[Everyone was there for that. And yet later, Xishen had said the Regent preferred followers who willingly obeyed, who do not do so out of fear of sanctions. Which one is it? It's contradictory. It's inefficient. So much flair and dramatics over nothing, just like this execution.

Ciel simply knows how to keep her thoughts to herself, and make up the deficiencies in her reasoning with concrete action. Results are all that matters at the end of the day, after all. That's all.]

I happened across him and his neighbor by chance, when I came to Godsblood a few weeks earlier. [Thanks for the spice tip, kenomies.] The woman is a food stall vendor. She should be closing up shop soon. [...] It won't be anything drastic, just a warning.

[But it's pretty much implied, isn't it. That she'll be hurt, in some way.]