Everyone is exhausted and starving, and the outer walls of the city have been breached. Everyone is afraid of dying, but the longest life a person can live is one hundred years. If the people back down, they'll think they're cowards. If they surrender, the people will record their humiliation. However, if they stand firm against the enemy to the very last, they will add their very last drops of blood. What they leave behind is their unyielding resolve.