25. The Darker Path (Reprise)

Part Three: Lady Min

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The end of the path of honor looked like this: a filthy corner of southwest Heian, crawling with peasants and rice farmers and brewers, thatched roof houses, shoddy lean-tos, and more mud and blood and refuse than imaginable. It was in this dirty section of the city that the dregs of the empire gathered: the poor and downtrodden members of the ever-expanding Greater East Orient Co-Prosperity Sphere. The fledgling Nipponese empire.

In other words, the oppressed.