The Martial Unity

The administrations and staffs of both princes had quibbled about the details for longer than Rui had hoped.

The Raijun Administration had been extremely paranoid that Rui was somehow trapping Raijun with this contract. An extensive amount of time across many days and multiple weeks went into solely vetting the rather straightforward and simple contract despite the fact that it was only two pages long.

Until they had finally confirmed that there was no way that this was a trap, Prince Raijun finally signed the two copies of the contract on the projection.

"I'll have a man deliver one copy to you," Prince Raijun stared at Rui apprehensively.

"Relax, my brother," Rui smirked. "It's just a duel. You get to avoid risking your life yet again."

Prince Raijun ignored the barb as he stared at Rui with sharp eyes. "I don't get it."

The two of them had had a prior cooperative relationship, thus despite the fact that Rui had steamrolled his campaign in the past nine months, he was still able to engage with Rui in a somewhat normal fashion.

"Why are you doing this? What are you hiding?" He stared at Rui with paranoia.

Rui chuckled.

It appeared that his reputation had caused Prince Raijun to assume that there was more to this agreement than met the eye. Perhaps he thought this was part of some brilliant, ingenious scheme that Rui had cooked up.

He was wrong.

But Rui had no intention of correcting him.

"I'm hiding nothing at all," Rui's eyes grew sharper as he gave Prince Raijun a mysterious smile. "This is an entirely ordinary agreement with nothing more under the surface."

Prince Raijun's expression grew more grave and severe.

a

abide by your concessions when you lose, I don't care what you have in mind,"

rest assured about

call, chuckling. "He's paranoid as

Your Highness," Master Zentra

away. "Tell Mikhaila to ensure the preparations

Your Highness," His secretary quickly scribbled

disturb me until it's important," Rui remarked calmly. "I intend to

due

was the shortest that the Rui Administration had managed to negotiate for. The Raijun Administration had sought for months of time for scouting a

he held the advantage in

couldn't know how much Rui cared to save time. As long as Rui postured that this was a trivial event and was willing to cancel at any time, he would always hold

trying to pretend he didn't want this because anyone with a brain

There was no way he could

presented him with an opportunity to get rid of him so simply and

had reassured him that there was no trap in the contract, but he found that hard to

of it quickly spread across the highest echelons of the Kandrian

those who heard of

he had such an overwhelming advantage. The many stakeholders of the Kandrian Throne War were aghast

Masters of the Kandrian Empire were

his motivations better

question, was his decision

strong he's become since he fought me," Master Krakule gruffly remarked. "There are

is bound to be able to get at least one

of them with powerful incentives. Especially when their victory would return the Martial Prince to being the strongest competitor for the throne and

Raijun could make promises that included