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Emerald wanted to lay waste to me, to end me? I wish he could have. We have so little time remaining. I see how futile struggles are. We can't defy Fate. What we want, what we desire, what we "deserve" is constantly tested by her whims, rather than our own power. How else would you consider recent events? ZSig, Tom, Emerald, same story, different eyes. Here's where the hero never, ever dies. One will walk away doing what I couldn't: hold UCA's diseased world upon your shoulders with a disgusting, sickening pride. The reason I failed was I lacked your penchants for "playing nice." My best laid plans, my glorious hubris at creating spectacle failed, and I was fed to dogs for my trouble. A harsh lesson that playing evil only gets you so far, and playing above your station will quickly get you killed.

But no matter how much I fail, Fate continues to kick me in the face with opportunities to redeem myself. When I returned with fire in my veins, I vowed to actively pursue gold with my King. Why did it not come to pass? Sultan, David, chemistry? Tom did what I couldn't, not once, but twice: proving my point that on a whim, he could do what I can't. But Sultan and David aren't around anymore. Eaed and Emerald are. Eaed can only feign ignorance for so long. He knows the future, but refuses to share it for our benefit. We both took over for XIII, yet only he had the foresight. How else could he know UCA's dying day is approaching? How else could he jump from one partner to another without losing a step? He is making a sick joke of this, profiting off our misery. He is making a mockery of what Apollo and I have done these past 12 months: gold beyond measure, tainted black by poison we couldn't see coming.

Emerald is leeching off said ability. Right place, right time, and right type of person for Eaed to exploit. Popular, brazen, and hopelessly naive. Should Apollo and I face you, it will be a harsh lesson into what the future truly means: being trampled underfoot by those with experience and intense willpower. Neither of us need to see the future to know we can dominate, and have proven that many times over.

What I want is to fulfill my first obligation: make Apollo champion again BY MY HANDS! I am the one person who was willing to stand at the side of greatness, rather than in front of it. My recent success came out of unique circumstance, not by choice, and was fleeting. I get another chance to do set things right, and to paraphrase a fallen god of managers, You are in my way. You are in the way of something I dream about. Before UCA ends, I want to stand at the side of the champions of the world. You may be champions now, but that will soon be former, and that means you will be nothing.

When the Kingdom get through with you, you will be less than nothing.
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"Misguided mortals, you'll burn with me! Spirit of man cannot be freed!" - Black Sabbath, When Death Calls