Not Everyone gets a Second Chance.

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Tai Lung was stunned, but he quickly put up his usual cold demeanor to hide everything he felt at that moment. Before he could say anything, Crane was the first to speak up as he walked up to him.

"Well, I guess we won't have to tell our children much about their grandfather, so that's settled." Crane started. "Not that they would even ask about you in the future. I mean, they don't even know who you are."

Tai Lung cocked an eyebrow at Crane.

"Right. And you must be..."

"The pencil-necked nit." Crane answered before Tai Lung could.

"Wait." Tai Lung gawped. "She heard everything back in the tunnels?"

"Seriously? That's what you're more worried about?" Crane asked.

"Look, I didn't mean for things to get this far, but you're all making it out to be a way bigger deal than it needed to be, alright?" Tai Lung retorted. "Most of this isn't even my fault!"

"Oh, then whose fault is it exactly?"

Expecting Tai Lung to snap back again, his question was instead met with silence. Seeing how he was unable to get any words out of his mouth, Crane took the moment to continue.

"It sure as heck isn't Daiyu's fault either. I'm actually really looking out to see who you're going to blame next for all your problems."

Saying that, Crane walked right past Han, who also had something to say to Tai Lung. After glancing sideways at Crane in confusion, he turned around and glared disappointingly at Tai Lung. His glare intensified as Tai Lung grew uncomfortable.

"Are you going to say anything or just stand there and stare?" Tai Lung asked.

Slowly shaking his head, Han's disappointment grew more and more apparent to Tai Lung.

"You've been given all these chances to become better and you've ruined them. All of them!"

"There was no point in taking any of them if everyone here wants nothing more than for me to be gone!" Tai Lung argued.

"The least you could've done was to be a man and have the decency to take responsibility and then leave with your tail between your legs. But instead, you screwed over and killed our most beloved friend, abandoned the daughter you never knew you even had twice and didn't even make an effort to get to know her. I don't think you realize the damage you caused to everyone around you. And frankly, you don't care!" Han seethed.

"I-..."

"No, there's nothing you can say to prove me wrong or make me feel for that sob story of yours when that's nothing compared to what you've put her and other people through! Even after every letter she sent me, after everything she wrote about you, I still don't know why she even bothered to put up with you for so long!"

Tai Lung's ears perked up.

"Letters?"

"Oh, my... If only Lienna could see you now, I wouldn't wanna know what she'd think of you."

Tai Lung's vein slowly started to pop out of his neck upon her name being mentioned. Slowly, he leaned down and glared into Han's eyes.

"You leave her out of this."

To which Han didn't move and gazed at Tai Lung with bitterness, his fists balled. The next thing he said was like spitting out venom.

"She would be so ashamed."

Turning around, Han walked off and soon caught up with Crane, but Po stayed a little longer and gave Tai Lung a sideways glance, before he too followed right after the others. The things that had been said to him and the looks of disappointment and disgust he had been given made him feel like the biggest prick ever.

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