N would happily and enthusiastically answer any questions Seimei might have had about them, if the conversation went that direction.

"If nothing else I suppose it's a gift that you have a choice at all, and the mind to decide now that you would want to leave in an honorable way."

His mind drifted briefly to AZ, the once-king whose mistakes in war forced him to wander the world, searching for solace and finding none. His journey had been centuries long, and pitiable at that, until he finally came across what he was looking for - a strong heart to bring a close to a painful, wretched chapter of his life.

N had wondered, if not for Hilda... would his fate have been the same?