[It was war-- and war was never good. Too many good lives had been lost to the might of one party imposing their will upon another, be it Al-Thamen imposing it's will upon Kou from within or Sinbad and the Seven Seas' Alliance imposing from without. In truth, he had wanted to spare Kouha from this pain, but he knew in his heart that his youngest brother had been a warrior from the day he was born.
Blood was nothing new to him. Neither was pain...and Koumei was forever sorry it had taken him so long to even find the information that there was a third son fathered by Ren Koutoku. Earlier intervention could have spared Kouha some of the pain he's already experienced...
But they were both the products of a war that wasn't even their own. There was no choice for them but to endure, for the sake of whatever the future might hold.
Folding his hands together in his lap, Koumei squeezed at his fingers nervously and fought off the urge to find a lame escape like another man would bat away a mosquito. Then:]
...I think we need to first determine what we know of what's happening within the Empire by the both of our perspectives. What do you recall of Aladdin from the last time you saw him?
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Blood was nothing new to him. Neither was pain...and Koumei was forever sorry it had taken him so long to even find the information that there was a third son fathered by Ren Koutoku. Earlier intervention could have spared Kouha some of the pain he's already experienced...
But they were both the products of a war that wasn't even their own. There was no choice for them but to endure, for the sake of whatever the future might hold.
Folding his hands together in his lap, Koumei squeezed at his fingers nervously and fought off the urge to find a lame escape like another man would bat away a mosquito. Then:]
...I think we need to first determine what we know of what's happening within the Empire by the both of our perspectives. What do you recall of Aladdin from the last time you saw him?