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Chapter 111 - Chapter 19.4: unedited

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The moon rose, a sliver of bone in a blood-red sky. The field below the fortress was a grotesque tapestry of the dead. The groans of the dying rose and fell like a ghastly tide, a constant, horrifying counterpoint to the clang of hammers from the forge. Ren's machines were being repaired, their mechanisms cleaned, their springs re-tensioned. The war machine was rearming itself.

There were no songs of victory. There were no cheers. The people of the Tsurugi Domain moved like ghosts, their faces pale and streaked with grime and blood. They tended to their wounded, their movements practiced and efficient, but their eyes were hollow. They had survived, but they had looked into the abyss, and the abyss had looked back, wearing a face of iron and springs.

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