The truth is,” I said, voice low but firm, “if we’re going to understand who the League really is, we have to dig into the past first. Everything we’ve been fighting, all the shadows moving behind the curtains—it didn’t start with us. It’s been decades in the making.” That means we will have to head back to Japan today . I stared out at the city lights streaking past the windshield, my reflection fractured across the glass, and felt the weight of it pressing down. “I still haven’t paid my dues to fix what my father left behind. There are debts, obligations, secrets buried in places no one alive remembers—but they’re ours to uncover.”Jasmine glanced at me, eyebrows slightly raised, but she didn’t interrupt. She knew better than anyone that once I started down this path, I didn’t stop for hesitation or fear. But we need to stop at some point.“But before we can even think about that,” I continued, voice tightening with a mix of determination and fury, “we have to figure out how to und
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