004 | Audio

[rivalism]

The first practice of the year, the first brush stroke of the year... My first actions of the year have been flawless. There is no doubt that I will achieve perfection this year.

Christmas is now behind us. That creature The pet The pink hedgehog received a hammer that was dear to her apparently, and my shinai has been returned. With the head of

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[hop_toit_udonge]

Perfection... really? In this place?

[rivalism]

Yes. There was not a single flaw in my first calligraphy of the year, either. You see how it has been predicted now?

[hop_toit_udonge]

... Really.

[rivalism]

Yes.

[hop_toit_udonge]

How quaint.

[rivalism]

Is it hard to believe? I cannot fail.

[hop_toit_udonge]

Cannot allow yourself, perhaps, but you, like any human, are capable of failure.

[rivalism]

Failure is impossible as long as I maintain circumstances as they currently are.

[hop_toit_udonge]

And those circumstances, as things go, will not remain entirely in your control.

[rivalism]

I still cannot fail.

[hop_toit_udonge]

Whether that is noble or foolish is yet to be determined, I suppose.

[rivalism]

I assure you that it's not foolish.

[hop_toit_udonge]

Well of course you do.

[rivalism]

The only thing foolish will be the look on Masamune's face when I defeat him.

[hop_toit_udonge]

And what then?

[rivalism]

Then I will have achieved perfection.