“Who are you, Jason Asano?” “A person who’s tired of dealing with people more powerful than himself. I’m just a guy looking to be an ordinary adventurer of his own damn rank. I want to take some contracts, help some people. Dashing heroics and witty banter; maybe a monologuing villain or two. I have no political ambitions and I do not appreciate being dragged into someone else’s.” “They don’t send someone like me after ordinary adventurers,” Trenchant said. “They send me after people who make trouble.” “Trouble made me first,” Jason said. “You tell those people who sent you that this puppet
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