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Soga: I need to ask you something. Do you have any idea why your father sealed the Enchanted Blades?
Chihiro: …Because of the mistake that they call the Malediction.
Soga: …Mistake?
Chihiro: Massacring them post-war… The children, at that…
Soga: …“What my brother-in-law taught you,” isn’t it? The children of the Shokoku shared the same blood as the invaders— they were taught the same things.
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Soga: I murdered “everyone that could be considered an enemy”.. Well, regardless. This isn’t something that should be looked at linearly, and so I welcome diversity in thought and opinion. Right, so that new Enchanted Blade.. Why was it created?
Chihiro: ..To destroy the Enchanted Blades.
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Soga: Ah.. Got it.
Chihiro (thinking): This is bad.. That reaction is not good. Why didn’t you tell me that the Sword Saint is my relative..? But I think I understand now.. Why it was better for me to never know. The disgust at realizing that the murderer would be someone so close to me, someone I had no memories of ever meeting. The discomfort of such a man treating me like we’re family.. Such things didn’t matter to me anymore..
Soga: Apologies for stacking so many questions on top of one another. But calling the Malediction a mistake.. That would mean that the world that exists now, after the Enchanted Blades have been sealed, is “the correct” one, yes?
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Chihiro (thinking): His killing intent..
Chihiro: ..N-no..
Chihiro (thinking): The sword that should’ve been sheathed long ago.. Yet my throat feels cold – so cold it makes me feel that if I move, I die. That.. That is how terrifying it is..
Soga: The Enchanted Blades are born with purpose. To eradicate evil, and to protect the weak.
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Soga: I will fulfill that goal.
Soga: That Sazanami..
Chihiro: ..?
Soga: A remnant of the clan with equal power to that of its clan head. Kill him, and the clan controlling the Rakuzaichi ends for good.