A Lawmaker（英语/EN)

A Lawmaker can not be an Arbiter.

She understands this.

Her duty was to make the law, not to enforce it.

The lawmaker makes the law, and the arbitrator arbitrates by it. One holds the pen, using the word to forge the sword; one holds the sword, using it to protect the word.

It is necessary.

The pen holder and the sword holder can not be the same person, just like mortals can not be gods.

She understood this.

But what if the sword holder no longer existed?

Or what if that person doesn't have the strength to lift the sword, didn't want to hold it at all, or chose to swing it haphazardly?

What use is the pen that forges the sword, when the sword no longer does its duty?

When the sword that should protect the word turns on the pen that writes the word, when the blade of the sword strikes the tip of the pen, what is the meaning of holding the pen?

She didn't understand this.

So, for the first time in her life, she held the sword that was forged in the words written by herself.

The handle of the sword felt different from the barrel of the pen. Too hard, too cold, too heavy.

But she held it tight anyway.

I had to, she repeated.

A Lawmaker can not be an Arbiter.

She understood this, just as she understood that mortals can not be gods.

Still, she holds the sword.

She held the sword, and she also didn't let go of the pen.

In the rustling sound of the pen tip gliding across the paper, there came a sound of the clang of the sword blade sliding against the sheath.