This is a work with different perspectives from different eras
In the beginning, I always took the same stance as the protagonist Torfin, always expecting revenge by killing Asherath. With the 11-year journey of Torfin, he followed the pirates to slash each other's enemies, and as the pirates slaughtered the village, he began to hate this group of pirates extremely.
Then I found that this group of pirates also had their own village, which was similar to Torfin's home village. The young people of the village were eager to join the pirates to kill enemies and plunder...
The last duel between Torfin and Ashirat, Asherat said that Torfin was really an idiot, he spent 10 years without killing himself, and he only took 2 years of forbearance to take advantage of himself Father killed him while he was sleeping.
Before his death, Biao Lun said that he didn't hold any grudge against the person who stabbed him seriously. Anyway, the pirates are you who cut me today, and I cut you tomorrow. There is nothing to hold grudges, and the only one who can hold grudges is Tolfen. .
I began to realize that we couldn't look at the world of that era with the eyes of modern people. In the cultural environment of hacking and killing each other and thinking that only the dead can go to the Hall of Valhalla, why would Torfin hold revenge?
He didn't hate Asherat and wanted to simply kill him. He was humiliated by his father who had won the duel but was killed, so he wouldn't be a "smart man" like Asherat. Forbearance, so he must prove his father's victory through a duel.
Torfin and Asherat chose two paths from the beginning, Asherat wanted to be a "smart man", but he would do anything for the purpose. What Torfin pursued was not just the result. The result of the duel was already there, and Torfin just wanted to use his own strength to prove it again.
Having said that, if Torfin chose to hide his knife with a smile like Asherat, and to obediently look for an opportunity to assassinate secretly, Asherath, who had walked the same road, might not be able to see it, and the outcome of the two of them might not be the same. This is now.
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