[D7, LE] Karaoke Room

[Hantei Kinsen]

"I... do. Although much has changed since then..."

She takes a deep breath and starts to sing... "I've found a reason to become strong..."

Kinsen stops for a moment, takes another deep breath and winks to Misaki before continuing non-stop up until the final choir, "...Oh crimson flower, bloom proudly and illuminate my fate."

[Doji Misaki]

"It fits you indeed, it seems to me," Misaki says after listening happily.

"Much has changed you said... I take it because you used that reason and found the strength you were looking for?"

[Hantei Kinsen]

She nods, but then stops and shrugs, "I guess so. Most of the song seems to have already happened. As if it laid down in prophetic words all about my fate. If that's the case, there's might be yet a small part to be fulfilled."

[Doji Misaki]

The younger woman seemed to think a moment before chiming in, "Do you think you prefer things now that the song is almost finished and things have settled down, or in the past when the song was just starting and the future was unclear?"

[Hantei Kinsen]

"Interesting question." Kinsen purses her lips to think and taps on her cheek with her index, "I was rather more anxious before. The stakes were higher. It was a good feeling, and I didn't have to strategize too much. Now, I have too much I can lose. It is not fear, it is responsibility. Yet, it is not something so heavy I can't carry."

She giggles a bit and flexes a massive bicep, "I can lift quite a lot without a sweat."

After a sigh, she mentions, "I also have dear husband to support me when I falter. My children to make me want to wake up every day, and our Clan and Emperor to inspire me into being the best I can be for them."

Kinsen wrinkles her nose and bows apologetically, "I took too long to reply. I apologize. The answer is now. Now is better."

[Doji Misaki]

"The answer is fascinating, though not so much as the exposition behind it, so you've no need to apologize."

Misaki gives a small smile, voice soft, "You have a very lucky husband and family, to have someone so strong and devoted looking after them and supporting them."

[Hantei Kinsen]

She bows again, blushing a bit, "Ara. I am the lucky one instead. I married a... I literally married a... god."

Still blushed, she moves her eyes forward as thoughts come to her mind. She confesses, "The best of them all, if I were to say. Forgive me, Wise Emperor."

[Doji Misaki]

A small feminine giggle, "I think the Emperor would forgive you that point, Kinsen-sama."

She looked a little more thoughtful as something caught her mind, "Do you know the Emperor personally then? Surely, with him essentially being your brother-in-law..."