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Questionable Questing

Valette-Serafina
Valette-Serafina
Yep.

And fucking Kurama. That was such utter bullshit.
Grosstoad
Grosstoad
The cultural in-joke about Itachi's comment "Live in an unsightly manner." to Sasuke is probably another. Though I wonder if it was a just a shout-out, or there is such a similar history/story in the Elemental Nations and Sasuke is just too focused to notice...
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
What's it a reference to?
Valette-Serafina
Valette-Serafina
A legend about a bunch of Samurai who were told to pretend to abandon their lord, and then take revenge after suspicion had fallen away from them.
Valette-Serafina
Valette-Serafina
As I recall.
Grosstoad
Grosstoad
To make short story long, a daimyo gives a minor offense to an envoy of the Emperor, so the envoy denigrates and belittles him constantly, until the daimyo is angered enough to strike the envoy. This is enough to force the daimyo to do sudoku, I mean, seppuku.
Grosstoad
Grosstoad
His retainers, hearing this, helped their lord's family escape, even if they let his domain be taken. These retainers, now ronin, 'run away, hide themselves, and live in an unsightly manner'.

Still suspicious of those ronin, the envoy keeps them in surveillance, but after years, the ex-retainers still live dejectedly and shamedfacedly... Finding it good and all, the envoy looks away, and the surveillance grow lax.
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