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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="c6c0b6ac6719df3cb1d31dbc9caaa407"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"All Knowing POV; LOCATION: Japan Date: December 1st (now two months after last chapter.)/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="c59fad7276bd75cf2986b3bafed84714"It's been about a week since Daniel found out about the Kage family murder. Before he had gone in search of the missing survivor, he had visited the grave of the two killed to make peace. He had a ritual of visiting once a month, this has been happening for five months. Danny, however, has not spent this time moping./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="2671a4bb6f2dc87ad707689c98d233c2"He hadn't actually planned to form a whole clan or anything, it just kinda happened. It had all started with him finding 6 of his closest childhood friends. After that, those friend's friends joined the group and it eventually became something that, with the proper sources, background check, and skills, anyone willing and heart-set taking down the Dokugan Ryu were excepted. It was mostly filled with people seeking vengeance or justice. There were about 100 accounted for members. Every once in awhile during a raid a random vigilante will show up to help. They are people who wish to help, but also don't want to dedicate themselves to the clan. They were rather useful, more times then not./p
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