User blog:Arvin30p/The Apprentice

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Yes… somehow; with how things are progressing… I feel that it’s about time for me to leave it to the next generation."

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I recall the conversation I have back then with a fellow admiral; we have been acquainted for quite a long time and I think it’s better if I can now pass the baton to someone else. It might be selfish of me to do it, but I know that they’ll understand. Afterall, I would love take a tour around the world to make myself feel better.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Anyways; for the meanwhile; I have to bear in mind the few things I need to do before passing the baton to soneone else. It’s not really that hard if you think about it but just to be safe; I’ll have my apprentice handle some things until he gets used to it.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Even so; the transfer won’t be happening anytime soon. Let’s be patient…

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I wore a disguise and went out of the base that night; it’s a bit non-standard coming from me but it’s a better way for me to look into things without being biased. Anyhow; I was already greeted by the night duty who were at first wary of me. Being wary also meant that they can incapacitate me right away.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Suspicious person, what is your motive?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Wait… It’s me…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I don’t know how you managed to copy the Admiral’s voice; but prepare yourself…"

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Anyhow a barrage of kunais come to my way as the guard made its move; It was Sendai afterall and these attacks are normally lethal to any ordinary people. But since it was me, I managed to get away with some hits that aren’t even lethal to begin with.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Impossible! Even the Admiral would be having a hard time dodging those."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Sorry to burst your bubble but I was just truly holding back during those times…

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I picked up a kunai and I threw it towards Sendai. Soon Sendai retaliated by throwing one towards the one kunai I throw but…

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"That didn’t deflected at all!?"

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Afterall, if I put some fortifying magic to the fling Kunai; it won’t stray from it’s direction once I threw it, Of course, Sendai hass no choice but to dodge it and when she lands on the ground, I was already there to greet her.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Admiral? Oh, you are on a disguise."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Thank goodness that you recognize me."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Somehow; I am more mad at you, if you can actually avoid my attack before; you should have done that already."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">That’s true; but since I am not too good in split-second decisions; I have to endure getting hit by her attacks back then. The same applies now despite not using any limiters.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Sendai; I’ll be back in the morning… So please keep up your work."

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I fixed my disguise again and this time; I managed to get out without being stopped. Anyhow; I have to thank that I wasn’t fighting Jintsu or I might have to be a bit rough on her.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Even though I did say that, I alreaady informed my trusted partners that I will be out for a while to look for possible candidates. If you ask me, there’s no way they’ll let me leave that easily. But the conditions of war has improved for the past few operations; I guess it’s high time for me to give it to the budding new talents.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Which is why; I wanted someone who can at least be able to help someone who is in need…

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">When I entered a familiar town, it was still the same town I still recall. Though the slums near the area has been cleared due to the efforts of the centralized government to give way for business establishments; I still think the slums are still around; but not on the surface.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">It was still evening so there aren’t much people around: I sat at the park bench and watch the people that were passing by. Everyone has its own story to tell and their own struggles to deal with.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">As I recall; I remember meeting with Kino here a lot of times whenever we want to get away from our responsibilities as students and in the secret garden; she would do things a lady shouldn’t be doing without worrying that someone might see her. But, the path towards the secret garden has been closed and its now under rennovation, thus taking away the only place to where Kino and I can be ourselves. But even so; right now; there’s no need for us to go there… we have grown well and we have already accepted our shortcomings and the fact that I am still as indecisive as ever. I guess once I managed to get rid of this limit; I might be able to become a force to be reckoned with; and make a proper decision on who I should marry.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Soon, a young man sat at the a different bench next to mine. He looked dejected and he was on a verge of doing something irrational. But I didn’t move at all since I don’t know if it’s the right action to do at this point.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">But for some reason; the young man started talking to me.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Are you new here?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Kinda…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I see… you must be running away."

