Someone went down the back path before dawn, the morning of the first frost. I'd been weighing it for two months, and the answer came from their side first, not mine.

• Toba SaeThis castle isn't yours alone, Brother. It belongs to three hundred people. What Saeki counted first wasn't betrayal, it was a headcount.
  Toba TsuyuI count people too. It's only that my register counts from the very first line, and the name written there is your brother's wife.
• Kudo RokuroWill you take her head?
  Toba TsuyuIf I had, I wouldn't be writing this right now. I only burned the document laid out on the hall floor.