"Your Excellency, what you mean is," Isaac, frowning deeply, spoke bluntly, "that the proper succession of the Lava Forbidden Tower is even more important than who ends up with the throne of the Heaven's Wheel?"
Even when directly accused by another "Gold," Julius did not become angry.
Or rather... Julius, who had completely sealed away his emotions, almost as if he had been mentally castrated, had utterly lost the emotional function of "anger."
"I don't mean that, but you can certainly understand it that way."
Julius spoke calmly, his tone not even becoming more hurried: "Because that's how this world works. Everyone has their own duties, and the closer one is to the realm of light, the more so it is. I think you should understand this point as well.
"When everyone's rights and responsibilities clash, we cannot determine who is more important—we don't have the authority to evaluate 'whose existence is more important.' Not even the True Gods have that right, let alone us.
