If anyone tries to make trouble or resist, Ah Man will handle it—he's not worried.
Just based on this alone, he's almost guaranteed to win; the only difference is between a good result and a better one.
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Harano and Ah Man chatted casually about "parliament" topics along the way, and the carriage soon arrived at the Wanjin Shipyard, located at the southwest corner of New Wanjin.
By then, the area was already under lockdown, with few idle bystanders outside the shipyard. The flags fluttered in the wind: the "Golden Gourd Banner" representing Harano, and the "Deep Blue Gourd Banner" representing the Wanjin Navy, shining together in solemn splendor. Strictly speaking, they should be called "calabash motifs," but Harano always referred to his banner as the "Gourd Banner," and everyone in Wanjin followed his lead, so now they all called the calabash motif a "gourd."
