The ticking grows pervasive and tiresome. However, it is not lost on me that it dissipates and perhaps disappears during conversation. A warning, perhaps, that our time here is not meant to be spent idly
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It was carelessness on my part to believe that the shogunate intended the Itto-ryu as their koukenjo-the official school of swordsmanship for the Bakufu. I did not create my Itto-ryu to lord over shiftless ronin. However, to fail to seize this chance would thwart my grandfather’s ambition, and thus, I took it
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