Everything is expected to be perfect, black and white—something that even Narumi, the best of them all, can't avoid.

  and human aesthetics, so that the most pragmatic warrior class also began to pursue phantom beasts that do not exist in the world.

  And a battle like tonight, which inexplicably suffered heavy casualties and was difficult to distinguish between victory and failure, was the biggest impact on their values.

  The ideal is black and white, but the reality always wanders in the gray field. Good things and bad things are not clear-cut, at first glance they are all the same. If they are bent on pure aesthetics, and see battles, campaigns, and even wars as simple black and white, then the only thing that awaits them is defeat in the face of more pragmatic opponents.

  Ideas that have been firmly formed cannot be leveraged by words alone, and only by experiencing a sufficiently violent impact can they trigger reflection.

  As for what kind of path he will embark on in the future, it can only depend on the individual.

  The 4,000-year-old country of the moon is now full of mountains and rains.

  But how many people are like the samurai of the Qingtian family, who are still obsessed with their own personal honor and life and death aesthetics, and cannot see the overall situation of the entire country.

  "Isn't there no army in this country? ”

  Her own disciple asked this question with her own acumen, which she probably did not know the underlying cause, and even if the sage knew everything, he did not have a share in it.

  "The sharpest knife is unbreakable. The shrine maidens used this as an excuse to ask the samurai to keep their mouths shut up, but fortunately, due to the chaos of the night and the chaos of the battlefield, many people fled, and only a few people from the core group were really present to know the situation.

  As the agents of the gods in the human world, they have the highest power after the royal family, and the samurai do not have any right to refuse the requests made by the shrine maidens.

  But even without the layer of identity, just the self-esteem of being a martial arts attendant made Narumi understand that this kind of oolong could not be poked out.

  As a top-level force, the shrine maidens who can use their divine power to strike at the enemy and the oni god clan who sweep away thousands of armies are the most powerful and deterrent weapons in Shinkyo. They can't lose, they can't lose control. Only eternal victory, and a glorious victory, can sustain the deterrent that can make the unscrupulous tremble at the mere release of a name.

  It's cold in the heights.

  The responsibility and pressure that it takes to stand in this top position are like the scars on the body of the ghost god named Terutsuki, and the dense layman is terrified at the first glance, but there is no other choice but to grit his teeth and insist and cover it with armor.

  It was evident that it had gone out of control, that the pressure on a small number of people had obviously been too great, and that it had indeed failed, that a small number of elite troops had been treated with crowd tactics, and that Xinjing, the sharpest knife that had always won, had met an iron plate that could not be chopped.

  The opponent found a way to deal with it, but they still had to do it.

  "There are no soldiers available in this country. ”

  Mira's keen perception is correct, it is true that the Land of the Moon has a large number of samurai troops, but Shinkyo will not use them lightly.

  The mission carried out by the witch and the ghost god clan is something of the nature of "domestic affairs, suppressing bandits and fighting for public order", and the country is unified and must be unified. Only a "very few" are willing to make trouble, so they cannot use large-scale troops, and can only use a small number of elites to deal with them.

  The large-scale mobilization of samurai troops for the Northern Expedition is to say to those enemies who are eyeing the enemy:

  "Our country is going into a civil war. ”

  Xinjing's top brass are not stupid.

  After more than 100 years of exchanges, they knew very well what the empire was planning to do in the recent rebellion instigated by the Lamanite missionaries, but it was precisely because of this that they could not fall into the Lamanite attempt to fan the flames and let the war expand.

  We must adhere to the caliber of "suppressing bandits and law and order" and control the conflict to a very small scale. Once the situation develops and a large-scale military force is mobilized to wage a civil war between the north and the south, it will force the already wavering Chinese and scholars to think that they need to take sides, and then expand into chaos on a national scale.

  This is exactly what the White Church and the Padrosi Empire want to see.

  So they only have this one knife to use.

  And the knife is already scarred.

  Piercing the facts, saying that the shrine maidens and the ghosts and gods are no longer able to do their best and are just trying to cover up the reality of all this?—— what is the point of this except to show off themselves.