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I can’t tell him that I was just doing my recruitment here… of course; no one would believe me if I say that.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"This park is something, right?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Indeed."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"A long time ago; I made a vow with a girl I love that we will meet once again after I get back from my job overseas. But, a few hours ago; after I went to see her; I just learned that she got married."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Ah, the standard drama that involved Long Distance relationshiip. It meant that the guy is a hardworker that he didn’t have time to send a message to his girlfriend which soon got misinterpreted that he might be cheating on her. Which resulted to a chain of events the guy didn’t want to face.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Do you love her?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Yes."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"It must be rough then… to be betrayed."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I had a lot of stories regarding to betrayal. But Yuugumo’s death in the past is the latest story I can still recall.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">After a while, the young man stood out and went to the nearby convenient store. It took him 10 minutes to choose something before coming out. After that, he tossed a can of beer to me.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Here, Drink it."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Sorry; I don’t drink."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"How boring."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I gave the man his alcohol back. I don’t intend to drink at all thus I have to be professional since I am still at work, albeit unofficial.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Say, what do you want to do at this point?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Hmm… I want to kill myself. I don’t know how I can live in this shitty world."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Sounds promising…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I can’t help but feel sarcastic about his thoughts. Well, drunk people tend to be irrational, but he is also heartbroken so I guess that’s why he is willing to kill himself.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"You know what; rather than committing suicide; I would rather get busy with something else."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Something else… I quit my work just to get back here… only to find out that I am not a part of her life anymore. Hey, how can I keep myself busy with all these bad things trying to remind me how terrible this world is?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Simple, if you are somehow busy enough keeping your life as is… you won’t be able to think of such trivial things."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Indeed; being an admiral is like dancing with death; But since most admirals now are stationed inside their bases; the only thing that can threaten them is from any attacks from the land.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"You made it sound so easy, what is your previous occupation anyways?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Me? I am just a soldier that fought in the frontlines before…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Ah, he stopped mocking me once he heard that story. Afterall; no one wants war and to be able to see people lose life in a blink of an eye; his heartbreak is nothing but a trivial thing for soldiers who risked their lives fighting a senseless fight.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Mister, have you killed someone before?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Yes. A lot… with these two hands; I took out the lives of those who fought against us. It’s disgusting, it’s gritty and most of all; it’s something that can be compared to hell."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Being a vanguard is a thing; but for me who can be valued as a tactical nuke; I lost count on the bodies I killed after hitting a thousand. I don’t want to count how many innocent lives I have taken with me as I tried to protect this country. Even so; I wish for their better life in the next world.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">The young man stood up and finished drinking his beer. Rather; what he was drinking is just a can of root beer.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I guess you have it rough too…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Indeed."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Well then, let find something to ease our troubles to."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Without a moment to waste, the young man dragged me towards the red light district.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">|---|

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">After he purchased some girls to mingle with, I ordered one but I just asked her to ask if she knows him or some sort.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Oh, that man is a regular here… even though it’s just a month since he just came here… he always purchase some girls and have a night sleep with them."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">In short; what he said back then must be slightly a lie. It’s quite bad taste if you ask me.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Anyways; how about a night with…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"No thanks. I don’t want to make you do something you don’t want to do."

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">The girl froze. I can tell afterall since I have seen girls like her during my time in the military.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Your voice… it’s familiar…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Then, I ask you not to disclose it. I am on a secret mission afterall."

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">The young girl nods as she smiled a bit.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Sir, if you want to meet me some other time; just call me in this number…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Alright."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I picked up a piece of paper and I put it inside a different wallet. I didn’t use the wallet that I got from the girls and instead; I am using what I bought whenever I have to do something else.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Anyhow; I just let the girl rest at the bed and I sit at the chair as I listen to the man who is on the opposite room; Surprisingly; he isn’t the type that actually touch the girls. Even so; I have to know if he’s lying or not. It would be a waste if I have to start the recruitment process again tomorrow evening.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">The morning came and after I bid farewell to [Amber] who gave me a kiss, I did went and meet the guy who looked wasted. This time around; he drank a lot of beer…

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">In the end; he never touched the girls and slept alone inside the room; It was surprising given how he can do acts like that yet never touch them. In my case; I would might have been tempted by the girls due to the fact that I am out of the usual surveillance range. But since I had a feeling that the sniper can just see me anytime she wanted to, It’s better to have myself act like a good guy and be happy with it.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">That noon, the guy managed to recover himself and he told me the names of his ex-girlfriend. Surprisingly; it's someone I know...

