Three days later.
Sotos Castle had barely returned to normal.
Lords, soldiers, and scholars who supported Colin had been purged, Feili's spy organization had been uprooted, the innocents had been released, and everything seemed to be back on track.
But everyone who saw that Green Banyan Tree knew that things could never go back to the way they were.
At the castle balcony.
Aaron and Theodore sat together, with two cups of honey water on the table before them.
After a long silence, it was Theodore who broke it first: "I seem to have underestimated you all along. You have always been different, even more so as you grew up. What should I call you now, Aaron, the 'Son of the Green Banyan' or even the 'King of Green Forest'?"
"Whatever…"
Aaron sighed, "At this point, I have no choice but to become the Green Forest Earl. I've heard the saying, 'With great power comes great responsibility,' but that is a lie!"