Going against the other Scions… Rex wasn't ready.
He still had many enemies that were still circling him like a family of hyenas—waiting for him to make a mistake so that they could kill him and destroy everything he had built over the years. Adding enemies to the existing ones sounded extremely foolish.
But he already accepted the anger from the Uncrowned Matron of Ire.
It was already done.
Either way—be it he went through with what he was doing or went back on his word, he would have new enemies that wanted him dead. Among those two sides, it's better to have enemies on the outside of the stratum he was in.
That way, he would still have a side.
Going back on his words, on the other hand, would only anger the Scions of the Anger Stratum.
And since the Scions of the Sadness Stratum didn't recognize him as one of them, they would not help him in any shape or form. For Rex, it was an easy choice to make. He would go with the Uncrowned Matron of Ire and be done with it.
