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There are times in a man’s life when… No, that sounds stupid.
That sounds like something Hijikata-san would write in some harrowing story of his life;
God knows the last thing I’d ever wanna do is sound like that bastard. Let’s try again.
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God damn it. I didn’t think this would be so difficult. How do you even start something like this?
Yeah, yeah, she insisted. Who would have thought I’d get bored enough to actually do it?
Still, I can’t see how it’s gonna help me. I mean...
Okay, fine. You want honesty? I really, really enjoy the feel of pulling my sword from a man’s gut,
and now I’ll never do it again. There now, that’s better, yeah? Satisfied?
I’ll do you one up. The pleasure and power of a blade, slicing through sinew,
opening muscle, organs, skin, blood pooling toward the hilt as it catches under streetlamps...
Knowing that I have the power to take, do destroy, to protect
Don’t ask me to write about things. I can’t do this! Why am I still laying here? I should be there,
fighting alongside Kondou-san! I should be
