[This was a story as common as the warning parents told their children at bed time. If loyalty wasn't strong enough to hold people together, then they would fall from a lack of strength. People would be used; some wanted it, some needed it, and others just plain didn't care one way or another.

But the point to Silco was that Akechi had survived and thrived. The boy had proven resourceful, intelligent, and willing. Akechi also carried familiar emotional scars, and those could prove dangerous if allowed to run unchecked. He expected that's part of the reason the father remained; some dark and ugly part of Akechi wanted to mean something.]

So, you are no better than the man who sired you. Burning lives all around you because you have the means and the will. [He made a soft 'hmm' as he considered and then returned to his puzzle.] So you say. I hope you have a plan for the power vacuum left behind otherwise you're replacing one asshole with another that holds a different name.