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The prophet had yet to give his own name, but Gundham would worry about that later. More pressing was that the pale man said the prophecy had been meant for him and asked what it meant pertaining to him. He sat in thought for several moments, echoing the words in his mind.

"When the day come in which the forest shrinks..."

A forest was going to shrink? How? The only way he could think of this is by fire, but regardless, that part was unclear to him.

"... the pure of heart shall usher forth a change of leadership and arise in immortality."

Pure of heart? Surely that couldn't be him... at least, not the person he fronted. Deep, deep down in the part of him he kept under lock and key, he knew what this could mean. To the true Gundham, this prophecy foretold his bursting out of confinement, taking over the false persona he fronted to everyone else and partially to himself. "In immortality" would mean this change would last the rest of his life and into the afterlife.

But he did not acknowledge this, not now. He was still too far under the murky waters of his own creation. To the Overlord of Ice, the prophecy meant one thing: Of course; this prophecy foretells of the rise of the Tanaka Empire! I knew it must be fated to happen.