I have never seen you, absent your man by your side.
No need for a translator now.
Or pretenses.
There was a snake, in the village where I was raised...
who mistook an elephant as prey.
It died...
with its jaws wide...
clenched around no more than the elephant's foot,
betrayed by ambition.
Am I the snake...
or the elephant?
What happened to Nobu was...
unfortunate.
I asked for a warrior...
to eliminate...
the Masked Man.
He chose to take it upon himself.
He is a man of pride.
Something well known to you.
What's done...
is done.
And the man in the mask...
you have found his body?
No.
Yet Nobu's clan...
prepare his...
for what is to come.
They are distracted.
But their memories...
and their knives...
are forever sharp.
Is that why you wanted to meet?
To warn me...
of what I already know?
I only sought to pose a question.
How long before...
your ambition turns to me?
You always possessed what the others did not.
My respect.
Perhaps.
Yet...
you are not the man who came to me...
with a dream...
for this city.
He was of a...
singular mind.
Yours now is pulled in two directions...
by longings of the heart.
Is that why we're here?
To discuss...
my private affairs?
No.
We are here...
to discuss your fate.