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[Ochiba-no-kata] But our fathers were enemies, you see. Their misery was ours. Wars raged, even in our castle. But I had Mariko. She was my happiness. And then she was sent away. For years, I couldn’t recognize this woman I was told she’d become… That Mariko, in her father’s name, wished to become a martyr… But I see her now. The girl who did everything right, with anger growing in her chest. All she seeks is destruction. [Mariko-sama, tearful] Aren’t you tired of all this?

This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery. There is... possibility. There is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it. And who has been so close to doing it as we are right now?