☀️ Arselia and Akonia

Beata chuckled.
“An interesting book, it sounds fun just from the description. Truly, sometimes overthinking can be harmful.”
“Indeed. It turns out the villain dug his own grave with his plans. On the other hand, you can’t blame him – what if he had underestimated his opponent?”

— I think haste in drawing conclusions, suspicion, and pride played a role here. He thought that if someone disrupted his plans, it must have been intentional, and that the one who disrupted them was extremely cunning and dangerous. After all, you can’t just accept that someone interrupted a complex scheme created by the great and unparalleled you, simply by chance, can you? That’s what happened here – personal flaws prevented the sorcerer from assessing the situation rationally.