"They might. Or you might actually have an edge, at least since I gave up my first name. Just as well neither of us is looking for a fight, isn't it?"

Truthfully, Akira's not sure that his first name would've made much of a difference. Laws of the gods are not laws of the Realm, after all. But even in such vague terms, he knows who he's talking to now, and if anyone of the Realm could've rivaled that kind of power, it was the Red Death.

But he walked away from that life for a reason.

"Nobody'd jumped on Lotus yet, so I'm using that here. What should I call you?"