21 - Chapter Twenty-One: A Commoner Infuriated
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My lord! What is happening?!
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My lord!
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You've drawn the Xian Jia Lan Wu!
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The Xian Jia Lan Wu has
acknowledged me as the emperor!
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Lord Keiro has pulled the Xian Jia Lan Wu?!
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Yes. Why is he able to draw it now,
when he couldn't do so before?
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He who draws the Xian Jia
Lan Wu shall rule all.
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Did the heavens wish for this,
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or did he change the heavens' will by force?
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My father... emperor?!
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Yes, unsure of ourselves,
we'll again set forth
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on our paths, even though they never cross
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It wouldn't matter if we
ran into each other anyway
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in order to obtain it
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I was lost in the void
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between truth and lies
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I was betrayed by a kind smile
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that never doubted our pictured future
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Yes, unsure of ourselves,
we'll again race along
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our paths, even though they never cross
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It wouldn't matter if we
ran into each other anyway
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in order to get it back
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The reason I always chased
after you without forgetting
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can't be expressed with words,
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because it's invisible to the eye
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feel my soul believe my heart
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Even now, the future from back then
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is shining inside our hearts
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Dammit! Bastard keeps hanging
around me all the time!
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What the hell's he up to?!
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I'm gonna catch him and make
him spill his guts! Spill his guts!
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Taito! Don't let him provoke you!
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Don't follow him! Come back, Taito!
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This is gonna take forever
if I leave it to the boy.
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It is the karma of the stars
that the Alkaid and Dubhe clash.
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I'm just going to set the stage for 'em.
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Get back here, Shimei!
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"Chapter Twenty-One:
A Commoner Infuriated"
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That clothing...!
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My lord. Please reconsider.
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Going into the mountains unaccompanied...
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You should focus on your priorities!
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Please do not go!
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This is a priority.
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It is something that can only
be done once a year on this day.
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But...!
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I am going. No matter what.
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Very well. In that case,
at least take us two with you!
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Do as you wish.
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Yes, my lord!
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Let's go, Ryuko.
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Y-Yes.
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I will return.
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Please be careful.
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This is thick fog.
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Sir Kocho.
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Yes?
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That clothing Lord Keiro
is wearing... Is it...?
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A year has passed, Chosu.
Time flies like an arrow.
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It has already been 16 years since then...
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Shimei! Where the hell did you go?!
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That voice!
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Shimei!
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It's you, mustached bastard!
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Alkaid...!
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I've finally caught you! I'm gonna
settle this once and for all today!
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There will be no killing tonight.
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Wh-What?!
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You're wearing a prayer shroud!
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Which means...
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Whose grave is it?
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My wife's.
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She was slain by the Xian
imperial army 16 years ago.
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I-Is that true, Sir Kocho?!
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Yes. Every year, without fail,
he visits his late wife's grave
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on the anniversary of her
death and prays for her soul.
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He purifies his body, abstains from
killing, and dons a prayer shroud.
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Today is that day.
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My mother is in this forest...?
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Ryuko.
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Yes?
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It might be all right to tell
you about Lord Keiro's past.
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No, I think you should know about it.
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She was killed by the Xian imperial army?!
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Damn!
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Forget it, then! Even I know
it's wrong to kill a guy
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who's visiting someone's grave
on the anniversary of their death!
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As a man, I can't fight someone like that!
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But answer me one thing!
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Why did you attack Lian Tong Temple twice?!
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Why did you kill my dad?!
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What are you talking about?
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Don't play dumb! You know full well
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that Shimei and Choka killed my dad, Soei!
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Curse them. They killed without cause...
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I had heard that Soei, the leader
of the Qing Long Platoon,
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was a good man, dauntless
and full of integrity,
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but I had no idea he had died...
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Y-You're saying you didn't send them?!
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Alkaid.
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Long ago, I, too, fought to protect my people
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from the empire's tyranny, just as Soei did.
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Wh-What?!
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I suppose telling this to the
Alkaid before my late wife's grave
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is also the karma of the stars...
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It was some 22 years ago already,
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during the reign of Miyo,
the previous emperor.
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Lord Keiro's hometown was
in the Ling Fan region,
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on the outskirts of the Xian Empire.
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He was born into the feudal lord's family.
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He took after his father Lord
Keito, a virtuous ruler,
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and the people of his fiefdom
had great faith in him.
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--Oh, it's Lord Keiro!
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--Lord Keiro!
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Lord Keiro!
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However, the peace did not last long.
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A governor-general serving
directly under the empire
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set his sights on the rich land and
attempted to seize control of it.
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K-Keiro...
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The time to make use of your inner-channel
Energy Manipulation has come...
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Father!
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Slay the governor-general... for our people!
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D-Don't kill me... Don't kill me!
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My mother, my father, my
kin, and even my people,
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all because of you...!
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Now you will pay!
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What the hell?!
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That would make you a wanted
criminal then! Not a general!
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Yes.
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Having left my homeland, I wandered
aimlessly throughout the empire.
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For many years.
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After journeying alone for a long time,
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Lord Keiro reached a turning
point in his life...
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...his encounter with Lady Chosu.
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Lady Chosu soothed his broken heart.
