“Unshackled freedom’ did not mean doing whatever a person felt like without outside interference. To take up the reins of freedom, it was necessary to respect the rule of law and to cooperate. Otherwise, a person could cry ‘freedom’ until he was blue in the face and his ideals would remain idle visions.” LawFreedomRespectIdealsCooperationVisions Book:Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger Source: Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger
“He was far beyond being fed up with it all, to the point that his simmering irritation was close to boiling over. He would be a slave to no one. No shackles would bind his hands and feet. He would be free, and yet the fetters of the past that he wished to fast aside instead held him fast, an invisible weight burdening his every step.” PastFreedomSlaveBurdenFed UpShackles Book:Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger Source: Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger