In an age when death lurked everywhere, many people lived under the control of endless cruelty and numbness. They could feel a sick pleasure only when harming others, and at the moment they deprived someone of life, they could instead experience what it meant to be alive.
There were also plenty of people who regarded torture as entertainment. The strong harming the weak seemed only natural.
However, when blades were brought down upon their own flesh, even these people could understand what it meant to feel pain cut to the bone.
Seeing his village come under a wide-scale attack, with the ninjas having lost their captain's leadership and forced to fight on their own, while powerless civilians fled in all directions, Tsugawa Taishi was nearly consumed by rage.
Unless he reduced these invaders to ashes, he could not dispel the hatred burning in his heart.
Yuzhen's calm tone, his emotionless and indifferent attitude, and the way he treated taking the lives of clan members as an ordinary matter had once again fueled Tsugawa Taishi's fury.
Tsugawa Taishi could tell that the young man opposite him had gained no pleasure from the slaughter, but neither was he restrained by any moral principles. The clan members he treasured were regarded as nothing in the other man's eyes.
Ignoring someone was the highest form of contempt.
Yuzhen truly did not know why the other side was so angry. Did this Clan Leader believe the rules of the ninja world allowed only them to attack other ninja clans, while other clans were forbidden from crossing the line and attacking his village?
He had chosen to fight this Clan Leader head-on because he had confidence in winning the battle.
After fighting the Tsugawa Clan for so long, Yuzhen knew that the clan possessed neither secret