Board Thread:Important Logs/@comment-26510601-20170503220630/@comment-26510601-20170505092453

It wasn't like Ieyasu said everything he did just to get something out of Keldran. What he said next was harsh, but it was true; that's why Ieyasu was apologizing in the first place. It was trying to hear Keldran blast away at Ieyasu, but Ieyasu just clenched his teeth and kept silent. It was just the honest truth, even if Ieyasu didn't realize it at the moment. The last part regarding the dog he was for his father back then, bit especially deep. It was a low blow.

Ieyasu let it sit inside of him as Keldran took his time individually responding to the rest that had chimed in after Ieyasu. He listened until the very end when the gates opened back up and Keldran stormed back into the village.

This whole day had been something else, and there was a lot weighing on Ieyasu's mind. He had not nearly enough time to really consider where he stood now, but now that the dust had settled there was plenty of time to dwell on such things in his sleep. Keldran himself said he wasn't really a kage, dictator, or anything like that. It was still risky to consider just coming in the village and staying. At most he had less than a day and only what was barely needed before more trouble was stirred with Keldran or other Kogakure officials.

If there was nothing to stop him, then he'd just trade a couple of looks with Taka and Shirna, the very two that were only trying to help in the situation.

"Well... the night couldn't get any worse than this, right?"

He looked to Shinra briefly one last time as he went star-gazing lost in his own dreams, something felt... oddly familiar about the person but he couldn't really place his finger on it. But with no one to stop him, or rather since no one really cared, Ieyasu went off to the nearest sake bar to get a late night drink before he'd probably check out and rent a room at a near inn if there were one in the village (if not he'd just do the same for an inn in a near village); reflecting on things before ultimately passing out.