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She was a treasure to him.
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During his travels, he saved people
from corrupt officials and scoundrels,
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and people who revered his strength
and virtues began to follow him.
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Together, they then carved out a mountain
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and constructed an isolated
village for refugees.
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He also formed the Xuan Lang Platoon
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and strived to protect the village himself.
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A village for refugees...
That sounds just like Tai Shan!
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My heart was fulfilled,
and I then had a child.
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Keiko! Your name will be Keiko!
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Grow up to be strong, just,
and spiritually rich, Keiko!
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That was me...!
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About the same time his heir was born,
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Lord Keiro left to purge
nearby corrupt officials.
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Purge?!
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He lopped off rotten branches and leaves
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to try to make the Xian Empire right again.
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He did so completely free of personal greed.
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However, the empire instead
branded him a traitor!
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It was the imperial army's doing.
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I had been mistaken.
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The branches and leaves of
the empire were not rotten.
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Its very roots were!
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Chosu! Keiko!
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Chosu!
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Chosu!
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Chosu!
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Say something, Chosu!
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Chosu!
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I grieved, raged, and cursed.
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I cursed the Xian Empire,
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as well as my powerlessness
to save my own wife...
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That is when it happened!
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My karma... The karma of
the star of Dubhe awoke!
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The Dipper Bearers are seven
heroes born during times of turmoil
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who will guide the people.
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Of them, Dubhe, one of the
Two Celestial Deities,
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bears the karma of authority and fighting.
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In this way, Lord Keiro came to
realize that the karma of Dubhe
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orders him to return the Xian Empire
to its proper form by force.
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That is everything I know about him.
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How epic...
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I don't understand! How did you
wind up as a crony for the empire?
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How did you become a general?!
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After I constructed Chosu's grave,
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I surrendered to the empire
and pledged my lifelong loyalty.
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You surrendered?!
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Yes. In order to infiltrate
the center of command
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and seize control from the inside.
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Revolts and rebellions have no
effect on the enormous Xian Empire.
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Therefore, I decided to become
a member of the court,
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gain absolute power and military might,
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and then make the entire empire my own.
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The stars have decreed that
I rule the world by force!
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Rule by force?!
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I'll admit that you have your own
good reasons for what you're doing.
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But I refuse to accept the
idea of ruling by force!
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Next time we meet, I will finish this.
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Wait.
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What? Is there something else you--?
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That's the Xian Jia Lan Wu!
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Do you understand what this means?
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When next we meet, Alkaid,
I will be the emperor.
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Sir Kocho. What happened to
Lord Keiro's son after that?
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I'm told he abandoned him.
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Abandoned?!
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The path of a conqueror
is filled with carnage.
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He probably didn't want his
own son to be dragged into it.
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Then what about his daughter, Lady Taki?!
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Lady Taki... is not his true daughter.
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What?!
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I used to think that the heavens
wished for the Alkaid and Dubhe
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to clash and bring about a calamity, but...
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That's all? After I went to all the
trouble of bringing the Alkaid here?
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Light the fire!
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What is that?!
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I'll go see!
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Where did those flames come from?!
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I ordered it.
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Lord Keiro!
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Now that I can draw the Xian Jia Lan Wu,
the Alkaid is of no use to me.
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Keiro!
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Who are you?! A Divine Warrior?!
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Correct!
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Koyo! You handle things
here! I'll go help Taito!
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Got it!
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What?! With his bare hands?!
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Burn to death, Alkaid!
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So it's not against the rules
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as long as you don't get
your own hands dirty?!
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That's low! That's really
low, mustached bastard!
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Wh-What the...?!
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That's the Alkaid's energy...
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Looks like ol' Taito took care of things.
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So long!
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D-Damn you...!
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He wasn't consumed by the Alkaid's energy...
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Taito has improved. He's
as strong as Father now...
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I haven't much time left...
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Struggle! Struggle!
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After all, people are nothing but
puppets to the karma of the stars!
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Your lives are all limited. So try
your hardest to give me some fun.
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When the birds that forgot
their song even lost the ability to fly
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the sun through the trees
shed its light and cried loudly
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What will the morning sun
be telling us by shining again?
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Now, then...
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I'll clap my hands,
so that it will reach you
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I'll clap my hands,
it's still not quite enough
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I'll clap my hands,
with feelings of love welling up
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I'll clap my hands,
even if time comes to an end
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My feelings for you that I never
got to say I will now speak out!
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Every go every where,
arrive aboard this song, feel now!
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I'll clap my hands
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Every go every where,
arrive aboard this song, feel now!
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Will the Xian Jia Lan Wu's shine
tear even the Xian Empire apart?
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Everything about our imperial
court has been a falsehood!
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It's beginning. A new era of the
Xian Empire, led by Lord Keiro!
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If he becomes emperor,
what'll happen to Emperor Taiga?!
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Keiro will probably kill
him without hesitation.
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Look! This is the will of the heavens!
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This era will now be thrown
into violent upheaval!
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On Hero Tales, "Chapter Twenty-Two:
The Imperial Capital in Confusion."
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The Xian Jia Lan Wu has
already chosen a new emperor!
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"See you next time!"
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