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I left the man on his house and I decided to book a hotel room and changed there and take a bath; I want to remove any evidence that I’ve been to the red light district since I have a feeling that the usual combat-happy people; are going to interrogate me once they snuff something out of me.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">After getting changed; I went to the bank and have the different wallet be stored in the vault. If I take it back with me; I am sure that I’ll be burn to a stake. Anyhow; I’ll still tell Sazanami about this so I have to get myself ready.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">It’s already afternoon when I managed to contact the ex-girlfriend of the candidate; she looked happy as she told me the story of her husband; Soon; I asked her if she had been on a LDR, she truthfully answered my question and she said that she did sent him a message that they are already over. I guess since the buy didn’t receive it; it meant that he changed his number along the way.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"So Hiro-kun, how’s Kino-sama?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Ah, Kino is still as ever. Though she has mellowed out already."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I see… but, you are not yet married to her, right?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Yes…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Her face was a bit complicated; She kinda expected us to get married right after we graduated afterall…

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"So, where’s Kouhai-chan then?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"She has died…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Sorry to hear that."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I can’t really tell her that Akari became a shipgirl. But even so; she has been buried already so…

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Hiro, if you are still worried if Kouhai-chan will be mad at you. Look at this; if you remain unhappy because she has died; then she might come out and haunt you. Please marry Kino-sama already and start a family."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Thank you for the advice. I’ll be forever in your bebt."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"If I can help the already too-capable Hiro-san, then it’s already an achievement for me."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">After the formalities; we bid farewell to one another; in short; the guy is indeed telling the truth; He just have forgotten about it along the way due to the discrepancies to his memory. He’s not a bad person; he is just a miserable one anyways.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I got a call from Sazanami and she told me that she knew what happened. She’s truly sharp as always. I’ll have to listen to her lecture once I got back to the office so it should be fine. Anyhow; the one I talked with has a fragment of a shipgirl… probably that’s what attracted her to me.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Which reminds me; could it be that the shipgirl fragments are actually the reason why they are attacted to me?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I have no proof for that, but if that’s the case; then I guess it’s a curse all along.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">|---|

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">The evening came and I saw that man again. This time around; he isn’t as terrible as yesterday.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Mister; do you know any place where they can accept someone like me?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Hmm… I know a place; but that place will be rough on you."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Can It kill me?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Probably."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Well then… Let me in."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I was just about to ask him about joining. But I guess he took an initiative…

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Can you tell me why you want to die?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I believe that my life has no meaning already."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Is that so?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Ah, I don’t want to deal with it anyways. But… for the sake of world peace…

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Anyways, you are miserable person right now; but you are not the type who recovers quickly… However; you didn’t touch any of the girls that night so I had a bit of hope from you."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"You are spying on me?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Rather; the ladies you ordered were complaining that you just left them hanging after you touched the bed."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Ah… sorry about that."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"So, are you someone who takes pleasure in different girls every night?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"No. I just sleep once I hit my body on a soft bed. That’s why I am referred to as the ‘sleeping man’ at that bar."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Indeed; you sleep like a log that night.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Anyhow; Let me ask you one more question then… Are you willing to help this country?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Am I going to be a soldier?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Nope."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I really don’t care… I just want to live my life properly this time; so even if I die tomorrow; I won’t have any regrets for as long as I have done something."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Good, at least he has a motivation to get going… but I am still concerned about his will to throw away his life as if it’s needless. But; it would be the job of the one who will take his side… it’s not our girls job to do that.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Last question; tell me about your name, and what you wanted to do from now on?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"My name is Asakura Jin. What I wanted to do from now on is to make sure that I will be able to prove to her that I am not the same person that I was before."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Good enough; With that; I have finally secured someone who can take the reins towards the next generation.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Well then…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I removed my disguise and the man was surprised to see my face; Of course; I am popular anyways that I have to put up disguises whenever I went strolling.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"The Raven…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Yup… Hiro at your service. Anyways, you are now officially passed as a cadet for training. Don’t worry; I’ll make sure that you will be able to handle the responsibilities once I have turned them over to you."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Yup. That man looked surprised as hell…Afterall, the man he talked with all night long happens to be someone who is going to pass the baton towards the next generations. It’s quite exciting for me during those times so… I want to do this if the opportunity arises.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Anyhow; A military vehicle came to us and I took him towards our base; from there; he’ll be trained by sensei who has been lazing around as of late; she won’t be bored this time once I introduced Jin to him. It will be a sight to behold.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Anyhow, that night; I told Sazanami about a candidate shipgirl I saw at the bar. Of course; I was sermoned by her for going to the red light district.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"So, did you sleep with her?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"We did sleep… but I let her sleep on the bed and I slept on the chair."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"No other interactions?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"She did kiss me on the cheek when I got out…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Die…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Sorry."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Nonetheless; I think Kino knows it already… Kumano must have been reporting every move I made since Kino knows all the disguises I wear. Sazanami too knows it and I don’t plan on letting everyone know that I wear disguises.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I talked with Kino the next day after Sazanami demanded me to sleep with her. This time around; I did something to appease her rage and in the end; she acted like a puppy after I gave my love to her. It was a bit sad that I have to part with her but since work and pleasure can’t be mixed; I have to go do my work already.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Hey Cheater…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Ouch…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Since there’s nothing that happened to you and that young lady you were with… I’ll ignore this… anyways, you have found your apprentice."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Kinda."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I see… Also; I heard from Minori that you met up with her. What’s the reason?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Oh, my protégé is her ex-boyfriend; I wanted to see what kind of person he is to her. I got a favorable response from her despite breaking up with him."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I see… Well, Minori truly loved her LDR partner, but since he hasn’t contacted her for the past 5 years; she thought that everything is over so she send a message to him… I think it didn’t reached him and she married to guy that her family has recommended to her."

