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I knew.
I knew this day would come.
Ever since I made that judgment eleven years ago, I knew that this day would eventually arrive.
I left home at a young age, abandoned the family business, and devoted myself to scholarship, hoping only to end my days in the study. Little did I expect to have the fortune to apply my learning, to contribute to society and receive such considerable honor from Sunset; I am grateful for my life without regrets.
Yet human affairs are complicated and difficult to untangle, not something that can be clarified by scholarly studies alone.
For over forty years, as the Grand Inquisitor of Emerald City, I have experienced war and peace, acted without the slightest negligence, served justice without concealing personal interests. Still, anxiety and pain ceaselessly tormented me. Every time I put down the gavel and removed my official robe, I could not help but repeatedly ponder:
