Shaking his head, Enki's face fell into a thoughtful expression once again. Here was a difference between Over There and the twelve kingdoms, and obviously between the twelve kingdoms and wherever Suzaku was from that Enki thought was good.
"A good king gives a rich, peaceful land, Suzaku... If Shōryū wasn't a good king, there'd be signs of that in the land itself. The ministers in place keep the system and changes we've set up going, so they're not interested in destroying that." Enki shrugged. He still didn't like kings or fuedal lords; usually, they all led to only one end, and that was death of their people and the ravaging of the land.
But Shōryū was keeping En peaceful, well and green, and would for a long time yet. "An' if someone thought he wasn't doing a good job, that person can't be looking out at En. And then they'd have to take that issue up with me, I chose him after all," Enki said and scoffed, a bit of unconcious pride slipping in.
"An' if they killed the king... The land falls to ruin until I could find a new king. An' I doubt that someone who gets into their head to kill a king who hasn't strayed from the path would be a suitable king," Enki snorted.
Atsuyu... Atsuyu had said so many pretty things, but he had, after all, not gone to Mt. Hou. And if he'd put himself in power over Shōryū? Enki would surely have been struck down by shitsudou, and then Shōryū would have died and then no matter how pretty his words or what he did, En would have plunged into the abyss again.
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Date: 2011-02-27 04:19 pm (UTC)"A good king gives a rich, peaceful land, Suzaku... If Shōryū wasn't a good king, there'd be signs of that in the land itself. The ministers in place keep the system and changes we've set up going, so they're not interested in destroying that." Enki shrugged. He still didn't like kings or fuedal lords; usually, they all led to only one end, and that was death of their people and the ravaging of the land.
But Shōryū was keeping En peaceful, well and green, and would for a long time yet.
"An' if someone thought he wasn't doing a good job, that person can't be looking out at En. And then they'd have to take that issue up with me, I chose him after all," Enki said and scoffed, a bit of unconcious pride slipping in.
"An' if they killed the king... The land falls to ruin until I could find a new king. An' I doubt that someone who gets into their head to kill a king who hasn't strayed from the path would be a suitable king," Enki snorted.
Atsuyu... Atsuyu had said so many pretty things, but he had, after all, not gone to Mt. Hou. And if he'd put himself in power over Shōryū? Enki would surely have been struck down by shitsudou, and then Shōryū would have died and then no matter how pretty his words or what he did, En would have plunged into the abyss again.