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Indeed, it was a tragic story all along. But then again; if Jin made time to contact her everyday; I believe that they might get married one day.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Hiro; you didn’t tell her that Akari is a shipgirl, right?"

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I see… so Minori is indeed sad that Akari died…"

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">It’s a complicated matter anyways; also; since she is a government secret; any outsiders who would accidentally discover that would have a gag order readied for them. Anyhow; even with that; the discrimination never stopped but…

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Hiro, have you decided on what you will do?"

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Recalling what Minori has said to me yesterday; I really need to make up my mind. Anyhow; It seems that the time for me to defer this decision is already reaching the end… In a ways; I have already made my preparations as of late but just for the record; I still have no idea who I should take with. But I don’t mind if they come with me. But…

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Kino; I’ll tell you on that date…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Umu… I understand; I shouldn’t force you then."

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Feeling dejected; Kino went back to do her work. It will be tough from here on; but I will make sure that my decisions; I won’t regret it.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">When that time comes; Kino; Akari and I will meet in the crossroads of fate and we will decide out future from hereon. It will be rough for us. But it will be worth the wait. I’ll make sure that we are going to savor this until the final days of our lives.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">But for now; I have to train my protégé to become a decent admiral.

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Epilogue 1: The life of an Admiral-in-training.
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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I thought I was going to die. But in reality; this is worse than death…

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Right now; I have been training under a mysterious woman the Admiral Raven refer to as ‘sensei’ as she test my ability to deal with something unexpected. Anyways; that [something unexpected] happens to be an assasination.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">A lady with long black hair that wields a long Katana is assigned to be the assailant in this exercise; according to sensei; she is one of the guards of the Admiral Raven. While he is a very strong person; there are still threats to his life and they plan on taking it towards his constituents.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"An Admiral must have the ability not only to protect oneself, but also the ones he/she is commanding."

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Right now; I am protecting a stuffed toy from getting slashed by the assailant; But after 2 hours; I already failed this exam for 10 times. I must say; she is way too good to be a guard.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Newbie; if you don’t keep moving; Mikazuki will kill you this time."

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">As per sensei’s provocation; I moved from my place and immediately a sword came out from my shadow. Wait, was she capable of sorcery too?

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I immediately run as the Assailant’s figure came out from the shadow from the ground. She’s cute but she is deadly too… I guess I can’t judge someone’s ability on their faces.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">As I run aimlessly; I arrived at the place where I left. Somehow; I felt a sense of déjà vu is kicking in.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">And before I could react; I failed for the 11th time.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Damn, it’s too hard."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Indeed. This test is indeed the ultimate test of your mettle."

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Wait, why have I been taking the final exams this early?

