This chapter's epigraph comes from the opening lines of the novel, "Myung hwan" . It's a quote from the novel's prologue, in which the protagonist asks the narrator if he still looks like one of the soldiers from the previous chapter. The narrator replies that he doesn't look like a soldier, but rather a bastard. The bastard asks the protagonist if he can kill him with a "petty sneak attack," and the protagonist says that he can't think of a better way to kill him than by killing him with "this petty sneak attack." This is a reference to the assassination of the emperor, which was carried out by a group called the Paradise Group. The paradise group was responsible for the deaths of the families of emperors in the