#8 by Carnifex

The very first thing the Empire of the Rising Sun had done, its first official act, was to close its borders to every foreign person on pain of death. A week the borders had been closed. A week of any bounty hunter seen outside of Shikoku being attacked by Nippon forces. A week for the Outcasts to have free reign on Kyushu and Honshu with no foreign eyes to see their deeds. A week of covert attacks and mistrust. And then, without any apparent cause, they had opened their borders again. Many hunters had already moved away to other more accepting houses. Some who hadn’t left yet still left. Carnifex’s first move had been to go outcast hunting, not difficult in a house where half of the planets were crawling with the cardimine suckers. Not much had changed in Kusari though, they were still eyeing the other houses angrily and Carnifex had even had a Nippon officer watch him for several minutes without saying a word while he was on a job in Shikoku. Many things about this new Kusari seemed wrong. Carnifex [b]hoped[/b] that the government really was opening the borders as a show of good faith. However he [b]knew[/b] that anyone with all the firepower of the Outcasts at their backs could not think to turn back now.

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