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"This is the mark of our pledge, and it is also my challenge to you."
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"All my wisdom is hidden within this stone dumbbell."
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He remembers meeting the young woman with the billowing sleeves, remembers the way she acted solemn, yet seemed joyful when she presented him this token.
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What a silly notion. There was no formal contract between them. They were merely two people walking the same path for their own reasons...
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But he remembers the scene of their first meeting anyway, when the Glaze Lilies were still in abundant bloom.
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He also remembers those words she spoke at the end — again, amid the Glaze Lilies.
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"Those little people are as small and fragile as dust."
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"Because they are so small, they know not when they will lose their lives to disaster or strife, and so they are afraid."
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"Because they are afraid, they try so hard to become more intelligent. This I understand."
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"So I thought that since there is such a gulf between us in strength, I should use technique and wisdom instead."
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"With your brawn and my brains, this city would surely become a great one."
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Her final smile was a lonely one, even as her form dissolved into the finest dust.
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"It seems that our journey together has come to an end. As for that stone dumbbell, forget about it, would you?"
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"This is the mark of our pledge, and it is also my challenge to you."
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"All my wisdom is hidden within this stone dumbbell."
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"If you can unlock it—"
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Many years passed, and he was never able to unlock that dumbbell, nor would he ever learn what might have followed that sentence.
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Over the years, the wild Glaze Lilies, too, dwindled till at last they were no more.
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