The Daidoji agent landed silently beside him. "That was a breach of protocol. They'll hear of this."
The boy took the pieces, nodded once, and ran off into the festival crowds. like a dragon gaiden crack
Joryu knelt. For a moment, the mask slipped entirely. The boy saw not the emotionless agent, but a tired, haunted man who had given up everything to protect children just like him. A man who hadn't held a child's hand in years. The Daidoji agent landed silently beside him
Joryu lit a cigarette, the flame briefly illuminating the scar tissue on his chest. "Let them." Joryu knelt
Not the vending machine glass. Not the pavement. It was the seal Joryu had hammered over his own heart.
In the space between one breath and the next, Joryu moved. He didn't think. He didn't calculate the political fallout or the Daidoji agent watching him from a nearby rooftop. He simply became the Dragon again.
