Hundred Yue Assassin Group (3)

"It's the Hundred Yue Assassin Group..."

Zhang Liang, the future sage strategist who was still very young, sighed and pressed a hand to his forehead.

Boys at this stage of life were always innocent.

And pure.

If they said they loved their country, then they loved their country.

For that love, they could even abandon their family.

Of course, this abandoning of one's family was different from Itachi in the Fire Shadow anime.

Here, abandoning one's family meant that when his ideals clashed with his family's interests, Zhang Liang would dare to cast himself out of the clan, strike his name from the family register, and assist Han Fei as a free man in creating the world and empire he envisioned. Though such a choice would still earn him condemnation, plenty of people in this era would step forward and denounce Zhang Liang as mad, as someone who had forgotten his ancestors and betrayed his roots, as unfilial. But compared to Itachi's extreme methods, Zhang Liang's approach was still rational.

Besides, youth itself was capital.

Or rather, the world was always more forgiving toward the young.

A fledgling eagle had to spread its wings and soar.

Only, the ways they flew were vastly different.

What Zhang Liang intended to do could easily be dressed up as going out into the world to gain experience.

Never mind whether that experience carried a hint of rebellion.

In any case, as long as the Zhang Clan acknowledged it as such.

Then Zhang Liang's actions would be considered just that.

Whether he was truly out gaining experience was not even important.

Of course, all that was merely hypothetical. Zhang Liang currently only possessed such resolve; circumstances had not yet deteriorated to the point where he had to sever ties with his family in such