"…" Robin lowered his gaze and began rubbing his forehead slowly, as if trying to ease a growing headache. "Now, old man? Now you decide you want to become a family man and simply watch everything burn? Now, at the single most critical and fragile moment the universe has faced in the last tens of millions of years?"
"I didn't withdraw during the critical moment," the Cosmic Elder replied calmly, shaking his head. "The critical moment appeared because I withdrew. There's a difference." He paused briefly before continuing. "I am not a traitor who abandoned what he was sworn to protect at the moment of greatest need. I just…" He exhaled softly. "I no longer feel that same overwhelming urge to interfere in everything, at every moment. Can you understand that?"
