🍁Nine Ancient Obelisks

The Shinobi remains silent for a long time, surveying the mountains of corpses beneath the walls, then replies: - Yes. It could have been... Sometimes I remember your backstory, and the opinion I gave you about it, and I realize that over time, following your own advice becomes more difficult. Someone once told me that going through life means accepting loss. And it seems that at certain moments, I've seen the world, but each time it finds new ways to temper your ardor. And you understand that despair won't help at all, but there's no energy left for anything constructive, only for resentment – towards it, others, and yourself. Is it true that all our ancestors lived like this, and our descendants will too? Where is your famous progress, scientific and social?

But I don't see what will happen next... Will this wall become a place of endless battles?

- That's what it was built for. I don't know, I don't even have any guesses. Maybe we'll inflict a serious defeat on them, maybe some internal discontent will accumulate and the situation will fizzle out. Maybe we'll be pressured on two fronts. Or maybe it will all slowly freeze over for a quarter of a century. The only way to find out is to survive this time.