Chapter 9 · free to read
Trial by blade. The oldest law in the tournament, and the only one Genroku had not yet thought to buy.
Nineteen exchanges. Not one of them mine. Let them count.
The crowd has no vote. The crowd has never had a vote. It threw one anyway.
Reinstated: one schoolless boy. Erased: the only person in nine years who ever told the truth in that room.
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