Book 9: Chapter 58: Take That Up with the Heavens
Elder Mu tried to glare at him, but her heart was in it. She looked at the decapitated head of the muscular elder before turning her gaze on Aihan. Shaking her head a little, she reached out and closed the other woman’s eyes. Sen watched this in silence. He could be patient while the person he suspected was the last remaining elder of the Twisted Blade Sect paid a last little bit of respect. Elder Mu slowly rose to her feet, but she didn’t turn to face him immediately. Instead, she looked around at the ruins Sen had left in his wake.
“Is the Patriarch dead?” she asked.
“Do you care?”
“I’ve never liked the man. That much stupidity almost has to be intentional. It’d be nice to know that he’s getting dragged into the thousand hells with the rest of us for all his sins.”
“I expect Uncle Kho killed him. I didn’t ask him to, but I should have expected it.”
“Uncle Kho,” said the woman with a visible shudder. “By all the gods, I can’t imagine anyone calling that man Uncle. Then again, you both seem to have a flair for the indiscriminate destruction of sects.”
Sen felt his expression harden.
“Don’t you dare try to put the blame for this on me. I didn’t choose this fight. You did. You just didn’t think you’d lose.”
The woman shot him a dirty look.