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Anyhow, you did better than Hoshi so be proud of yourself."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"hah…"

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Unlike me, Hoshi-san seems to remain in place as he protects the person he wanted to protect; However; the test needed him to protect himself too. The assailant in that exam is no other than Admiral Raven during those times.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">In the end; I don’t know why was I even scouted in the first place?

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">As I rest my tired body on the dorm space that is separated from the naval base; I was greeted by a staff of the Admiral who looked like she came out from school. I must remember that despite their looks; they are still shipgirls; an important military asset and the only beings capable of injuring an abyssal.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Good work for today."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Thanks."

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">As I receive my meal for the night; the young lady greeted me as she smile subtly to me.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Are you a guest?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Yes… I am an admiral-in-training."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I see… is it tough?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"yes. But I think it’s worthwhile."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">The young lady soon sat on the floor and started eating her share. She’s calm and collected. As if she reminds me of someone I know back in the past.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I see… if you became an admiral; what will you do then?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I really haven’t thought about it at this point."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Is that so? It’s a matter of life and death afterall… Also, it’s a concern for National defense too."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Whoa, that’s quite large of a responsibility I got if that ever happens… Anyhow; why does someone like them risk their lives fighting monsters to begin with?

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Can I ask you about something… Shi-gatsu…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Shigure. Call me Shigure."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Shigure, why are you risking your lives in this war?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Shigure stopped a while to think for the reply she needs to deliver. I wonder if it’s something important to her all along.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I am risking my life in this war because that’s my purpose. Unlike those girls who have been human before they became one; I am one of those artificially created with nothing to return to… you see; I am nothing more but an organism constructed to defeat the enemies that threatened the peace of this world. Outside of my duty; I don’t know what I should do if the battle against the abyssal has finally reach it’s conclusion."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I see… you girls are the soldiers…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Yes. As plain as simple as that; we are afterall soldiers cheaply built."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I still can’t accept the fact that they can be made cheaply; if human lives are cheap; I am sure everyone else would have protested to it.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Shigure; what do you know other than fighting?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I know espionage, martial arts and survival tactics if I ever get stuck on a very precarious situation."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Ah, all of them are for military use…

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I have a feeling that Admiral Raven are raising soldiers himself, but it looks like they are more geared towards…

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"However; these set of skills are something I have picked myself."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Eh?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">As Shigure said those words; I felt that Shigure is not free at all…

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Admiral once told me to learn something befitting of a lady but… in the end; I wanted to continue protecting this world; that’s why he allowed me to learn these stuff so that one day; I’ll be able to continue support those who are tasked to help this country."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">In the end; her argument is something I didn’t expected out of her. The Admiral has offered her already lessons to integrate herself to the outside world but she herself said that she wanted to help those who are in need. In the end; I feel that she is more courageous than I do.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Shigure; are you willing to learn life skills if the battle is over?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I don’t know… I might learn a few but I might not be able to fully grasp it wholly."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I see… well then; I pray for your endeavors then."

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">With that; my talk with Shigure has come to a conclusion.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">It’s been 5 months since I trained hard; re-educating yourself is never easy and moving your body once again puts a toll on it. Instead of forcing things my way; I learned to do it on my pace; It’s not efficient but it’s more effective and before I know it…

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Quest Completed."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">As Sensei said those words; I managed to fend off the Assailant’s attack towards me and my subordinate teddy bear who managed to weave through her relentless attacks.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I can’t believe that you cleared it. Asides from Hiro and that damned Vampire; you are the third one to clear it."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Thank you."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Anyways; let’s advance towards the next lesson."

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">And as sensei pointed on the door; a familiar face awaits me.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Congratulations on your exams. I am Shigure and I shall be your partner from this day on."

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Very well…"

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">And my life as an admiral has finally begun…

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Epilogue 2: Behind the curtains
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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">After witnessing Jin’s successful completion of the program; I got a notification from sensei…

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">[Your protégé is decent.]

