It's less a question and more a wry observation as Ritsuka meets him, eye to eye, will to will; it's one of her better features, he thinks, how she stands resolute like a stone plinth in the middle of a storm. The faintest feeling of having seen her pull this trick before looms in the back of his mind, admirable and infuriating in the same breath.
"'Wise and just king', ha. Why oust your old tyrant in favor of a new one whose proclivities you don't know? Men stay the same, despite their protestations."
... which is unfair of him to say; the only interesting thing about people is their tendency to change, to be taken by whims and circumstances, but if he has to feel frozen in place and choked by a grief that's his by birthright, then so does everyone else.
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It's less a question and more a wry observation as Ritsuka meets him, eye to eye, will to will; it's one of her better features, he thinks, how she stands resolute like a stone plinth in the middle of a storm. The faintest feeling of having seen her pull this trick before looms in the back of his mind, admirable and infuriating in the same breath.
"'Wise and just king', ha. Why oust your old tyrant in favor of a new one whose proclivities you don't know? Men stay the same, despite their protestations."
... which is unfair of him to say; the only interesting thing about people is their tendency to change, to be taken by whims and circumstances, but if he has to feel frozen in place and choked by a grief that's his by birthright, then so does everyone else.