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With a quick brush of the knife, you open his throat, spilling his blood onto the floor and over the Hegemonic Medallion around his neck. Yours again at last.
“D-Dad?! DAD! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”
Oh shit. Kima- why is she here? That is unfortunate. You didn't want her to see this. She's blameless in all this- you seriously doubt she was in any way involved in the coup. While her father probably shaped her mind over these last few years, she's too young and uninterested in politics to really be bent into a traitor. It's a shame too. Up until this moment, you really were planning on marrying her, but once you had to kill her father... That complicates things.
Tradition and prudence would dictate that Kima be married off to a low born man- a low ranking farmer or standard city-laborer- to humiliate her and keep her direct children too low born to be of a serious threat; so her hatred for you she passes onto them can't cause problems until she's dead and they've married back up again. Though with that said, her gene profile is a bit too valuable to be wasted on such gestures.
Kima isn't collapsed into a sobbing heap, though. She's reaching for her outfit and... pulling out a knife? No- a stiletto, to be precise. Where did she get that?
“I- I'LL KILL YOU!”
Kima charges at you with murderous intent. Her father must have given her that knife for self defense- but she also has dueling training, that much you can tell. Her strikes are fast and fierce but wild- her emotions are driving her now. You really don't want to kill her- you'll just need to disarm the knife from her instead. She is really trying to kill you though- she won't succeed. She can't overcome a highborn Supreme with all the training in the world- She can't overcome her biological limitations. Neither can yourself- as lesson you learned as a much younger man. The physical laws of our reality cannot be broken by <span class="mu-i">anyone</span>, no matter how much spirit or determination you bring. That's the long and short of it.
