A long, long time ago, on an island, just at the start of a new era with a new government, there was a local lord. He was a greedy one, who raised taxes by the year, for he wanted to build a castle.
Some time before that, there were men from the west that traveled to the island. They brought with them things to trade—material things, like guns, but other things as well. Recipes, religion—and so on.
Their religion was unusual, and it was spread along the land—but those in power did not care for it, for it was new and different, different from what they knew. Over time, they grew hostile toward anyone who practiced it.
. . .
In that particular lord's land, there were many who practiced this new religion. Since they were ostracized, and since they were looked down upon, nobody would help them when cruelties were enacted upon them. Nobody looked when their taxes were raised exorbitantly, to the point that they had nothing left for themselves to eat—and moreover, those in power encouraged violence against those people, too.
Re: 『Heaven's Grass』
A long, long time ago, on an island, just at the start of a new era with a new government, there was a local lord. He was a greedy one, who raised taxes by the year, for he wanted to build a castle.
Some time before that, there were men from the west that traveled to the island. They brought with them things to trade—material things, like guns, but other things as well. Recipes, religion—and so on.
Their religion was unusual, and it was spread along the land—but those in power did not care for it, for it was new and different, different from what they knew. Over time, they grew hostile toward anyone who practiced it.
. . .
In that particular lord's land, there were many who practiced this new religion. Since they were ostracized, and since they were looked down upon, nobody would help them when cruelties were enacted upon them. Nobody looked when their taxes were raised exorbitantly, to the point that they had nothing left for themselves to eat—and moreover, those in power encouraged violence against those people, too.