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| 54 | 222 | Lord View more quotes about temmu">Temmu would destroy the holding before allowing it to fall into the hands of Lord Yamada. |
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| 54 | 219 | The holding would be his, or it would cease to exist, had said Lord Yamada. |
| 54 | 220 | Walls will crumble, the mountaintop will be black, ashes will blow out to sea, he had said. |
| 54 | 221 | I could see the rationale of this decision. |
| 54 | 222 | Lord Temmu would destroy the holding before allowing it to fall into the hands of Lord Yamada. |
| 54 | 223 | That being the case, why might not the iron dragon strike? Surely Lord Yamada would not care for the inconvenience, the delay, and the economic hardships of maintaining a second siege, perhaps lasting years, to obtain a prize which would be destroyed before it could be grasped. |
| 54 | 224 | Dalliance was unacceptable. |
| 54 | 225 | "Terror courses the walls of the holding," said Tajima. |