The Sword of Kaigen

by M.L. Wang

The only way to find that conviction you’re missing is to know beyond a doubt what you’re fighting for.”

Unintimidated, Misaki held his gaze. It had been too long since she had found the courage to fight for something. If she couldn’t fight for her own children, then who was she? What had she become?

“Surviving isn’t nothing, Katakouri-san,” Setsuko said. “We’re going to survive.”

What sort of a man closed his eyes to the world and called it clarity?

a person’s tragedy doesn’t define them or cancel all the good in their life.

Wholeness, she had learned, was not the absence of pain but the ability to hold it.