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"Well, it's... Kind of about that. You two were 'asleep' due to Yaya but she suggested I do things to become at peace with both of you. Regret, for example. I know you think we're irredeemable and a monster. Yet, can you deny that without us, had we succeeded all those summers ago at ending our life, that more people in Tuliyollal would have died?"

Regret thinks for a moment. "We killed over six hundred, how many of them innocents? How many of them didn't deserve their death? I can't deny we did kill some worthy of it. Yet, others who came after us just because it was their job. Those who had reasons that we were too blind to see, or even were in the wrong place at the wrong time and we unjustly murdered them. How many? Can we truly say?"

Ashlyn looks down upon the fine wood desk. She stays silent for a moment, the chronometer on the desk breaking the silence at it ticks away.

After a while, the bunny finally had a response. "I cannot give a number to that, and I know you will say that's why we need to die. Yet... had we died Regret, had we perished back when we were just twenty-nine summers. Would there not be more dead people in Tuliyollol? You can argue the suffering of Ruby is our fault, and maybe to a lesser extent, the pain that Kira went through is our fault. Sure, they might be better off had we just died. Sure, others as well would have had better lives. Yet, Selina... she still would have died... but she would have died alone. She wouldn't have had a loving wife until the end... until... well even now I still love her and hope she is with Father in the Heaven of Ice..."

Ashlyn paused for a moment. Her voice was shaking as she talked about her late wife. Regret could feel the emotions rising. The pain that the bunny felt for her long lost Midlander wife.

"Look, I won't pretend we didn't do wrong. I won't pretend we don't deserve every onze of vitriol and hate we have sent to us. Yet, look at Istrone. She is growing into a wonderful knight because of us. Four more summers and she'll be fully grown and able to become a knight. She'll do House Ishina proud too."

"Your dear squire whom you are looking for a dark knight soul stone for? The one you are going to push down your path of torment and darkness, despite promising her father you wouldn't?" Regret simply answered.

Ashlyn knew she will be breaking her word to Istrone's father, yet...

"I am doing so only because she desires it so deeply. I'll be teaching her the things no one taught me. I'll be teaching her to have a better control over it. I'll be teaching her to use the powers responsibly. Once she is trained too, I'll begin training my own, and after