A weight lifted off Ketis after she tacitly admitted her unusual ability to utilize the Annihilator Sword Style without actually mastering it. She increasingly felt guilty about misleading Fred and everyone else about her dedication to another sword style.
She felt like a fraud.
"Luckily, the worst hasn't come to pass."
Fred had lived over ninety years and invested at least half of it into mastering the sword style and propping up the associated sword school. He had turned from a powerful right-hand man to an expert pilot and swordmaster to a destitute old scammer who went deep into debt in order to keep the remnants of the school alive.
A swordsman who had spent years while enduring the lowest point of his life no longer clung to any illusionary values like pride, honesty and order.
He just wanted to make sure that his life's work was not in vain!
