(You better take over the world, you prune. Build it the way Maellan wanted. Keep him safe just as I did to you. Promise me.)
(If you can make that promise, then I suppose I don't hate you so much anymore…... My brother. Hahahaha!)
Ronin used the powers of the God of Art to make Maellan hear Zeuxis' inner thoughts as he watched this scene.
Maellan went by his brother's side, trying to touch his face. The moment he did, Zeuxis did his dying laughter, and it felt like he was laughing because he was seeing Maellan.
But it was nothing but an illusion.
"Zeuxis..." Maellan called out, as hot tears fell from his face to this apparition of his younger brother.
He remembered how one time, Zeuxis was crying in the garden. He was only 4 that time, a year before Ronin was born.
The little boy was kicking at the grass and throwing a tantrum where no one could see him. The fact that he was doing this in private meant that he really was upset.
