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Nine Lives
I saw that there were many ways in which people classify themselves. The most blatant of them all are those of the oppressors and of the oppressed. If there is an ideal I can believe in, it would be the abolishment of this classification. What limited time I have left in this world, I will dedicate to you and your ideals. "Come, Kuro! Let us go!" Now that I am unchained, I can fight. Because you believe in me, I can fight. Someday we will reach that distant sky... (The Rat-Killer's Declaration)