"Wakasei, have you figured out the true meaning of the word 'justice'?" Uesugi Etsu asked. "In your view, who should define justice?"
Minamoto Wakasei was stunned, then said slowly, "In my view, justice should be defined by the collective will of the entire Clan. Whatever allows the Clan to rise and prosper is justice—that is the will a Clan Leader must carry out... Ever since I succeeded to the position of Clan Leader, I have told myself this in my heart every moment, but I don't know where things went wrong."
"Wakasei, I cannot arbitrarily tell you what is right and what is wrong, because my own tenure lasted only eleven years, and from beginning to end I never became a qualified Clan Leader." Uesugi Etsu shook his head with self-deprecating humor. "Instead, over the sixty-odd years since I fled the Clan, looking back at this vast and complex Clan, I have gradually come to many realizations. Perhaps this is what they mean by 'the onlooker sees most clearly.' Although I cannot tell you what the right path is, Wakasei, I can tell you a piece of the Clan's history that has never been spoken of."
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