I know exactly what is going on out there. I've known all of my life.

[Because not even the sons of the first emperor or their young cousins were spared from witnessing the atrocities of battle, and all the manners of indignities that the defeated warriors had to face at the hands of those who conquered them. Beheading was mild-- and even a ten year old child, with his legs shaking so hard from the terrified sobs that wracked his slender little body that he couldn't stand, had come to understand what it truly meant to 'conquor' or to 'be conquered.'

Drawing in a breath, Koumei let those memories churn away in the depths of his unconscious and dropped all pretenses and levity. Although he wasn't a warrior of the same calibur as Doudanuki, he had seen far too many things to be 'innocent' and 'untested' any longer.]

And your words right there are why my Brother and King strives to conquer the world-- so that there can be no more senseless wars, and so our grandchildren's grandchildren never need to see the blood that soaked the soils of our birth like we had to. Like our father and his father before him.