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Indeed; I know he has a knack for it. But most likely because of what Shigure has reported to me back then…

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Commander Raven, I want to help in you in any way."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Is that so? But I have already assigned the task to everyone at this point. Can you cook?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Impossible."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Can you do accounting?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Impossible."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Can you do business?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Impossible."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Then, I have no use of you."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Feeling dejected. Shigure frowns like a dog… I guess I was being too hard on her too.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Let’s see… do you remember Sensei?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Aoba-san’s other work?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Yeah, something like that."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"What do I have to do then?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Please talk with the Admiral-in-training that resides on the special dorms."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"But it’s a male-only dorm, right?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Yes. But I’ll give you a free pass today so please talk to him until he feels better."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT"> "Was he in a slump?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I guess you can call it that way."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I think Jin is not in a slump. But more of in a phase where he doubts things. He is unassured on what he could be doing and thus; by sending Shigure there; she might change his behavior in a way.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Commander Raven, I shall do your orders then."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Very well…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">As Shigure took off, I contacted Yamato to prepare some food along the way. I must be thorough in raising a new generation of admirals.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">In the end; Shigure went on for an hour talking with Jin.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">|---|

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">A few months and I saw Jin’s improvements in a lot of aspects; when the 5th month hits; I realized that it’s time for him to do the final exams…

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Beside me is Shigure who is waiting for the result. Anyhow; the reason why Shigure is here is because I have a mission for her.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Shigure; you heard why he is here, right?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Yes."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Are you disappointed in my decision?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Not at all… Admiral is still a human being afterall."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I can’t call myself human after all the stuff that I have done. But, I appreciate you for telling me that."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Shigure blushed a bit as I praised her. Well since she acts more of a retainer than someone I know; I guess It’s slightly my fault why she acts this way.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Shigure; regardless of the results; I will assign you to be Admiral Jin’s partner."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I see… so you are reassigning me."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Yes. Think of it as your extension to your vow…"

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Shigure had a complicated face as I told her those words. I am not sure how to deal with her in full honesty but…

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Will Admiral forget us?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Probably not…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Will Admiral be back to lead us again?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"No. I have made my decision already."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Will I find a reason for my living?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Yes. But, only you can find it yourself. Asking for my help won’t solve it."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">A girl’s hapiness is something that she must search. It applies to all so we should always search for it no matter how vain it is.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Soon, I gave Shigure a red bookmark.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Touch it."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Understood."

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Shigure touches the Bookmark and all her levels and bonus stats is slowly decaying. After the bookmark stopped glowing red; Shigure regains her old form. Her stats has all returned to her original stats before remodeling and modernization.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I feel so heavy…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I reset your levels. But you still keep your innate talents."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I see… Thank you."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"I know it’s a bit harsh of me but… I can’t lend him a level 90 Shigure if he is starting anew."

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">It would be totally unfair if that ever happens. I do pray for Shigure to level up sooner.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"But Shigure; if the Admiral is in danger of due to his position, take this with you."

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I gave Shigure a navy blue bookmark, It’s connected to my archives which temporarily grants her all the level 90 stats she had just in case the enemy is a battalion of soldiers.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Anyways; to ease her sense of heaviness; I gave her a white bookmark to lessen the weight she is feeling right now.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">And as the trial has been finished; I saw Shigure managed to arrive at her position just in time.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Sensei and I have a talk after Jin was assigned on a naval base near our base; for now it will be their temporary base of operations until I handed him the keys to the base.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Hiro; you sure have decided huh…"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Yes. I have already decided at this point."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Very well… With that; I guess our plan is successful."

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Indeed; it’s been a long time since I worked with sensei. It’s quite tough to do stuff but in the end; we managed to reach our goal this early.

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"So, what will you do after this battle?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Sensei, that’s a death flag, right?"

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Yes. But knowing you; you will break them before they even happen."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">"Hahahaha."

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">

<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">I don’t want to deal with death flags all along; but just in case; I told sensei about my future plans… she seems to be interested in it so it might be good if she can jump into the business world too.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">Anyhow; with the successor being tested for the second time; It’s time for me and Sensei to implement phase 2 to our plans.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">And with that; the path towards the end of the war is slowly drawing to a close… with the actors rearing to see the end of the darkness; I along with a hundred more girls who are waiting for the end… we all march the stage towards our goal… a temporary peace that would last for at least one or two generations.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">And once we have achieved that; the plans for everlasting peace will set into motion.

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<p dir="LTR" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" align="LEFT">But that will happen once the abyssal has stopped reviving.

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