After leaving Jade Island, everyone arrived at a beautiful resort beach, officially beginning Team Avatar's vacation.
Yet at that very moment, one person stood apart from the rest, hiding in the shade to meditate-
That person was, of course, Kahn.
"Kahn, would you be willing to govern the Fire Nation with me?"
Kahn contemplated the words in his mind. Once or twice would have been fine, but lately, they had clearly been surfacing far too often.
This wasn't normal.
Or rather, for anyone, having a particular scene, sound, conversation, or the like repeatedly surface in their mind over a short period was no ordinary occurrence.
These recurring things might be abstract expressions of inner feelings, silent portents of some drastic change, images of important memories buried away, or obscure hints from the depths of the mind.
In short, they must have substance, must point to something-something unusual that truly reflected what lay within.
But for many people, even if they noticed such an unusual phenomenon, tracing it back to its source would be difficult.
In the world of Kahn's previous life, there had been a discipline devoted to studying such conditions: psychology. Unfortunately, he had never specifically studied it in his previous life.
As a Spiritbender, however, he could keenly sense that these words might be connected to the two chakra points that remained blocked.
"Kahn, would you be willing to govern the Fire Nation with me?"
These were the words Azula had spoken when she confessed her love to him. But at the time, what had made him realize she was confessing hadn't been these words, but what she had done afterward.
Namely, well, that...
Returning to the words themselves, only after realizing his feelings for Azula and looking at them again did he understand why she had used