Chapter 43
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Human nature is a funny thing. Nobody could possibly know better than I did that I had shut off the electric fence myself, or that I had personally contacted the Sōhei Faction and asked them to attack immediately. Even so, it irritated me greatly to be blamed for what had happened, because I hadn’t been given any real authority and therefore should not have been held responsible for any failures in security.
When I was a kid, I lived for a while with an angry man who would constantly accuse me of sneaking and lying to him. Sometimes I really had been sneaking and lying, and sometimes I hadn’t. But I felt equally indignant either way.
It was kind of like that. But it was really more like the Stalinist purges when the Soviet secret police killed almost 700,000 people
