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Incunabulum

Definition: the earliest stages or first traces of anything.

An excerpt from the diary of Yukishiro Tomoe.

He feeds stray cats.

It is a simple thing, one of the smallest parts of his day, squeezed between sleeping against the wall and his assignments delivered in the black envelopes. I don't understand. Why does a hitokiri, a murderer who makes it rain blood, care if a few mangy animals go hungry?

Why would Kiyosato's killer do something like that?