⠀ ⠀ ❝ Ask more specific questions. Life always changes. ❞ ⠀

⠀ ⠀ ❝ Life has been slow, maybe I’ve killed all the good fighters. ❞ ⠀

⠀ ⠀ ❝ They were an opponent, they chose to fight and lost. ❞ ⠀

⠀ ⠀ ❝ In my culture, yes. They fought well, I hold no ill will towards those men. ❞ ⠀

⠀ ⠀ ❝ After every man I kill, I pray for them to have a good afterlife. You may dislike my culture, but at least I don’t shit in communal troughs. ❞ ⠀

⠀ ⠀ ❝ Name things you admire about my culture, I’ve only heard you say things you dislike. ❞ ⠀

⠀ ⠀ ❝ You have a very foreign view. To us warriors, our lives are built on fighting. It itself is an art, and giving the opponent an honorable death, is beautiful itself. ❞ ⠀ Death is something every samurai, ronin, or anyone set on the path have accepted to occur. ⠀

⠀ ⠀ ❝ It can wash me clean. ❞ ⠀ Looking back at the old man, walking under the tree and ruffling through water out of his hair. ⠀

⠀ ⠀ Leaning against the rough bark of the tree, looking up at its branches. ⠀ ❝ Reminds me of a story they tell about me, though I won’t tell you if it’s true. ❞ ⠀ Chuckling, looking back over to the old man. ⠀

⠀ ⠀ What is a “pookie”? ⠀

⠀ ⠀ Young people these days…. ⠀

⠀ ⠀ Odd. I don’t get it, I’m young but not young enough to know these things? ⠀

⠀ ⠀ ❝ Have I waited too long, to pick back up the blade? ❞ ⠀

⠀ ⠀ Is profusely bleeding from his forehead. ⠀