The Sword of Kaigen

by M.L. Wang

“You know, Mamoru… you’ll be a man sometime soon. But just for today, let me be your mother and tell you in all my motherly certainty that everything is all right. The world is whole. You are on the right path. Everything is going to be all right.”

Some people called me selfish—and they were right—but I was honest with myself, and it made me unstoppable. I never had any doubt about why I was fighting, and there was nothing I couldn’t cut through.”

If she couldn’t fight for her own children, then who was she? What had she become?

Thank the Gods she was a monster.

This… you were my story…

My son, I’ll do it for you.

“It is enough. “It is enough. “It is enough. “It is enough,”