Soul

Chapter Eight

The Western Edge: Time

It is 1914, and the world is at war, a war that has been coming since the gun smoke cleared away from central Europe at the end of the last century. Out of the divided West comes an artless silence following on generations of interference and display, and across China and the stranded islands of Micronesia a new wave of tension is rising.

Cold thoughts penetrate the Land of the Rising Sun. Greedy hands and thoughts reach out as they always do, seeking new lands, new resources, new wealth and new objects of envy. Japan has made her choice, and the choice is violence, new weapons, the second great adventure of the Imperial Army.

It is 1914, and that Army has crossed the sea to the west. There are many generals, many captains, many lieutenants, but only one is prepared for the fight that waits across the water.

Only one has been waiting for this day since the moment he was born – and before.

Only one is Date Masamune.

In China, there are not many who resist, not many who are prepared; the land is groaning from a century of oppression, a century of opium, a century of delusions and cultural conquest; China, ancient bastion of civilized man, is weary. She has put on the headdress of a ruling Empress for the last time, but there is still life in her; there is still fight.

The fight has many names – some made in victory, some in defeat.

Sanada Yukimura intends for his to shine brightest of them all.

A/N: A new life, and new chance...let's see what happens, shall we?

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