{ "dataList": [ { "id": 0, "content": "The world is abound with things of beauty." }, { "id": 1, "content": "The scattering moonlight. The blooming red plum blossoms." }, { "id": 2, "content": "Among all that is beautiful in this world... Faust considers these two the finest of them all." }, { "id": 3, "content": "... Faust is confident that she has read nearly every book in existence; no knowledge may escape Faust's grasp." }, { "id": 4, "content": "Even still, to me... nothing else comes close to these two." }, { "id": 5, "content": "Regardless..." }, { "id": 6, "content": "I am okay. I can create new things with the strokes of my brush, put my thoughts to paper." }, { "id": 7, "content": "... We are to leave this home behind soon." }, { "id": 8, "content": "S Corp. can no longer be redeemed." }, { "id": 9, "content": "The deluge of corruption, pouring from the headwaters and perverting every strand of the waterways of this river, cannot be stemmed." }, { "id": 10, "content": "We are but scholars of the martial arts; we cannot be a levee, let alone a dam to stop that flow." }, { "id": 11, "content": "Yet, there are virtuous ones who seek to purify the rivers of these putrefactions." }, { "id": 12, "content": "We... or, at least our mentor... felt that we must help them." }, { "id": 13, "content": "It may have been his personal sense of justice. Perhaps it was his own way of providing us with a last bastion to save our homeland." }, { "id": 14, "content": "I have not inquired him, for he is a man of few words." }, { "id": 15, "content": "I suppose his intentions behind this action matters not when we have already failed. We could not stop the levee from leaking." }, { "id": 16, "content": "The flood took us, who stood next to the levee to defend it... and it left us no choice but to abandon our home." }, { "id": 17, "content": "It was no easy decision to leave the Nest behind." }, { "id": 18, "content": "The Blade Lineage under our mentor's guidance were all small feathers, each minor officials of their own." }, { "id": 19, "content": "S Corp. sent the Ch'unokkun after the mentor..." }, { "id": 20, "content": "We have lost many fellows in the process. Yet I must consider ourselves lucky; though our forces have dwindled, we were allowed to convene under the same banner once again." }, { "id": 21, "content": "... One day, I would like to pen a letter under the moonlight again." }, { "id": 22, "content": "Mm. Before my brush with death does memories of the past return to me." }, { "id": 23, "content": "So I wield this blade to protect my fellows, to prepare a new home for us." }, { "id": 24, "content": "Though the red plum blossoms wilt with time and lose their beauty, I shall bloom them nonetheless. So that this fleeting moment may be treasured." }, { "id": 25, "content": "... How long has it been since we have departed our Nest?" }, { "id": 26, "content": "Though I write not under the moonlight, I had a brief moment to write with my brush." }, { "id": 27, "content": "My fellows have diligently sought a new home for us and led us to the Backstreets of T Corp...." }, { "id": 28, "content": "... Yet it was already occupied by a different Syndicate." }, { "id": 29, "content": "It need not be said that conflict was inevitable." }, { "id": 30, "content": "Mm." }, { "id": 31, "content": "Something casts its shadow over the moon." }, { "id": 32, "content": "They call themselves the Heug-un... Dark cloud." }, { "id": 33, "content": "The cloud may eclipse the moon for a brief moment, indeed." }, { "id": 34, "content": "But..." }, { "id": 35, "content": "When the wind blows, and when time passes, the cloud will scatter like any other." }, { "id": 36, "content": "And before the majesty of the moon, the cloud is as insignificant as a speck of dust." }, { "id": 37, "content": "This cloud shall be cast from the skies like the splendid shower of plum blossom petals." }, { "id": 38, "content": "It may be by my hands, our mentor's... or another Salsu's." }, { "id": 39, "content": "Whoever it may be, the outcome is inevitable." }, { "id": 40, "content": "The cloud shall scatter, and red plum blossoms shall bloom from our foes." }, { "id": 41, "content": "As it all should be." } ] }