Abdicate

(Multiple pov)

"Is there anything else?" He asked after a long pause. "The beast, it could be—"

"Don't mention it." the ruling emperor began saying. 

"Forgive me for being ignorant," the ninth-rank patrol knight whispered. The ruling emperor is not annoyed, it is more… he felt some things cannot be said aloud, therefore he said moments later; "Don't point fingers unless you wish to shoulder the consequences of being wrong." Emperor said. He felt exhausted. The ruling emperor for merely sixty years, but it felt as though he had already served these people for over a century. Forty more years and he can allow his heir to take over.