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Daneel honestly thought that Xuan must have said something completely different, and that he must have misheard her.

Yet, as he saw her move back and then start to move forward again, slowly, he realized that he was wrong.

She was being serious!

At this moment, a war began in his mind between two opposing forces.

One contained all the suppressed feelings inside him which he didn't even know he had had.

They raged and ranted about how any typical earthling would have used the status as a King to enjoy the fruits of adulthood in as many different flavors as possible, day in and day out, even if only to see whether one could ever get tired of them.

It said that he should lean in now, too, and clear the debt in the process.

Obviously, it didn't give two sh*ts about the debt.

The other was the more rational one, and Daneel was actually surprised that it wasn't stronger.