decisiveness / resignation

wet nurse

something that has come out into the open: a public incident, something that is public knowledge / an issue brought before a court or other public institution

vestige, trace

Alternative form of 思い切り

to come to mind; to occur to

as one wants; as one expects

as one wants; as one expects

an Iriomote cat

(と〜) thinking that […] (with the next clause explaining that the truth is contrary to expectations)