In this world of stopped time, bright white light extended from Shade's palm to either side until it became that black staff.
With a thud, the bottom of the long staff struck the floor:
"Princes, I must warn you: using the Thaumaturgy of Time Stop with your infant bodies will only accelerate the collapse of your bodies and souls."
He watched the two infants in the cradle, holding hands and covered in amniotic fluid and blood, float into the air while wrapped in blankets:
"Don't tell me you want to fight me?"
"Though we do not know who you are, just as we said earlier, this status is the nobility the world has granted us. This nobility should not be stripped away by anyone. We were born noble, and this nobility will endure until the end of time."
Shade did not know whether they truly believed that or whether it was merely the stubbornness of children with incomplete minds, but he knew this was not the time for such nonsense:
"I'll ask one more time: you want to fight me, is that right?"
In the very next instant, the two princes floating before Shade nearly turned into light as they shattered through the window and flew outside. Once the glass fragments ceased touching them, they froze in the air again in a splattered pattern. The Time Acceleration applied to themselves was astonishing, but not astonishing enough to surpass Shade's Laguerre's Leap, whose range had expanded to one hundred meters.
Though he had not brought any relics, he had brought easily concealed Spellcasting Materials.
In the garden outside the window, Shade grabbed the blanket floating in midair and gave it a fierce yank. The two princes wrapped within were flung out, flying in opposite directions.
Two Great Sin Chains immediately shot