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Durin's Diary

Durin stroked the black cat on the armrest of his chair, sitting on the black leather sofa. Through the glasses perched on his nose, his gaze passed over the long table in front of him and settled on the man kneeling on the carpet: "I understand, you've made money in Naples, your business has been very successful, and you've led a happy life. You've had those secret police, friends in both the law and the underground, and even the Royal Family speaking on your behalf." "You don't need a friend like me, I know that. You're afraid of owing me a favor, and you don't want to get involved in troubles." "But now you come to me and say, 'I beg you, Mr. Durin of the Corleon family, please help me seek justice, so that my life and my family will not suffer and sink into despair.' Yet, in your eyes, I was nothing more than a second-rate artist involved in movies and music. Even at the brink of death, you still show me such disrespect, not even willing to call me by my title... Keeper of Secrets."

Half-step Purgatory · Bandes dessinées et romans graphiques
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Chapter 178: New Shoots on the Old Tree Called History

Durin did not extend his hand.

The romantic spirit of the youth could make them forget their suffering, view sacrifice as the best recompense, to the extent that they forgot that this filthy world was not worth cleansing with their blood, not worth sacrificing their lives for.

Durin had seen too much injustice—most of the wars in history were merely the antics of some age-old beings fighting for resources, power, and land.

Like in the First World War, millions of young men fought for their respective countries, and their youth fell in each other's pools of blood, many dying for the empty promises of those age-old beings.

They were sons from good families, yet they died for the greed and desire of others.

Durin did not fear sacrifice, but he feared for his brother, feared for these young people around him—the greatest phoenix rising from the ashes was not non-existent, but so rare that Durin considered the Northern Doctrine not worthy of being called great.