NOVEL WEB Chapter 29: Chapter 29: The Road Forward
Echigo Province – Leaving the Mountain Pass, Year 9 of Tenbun (1540 AD)
The snow had stopped falling.
The sky above was clear once more.
And the battlefield—
The place where he had once fought as a weapon, where he had stood against the Tiger of Kai
Was now behind him.
For the first time, he was walking away.
Not as a soldier.Not as a sword.
But as himself.
A person who had chosen his own name.
A person who would decide his own fate.
"Do you regret it?"
Uesugi Kenshin's voice was calm as ever.
They walked side by side, leaving the frozen mountain pass behind.
The Takeda forces had retreated.
Harunobu had let him live.
But that did not mean the war was over.
If anything—
This was only the beginning.
The boy exhaled slowly.
"No."
"I do not regret it."
Kenshin studied him carefully.
"Even though you will now be hunted?"
The boy closed his eyes for a moment.
Then he opened them again.
"I was always hunted."
"At least now, I am hunted for my own choices."
"Not for someone else's."
The Dragon of Echigo smiled faintly.
"Then you are ready."
Kai was no longer his home.
Takeda Harunobu was no longer his master.
But the world was still filled with war.
Still filled with men like Harunobu, who believed that power was the only truth.
Still filled with men who only saw weapons, not people.
The boy had spent his life as a blade.
Now—
He would decide what that blade would be used for.
Not for conquest.Not for ambition.
But for something greater.
"What will you do now?"
Kenshin's question was simple.
But the boy—
No, the person he had chosen to be—
"I will fight."
"But this time—"
"It will be for something I believe in."
Kenshin's gaze softened.
"Then walk with me."
"And perhaps, you will find what it is you are searching for."
The boy nodded.
Because for the first time—
The road ahead was his.
And step by step—
He would carve his own path.
[Fated Death: Severed.]You are no longer bound to Takeda Harunobu. You have chosen your own reason to fight. Your fate is now yours to shape.
The war still looms.
But this time, you will decide how it ends.