"I'm retired," Edward snorted. "You also didn't answer my question, I note."
Rui turned towards the television screen that replayed the launch of the first wave of fleets into outer space. He found them to be more mundane than he might have otherwise expected, but the sight of fleet spaceships in space entering warp drive was a lot less alluring than a rocket taking off from Earth, like in his previous life.
"Why ask questions to which you already know the answer?" Rui raised an eyebrow, turning towards the old man.
He had started visibly aging after retiring, which meant that he had probably turned off the immortality he got from Rui, clearly a very personal decision that reflected a desire not to live forever.
"Hmph, damn mind-reader," the old man snorted.
"I didn't even need to in order to know that you know why I am choosing to act this way," Rui replied blankly.
