What is the bigger picture then, Master Chen Gong? Are we truly fighting for peace in the land? I have followed Lord Lu Bu through thick and thin; I pledge my allegiance to him and I will follow him to the next world if I must, but fealty does not mean that I have lost my senses.
[It’s hard for him to spit out his true thoughts; hard because it feels wrong to speak ill of his lord, hard because it’s to admit that Zhang Liao has been wrong all this time, and that he’s been fighting for all the wrong reasons.
The warrior does not shirk reproach, he reminds himself. He must know when to admit his faults. Yet it is a bitter pill for him to swallow, to finally admit to Chen Gong his greatest fear.]
We do not fight for the good of the people or to restore the Han. We fight because we seek war. We seek the challenge that the other warring lords provide us, and we care not for those we trample, drunk in our own blood lust and power.
There is no honor, in such a fight. Only selfish desires and reckless abandon.
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Date: 2014-07-08 12:07 am (UTC)[It’s hard for him to spit out his true thoughts; hard because it feels wrong to speak ill of his lord, hard because it’s to admit that Zhang Liao has been wrong all this time, and that he’s been fighting for all the wrong reasons.
The warrior does not shirk reproach, he reminds himself. He must know when to admit his faults. Yet it is a bitter pill for him to swallow, to finally admit to Chen Gong his greatest fear.]
We do not fight for the good of the people or to restore the Han. We fight because we seek war. We seek the challenge that the other warring lords provide us, and we care not for those we trample, drunk in our own blood lust and power.
There is no honor, in such a fight. Only selfish desires and reckless abandon.