In the Palace Gardens—
"You're Robin Burton's son?!" Sirene shoved Richard's right shoulder with enough force to make him instinctively take a step backward.
"So it would seem." The young man answered with an innocent smile, taking another step back as though he had already anticipated another shove.
"How is it possible that you never told me?!" Sirene pushed him again. "We've spent centuries together! Centuries!!" She immediately shoved him yet another time. "And not once—not a single time—did you ever think to say, 'Listen, Sirene, I'm the son of one of the wealthiest men in the universe, the future Great Truth Chosen, and a friend of the Elder Cosmic!!'"
"I didn't know, I swear!" Richard quickly replied while retreating another step with an embarrassed smile. "Don't you remember? I told you about him and my family once. I told you he had been an ordinary man from an ordinary family, then somehow became a Planetary Emperor within a very short period of time!"
