[Was that...really possible? The reason Gilgamesh hadn't answered, hadn't intervened in any of countless executions of the would-be king he'd sworn to protect...was it really because he hadn't seen any choice? Had he just vanished out of shame, spending two millennia in the Tempering Grounds to eliminate any other Shield weak of either will or body that might fail as he had?]
[Ardyn didn't answer, the resulting thousand-yard stare not quite directed at Church so much as it was straight through him.]
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[Was that...really possible? The reason Gilgamesh hadn't answered, hadn't intervened in any of countless executions of the would-be king he'd sworn to protect...was it really because he hadn't seen any choice? Had he just vanished out of shame, spending two millennia in the Tempering Grounds to eliminate any other Shield weak of either will or body that might fail as he had?]
[Ardyn didn't answer, the resulting thousand-yard stare not quite directed at Church so much as it was straight through him.]