"What will you choose?"
Tokugawa Shingen watched Lin Qing quietly, waiting for his answer.
"Choose?"
Lin Qing's smile slowly faded, and golden flames flickered to life across his skin.
Once again, he heard the world "breathing."
Ideals, resistance, sacrifice.
Deaths, some heroic and some tragic, were unfolding in every corner of the city. And behind it all, Lin Qing heard—
"the breath of betrayal."
Lin Qing's gaze grew colder. "You think..."
"Who has the right to set me a test?"
Tokugawa Shingen pointed out the window. "But those people..."
Lin Qing gave a soft laugh. "You, them, and those who are hiding in the shadows, watching this turmoil like insects—you all seem to have misunderstood me.
"I'm simply doing what I believe is right.
"This world doesn't treat people like people. I think that's wrong, so I'm going to change it.
"Some people do wrong and escape punishment. I can't stand it, so I punish them."
Right and wrong were matters of his own judgment.
People's hearts, their pride, their reputations... Those were merely things that naturally came with Lin Qing doing what was right.
"The people outside have been used and deceived. They're truly pitiful, and I'll find a way to save them. But I won't pretend I'm an omnipotent god."
Lin Qing could understand the commoners who had turned their blades against the rich and the samurai.
Their anger at the corrupt system was a good thing.
If even that anger disappeared, then this world would truly be beyond saving.
But that innocent, sincere anger shouldn't be turned into a tool.
Warsaw City needed a revolution, but not tonight, and not in this form. Nor should its instigator be a schemer who planned to profit from it.
Lin Qing took a deep breath. He had made up his