Keeping the kirin around with a sealed horn to lend legitimacy to the pretender was the strategy used in Shadow of the Moon, although Asen apparently intended to prevent Taiki from returning to his kirin form, along with denying him the use of his shirei, the assumption being that he could control a small child.

But that was not the Taiki he ended up with.

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