Sword God in a World of Magic

For a while, Shang only remained on the spot, thinking.

'Don't let my past ruin my future,' Shang repeated to himself in his mind.

To Shang, these words had a profound meaning.

When he thought about these words, the night with the bandits returned.

'My past.'

Shang felt like the Water Mage had been right in basically everything she said.

But at the same time, Shang also felt that her words were a bit too simple.

'Ruthlessness is still a necessity in this world. Not dealing with threats might make them even bigger in the future.'

'Leaving the battlefield on the battlefield, huh?'

'I'm not sure if there is a place that's not a battlefield in this world.'

'The teachers say that the academy is safe, but is it truly safe? Have there been no instances of students dying to other students?'

'I don't believe that.'

Shang looked at the place where the unconscious student had just been.

'However, was he truly a threat?'

'Have I not risked the threat becoming an even bigger one by trying to get rid of this small threat? Before my actions, he might have been the only threat, and his threat had been minuscule.'

'However, what about his family? If their child had received some permanent damage, wouldn't they search for revenge? Wouldn't have this little threat turned into a bigger threat then?'

For a while, Shang tried to wrap his head around his new understanding.

After the night of the bandits, Shang's mind had focused on dealing with all the small threats to stop bigger threats from appearing.

dealing with small threats had

right to always deal with

Silence.

is, but what

that point, he had no longer been a threat. After

a kid that made a mistake. Just like me, he has

action, but when the lesson had gone too far, it has caused

at the person in front of me but also at the surroundings. Killing him would have only had

to learn how to differentiate between different kinds of threats and their

while of thinking, Shang turned around and slowly

need to pay more attention in the future. I need

I am bound to come into a situation where no one is there to stop

I have to accept that I have lost control. Even though my actions have appeared correct at that moment, they have not

to keep in mind that

building and

the two beast sacks down, Shang sat on his

to calm

like the incident

of the crushed face beneath him shouting for its mother returned for an instant, but

future. I can't ruin my future with actions committed

image returned, but Shang shoved it

to be in

returned and

to always remain in

image came back and was pushed

kept repeating to himself that he had

returned, but Shang always pushed

That wasn't him anymore.

in

his

would not lose

would leave the past

kept shoving the image into the

allow it to