To accomplish anything, one must be sure in their actions and never waver; Reiji had understood this from childhood, raised in the shadow of geniuses.

When it came time to become a man at thirteen, he had forgotten to hesitate; when it came time to wage a war, he had refused to question and doubt himself.

As Reiji stared down the man he had worked so hard to defeat, he found himself remembering a childhood that should have been forgotten; even so he refused his hands to shake as he struck the killing blow.