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He took the hand.

Kurogane wept. Then he smiled.

And for the first time in sixty years, the old man finally returned—not to the village, not to honor, but to the boy who had never stopped calling him home. gaki modotte

On the fourth night, the rain stopped. The moon came out. The small hand rose again, not muddy this time, but clean. Small. Real. He took the hand