10 - The Certificates

Kosho Chronicles Issue #10

To the Reader

In the martial arts, people will do extraordinary things for a piece of paper. They will travel across the country for one. They will lie about one. They will spend years chasing one and then, once they have it, spend the rest of their lives defending it instead of learning from it.

A certificate from James Mitose meant something. But what it meant depended entirely on the person holding it.