[ Something about her tone braces him up. He’s got a lifetime of experience in keeping his own personal tragedies just that, and he’ll have time for it to haunt him later. More than that, business comes first.

Still, the color isn’t coming back to his skin any time soon. ]

What happened with Ukoku is a dead end. [ It’s a snap decision, but it lets him go forward. ] Maten isn’t the right choice for undoing a divine spell, so I’m more interested in who affects us now.

[ He’s had to have made enemies by now, right? ]