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.

small threats

always deal with

Silence.

obviously is, but what

had already been dealt with after injuring him heavily. At that point, he had no longer been a threat. After all, he

a mistake. Just like me, he has plenty of time to learn

a lesson was the correct course of action, but when the lesson had gone too far, it has

look at the person in front of me but

between different

thinking, Shang turned around and slowly grabbed his two beast

attention in the future. I need to be mindful of the consequences of my

out of this mess because an outsider intervened. In the future, I am bound to come into a

and I have to accept that I have lost control. Even though my actions have appeared correct at that

and I have to keep in

the building and went into his

Shang sat on his bed, only looking at

mind had returned to calm with surprising

almost like

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

to be more mindful of my future. I can't ruin my future with actions committed in the heat of the

but Shang shoved

to be

returned and

to always

image came back and was pushed away

himself that he had to remain

returned, but

That wasn't him anymore.

in

was his new

would not

the past in

shoving the image into the back of his

wouldn't allow it