[ This is...a keen reminder that Jing Yuan himself had quite the many irons in the fire, blinking as everything so happened to be displayed before Malice's eyes in a quick succession of images that barely left much of a breather.

Intentional, perhaps, for a man who prided himself on his calm; his patience. And someone else beside him who had been going through the turmoil of his own emotions. Or maybe that is simply his mind placing these kinds of reasons in the first place. When Malice's attention is turned to Jing Yuan he doesn't look tired, though he does sigh; not at him, but a reminder of his responsibilities. And what rests upon his shoulders...a duty in which he has been unable to tend to for quite awhile now. ]

I suppose you can say that I did, yes.

It might not...quite make much sense to you, given the myriad problems occurring based upon what you witnessed, but it is something that keeps myself quite occupied back at the Xianzhou Alliance.

[ Luocha, the unexplainable seemingly return of his Master, other matters going on in the background, and himself putting his own plans into motion. ]

To put it simply, there were quite a lot of incidents in a small span of time based upon intruders, and in the aftermath there are many loose ends that need to be wrapped up.