Koumyou nods, and then reaches up with a hand to try to de-gunk his own eyes from all the earlier crying.

"That's what I suspect."

To say that Koumyou and Ukoku's dynamic is complicated... is an understatement. But, they're Sanzos. Some of that just comes with the territory.

"Goudai was slowly dying anyway," he feels the need to clarify, "he called me to him to act as witness. Any of his students who could have become the next protector of the Muten, would have had to kill him to do it."

That hadn't made it any less horrific to watch.

"Ukoku wasn't invited to that final trial, but came anyway. I think Goudai knew that he would."