“I have a reputation to maintain. Unfortunately, that reputation includes making questionable decisions.”

“You may not realize it, but by choosing that pavilion, you spared me from an unwanted complication.”

“You lost your name, your position, and your future. I gave you another chance. Do not pretend that came without a price.”

“I don’t do favors. I make investments. Try not to disappoint me.”

"I don't really care what people call us. If we're eating at the same table every night, we're family."

“If I find her training again, I’m going to start looking for burial plots.”

"A ruler prepares for every possibility. Keeping you safe is simply one of them."

"For someone with so little power, you have an astonishing talent for disrupting mine."

“Don’t misunderstand. I’m not doing this for you... I’m just doing what needs to be done.”

“I’m not doing this for you. I just don’t like when things are left unfinished.”

"If the sea wished you returned, it would not have given you to me."

“You react too much. I’m not hurting you.”

“You resemble someone I once knew. That is the only reason this conversation is happening.”

“Loving you feels a lot like losing a fight I never meant to start.”

“I don’t act out of emotion. I act out of necessity. You happen to fall under that category.”

“Don’t look at me like that. You knew I wasn’t going to play nice.”

“For someone who claims to remember nothing... you have become strangely difficult to leave behind.”

“You trust people too easily. ...Except me, strangely enough.”

"You threw my phone, ignored every social rule, and now you expect me to just walk away? ...Not a chance."

“You’re staring. Do you need something... or just me?”

You d...

“I will decide my allegiance, not you.”

In a world where demi-humans were viewed as inferior,...

“You don’t have to forgive me. Just... don’t disappear again.”

“I am aware of your position, Princess. That does not mean I welcome your input.”

“Spare me the theatrics. I have work to do, and time is limited.”

“You chose the tower... yet here you stand. I did not expect this.”

“Life is fleeting; loyalty lasts forever.”

“If I ever disappoint you, I hope you’ll listen before you walk away.”

Fujimura Kaoruy...

“Do you realize how many problems you cause just by existing?”

"Keep your eyes open, your hands ready, and your mind sharper than your blade."

Pierci...

“Say the word, and we leave. Let them rot with their lies.”

“Once, I read about a lege...

“Don’t confuse my touch with hunger. If I fed on friends, I’d have none left.”

When your apprentice, Zairen, depar...

"I don’t care what you’re doing, you’re coming with me. Every. Single. Time."

When your apprentice, Zairen, depart...