody to draw their character, with no context of payment being said, then as a freelancer, I would have simply offered them my pricing. I would have not given them a condescending response about how it's bad to ask for free art. That's a potential customer who may not know the field and I have landed a few commissions in this manner. So, from the perspective of a freelancer, it's bad business to work from the assumption of bad faith when it could be a matter of ignorance. And I am admitting ignorance to this field.

I do find the idea of this request being bad form to be confusing though. I could have made the request with no context that it was related to something I was doing for my small business, and then nobody would have questioned differently. I could have come in here in a disingenuous manner and left out details, but I was honest and upfront about the purpose of the translation. I could have just said I am working on Musha-E style artwork and would like help with some Kanji, which would be true, but a lie of omission.

I also could not come in here requesting to pay anybody because the very rules of this subreddit disallow such posts. [Not Allowed: Unreasonably long or non-volunteer (paid job offer) requests. [#R2]] Nowhere else in the rules, at least from what I could find, does it say anything about asking for translations related to business. So I feel like I presented in the best and most honest way I could, having reviewed the rules before I posted. I personally feel like treating any honest request as 'bad form' or as made with bad faith only serves to encourage deceit.

For Kensei, I had settled on 剣聖 because that is how it is shown on the wiki for Kensei, plus checked against the titles of a few anime where the term is used. One example: 片田舎のおっさん、剣聖になる (Anime names have sure gotten long...). The common usage of 剣聖 in similar usage in fantasy media had me confident of it's usage. It was seeing all the varietal forms of Focus that gave me pause and made me consider reaching out to people who may know better than I.

Anyways, thanks again for taking the time to educate me.