Fair Enough

Sarriel fell into silence, the rest of it all fell into place on its own. Ryu was sure that there were details she had left out, but they didn't particularly matter. However, there was still one thing nagging at Ryu.

"Tell me, why are the Truth Pupils locked in at the seventh rank. It's related to all of this, isn't it?"

Ryu had always been curious about this. Of all the Heavenly Pupils, the Truth Pupils were the only one to have never gone up or down in rank. No, maybe it wasn't accurate to say this as Ryu couldn't confirm with any certainty. But, what he could say is that within the last five Eras, the Truth Pupils had never moved upward nor downward.

One might think that this was because of Sarriel. 'Obviously', if she moved through time, then the ranking of her Pupils would be stalled. This was, of course, under the assumption that a pair of Heavenly Pupils could only appear once at a time.

However, there were two issues with.