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It had been sixty years since he abandoned his son in the flooded fields of the southern war. The boy had been five. A gaki. A pest. A burden. "Stay here," Kurogane had said, tying a rice ball to the child's belt. "I'll come back."

He took the hand.

He never did.

But the children did not know the truth. They did not know that every night, when the rain stopped, a small, muddy hand would reach out from the puddle beside his wooden leg. Not to harm him. To hold his finger. gaki modotte

On the fourth night, the rain stopped. The moon came out. The small hand rose again, not muddy this time, but clean. Small. Real. It had been sixty years since he abandoned

Kurogane wept. Then he smiled.