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Soga: It’s been such a long time since I’ve gotten to have a conversation. Ah.. AH! Is the outside still cold as I remember it?

Yura: …

Soga: What’s wrong?

Yura: The scholars all agreed that you were in a strong sense of delirium..

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Soga: After murdering the lives of countless, “delirium” is the best they could come up with? What a bunch of self-serving nonsense..

Soga: Let me be very clear about this: I followed through with my own ideals. Guided by my unwavering conviction. I was the one who massacred everyone. All in order to protect this country.. And its people.

Yura (thinking): There is such indifference to his words..

Yura: I must admit, that surprises me.

Yura (thinking): The atmosphere around him.. It’s very hazy, yet still clearcut. Even after being confined for over 18 years in a “void” like this, his mind still remains human. An ordinary person wouldn’t survive this without losing their sanity..

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Yura (thinking): And more than anything.. That means he unleashed the Malediction without the Shinuchi taking any effect on him..

Yura: Was it also “the same will” that stopped my body from being eaten alive?

Soga: Yes. I want to know some things about the outside world. You’re the first person I’ve talked to in a while, after all. I’m still figuring out how close or far away I should stay.

Soga: …Is my big brother IN LAW*.. Is Rokuhira Kunishige dead?

Yura: …I was the one who orchestrated that murder.

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Soga: Ah.. I knew it. The Enchanted Blades started to move, of course that’d be the case.. And this time.. You’ve come to claim my life aswell?

Yura: ..Yes. That was the intent.

Soga: …

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Yura: I am to “affirm” the Malediction. I came here in order to right the wrongs of you “heroes”.. That day.. I found my truth.

Soga: …

Yura: The solution created by the Enchanted Blades: The power “tidy up” this world of ours. Yet Rokuhira Kunishige rejcted the malediction, and sealed the Enchanted Blades..