"…Are you implying that, since I haven’t shared my thoughts with Your Majesty, you won’t share yours either?"

“Well, I wouldn’t phrase it quite like that.”

The Emperor chuckled, his tone almost playful.

"Perhaps you did tell me a few things, but I simply chose not to remember them."

"…"

I had no response to that.

No, wait—I did have something to say.

Seriously? You’re the Emperor. The man at the pinnacle of this vast empire. In the original story, you were the ambitious figure who declared you’d bring the entire world to heel and create a perfectly equal society …