>>6126364“From the day it happened. The one who tried to attack Koruza first tried to stab him in the back with this.” she says, tossing the dagger onto his other seat. Where you all watch as steam begins rising from the wooden seat. To your horror the wooden chair is seemingly <span class="mu-i">eaten</span> by something, the blade clattering to the stone ground. Having eaten a whole through the chair, your jaw dropping in shock. Then, even worse, that same acid or whatever it is in the blade causes the stone itself to bubble, whatever chemical that blade is imbued with devouring even reinforced rock. Those bastards really tried to murder your son! Caulifla then reaches down, carefully grabbing the weapon by its handle, lifting it up as the stone continues to bubble and dissolve, the chair falling apart as the entire seat disappears and the acid eats into the frame. “I secured it after trying to heal those idiots, but it was too late for them.”
“And you didn't think to tell me?” he asks her, brows furrowing as he meets your daughter's mask, her blank pleasant smile not wavering. Without a word the weapon is engulfed in her divine flames once more, vanishing and returning to wherever she'd stored it as quickly as it appeared.
“No. I have stored it where no one on New Salda aside from Okira can reach, which is clearly a far safer place than your armory.” Caulifla retorts, a note of anger in her voice. “Because of your lax security, my brother almost died.”
“Lax? I have three of my personal guard posted outside the armory at all times. No one gets in or out without...” he starts, realization dawning. “Damn. Even the guard?”
“Even the guard what?” you ask him, Vegeta remembering you are there and turning his attention to you. For a moment he considers his next words, then lowers his head, muttering something to himself before raising his gaze to you.
“I have been trying to keep you out of all this, but I suppose there is no choice now. Now that they're directly attacked your family.” King Vegeta says with a heavy sigh, eyes weighed down with the weight of rule. “For the past few years, there has been a quiet insurrection going on. There is a growing faction who want to overthrow me. Who see me as nothing more than your puppet, a lackey who only sits the throne to enforce your will. And after what you did today... They will only have more fuel to this fire. They will see this as you giving a 'royal decree'. And then there are the others, those who only see me as an obstacle to 'your rightful rule' of our people. Who want me out of the way, gone so the 'strongest' Saiyan can rule as, 'as is only right'. Which only gives me a few options, Karn.”
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