The sky splits in two with a crack as lightning races toward the pillar. Atop the pillar is a boy in chains, and his oppressor, with a blade.
Blue fire springs to life and the platform falls. The boy and the man are hidden, still; a straw hat drifts to the cobblestone ground, in the rain.
The boy emerges from the rubble of the platform, laughing. He places the straw hat on his head firmly, expressing his surprise at surviving.
Never knowing the heavens had crowned him King.