Sage Sayfeel narrowed his eyes.
The weight of his gaze pushed down on Rui.
A single question escaped his mouth.
"Why?"
Rui stared at him silently for a moment.
"I believe that I can find him."
His eyes grew more intense.
"I believe that I can compel him."
His tone grew stronger.
"I believe I can end this war by ending what caused it," His clear eyes met those of Sage Sayfeel. "I believe that I can get him to heal my father."
Sage Sayfeel's eyes sharpened into slits.
The air seemed to shift.
It seemed to be wrung taut by the escalating tension.
"End what caused it?" Sage Sayfeel whispered.
The displeasure in his voice was clear.
"Compel the Divine Doctor to heal the Emperor?"
His eyebrows furrowed sternly.
"That is not the destiny that your father bestowed upon you."
curled with displeasure. "That is not the
more intense. "Your father entrusted the throne to you. He entrusted you to rule Kandria in a manner befitting
the Sage's powerful gaze for a moment before closing
aware, but…" His
glinted in their
that he bequeathed me," Rui narrowed his eyes. "He said the choice was
grew more pronounced. "Your father gave you power that many in this world would
STEP
towards Rui, peering
to reject that power that he graciously gave
in is
his head. "These are not for
meeting his
tone grew more firm. "…In this life and in any
Sage Sayfeel narrowed his eyes. "You would reject this Empire? You would reject save it from the
eyes peered into
cost of your
"I won't
grew stronger. "Ascend the throne and rule over Kandria, just like His
power of prophecy, not my father," Rui's tone was calm yet solid. "He didn't foresee anything. He used the revelation of the truth and the threat against the peace and harmony of my family that
his head. "I cannot do justice to
cannot tread my Martial Path as
Martial Path," Rui narrowed
eyes grew more
impossibility from the very get-go.
Sage Sayfeel didn't respond.
his silence was
choice, the choice to tread the path of
opened them, meeting Sage Sayfeel's powerful gaze. "…my family is not nearly as absolutely central to the very essence of
"Abandoning them…the very thought
when I abandon my
pain, clawing at his chest. "…there's
in his eyes
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