Well, as a dedicated researcher of lost ancient lore, Jail is probably one of the people more likely to consider 'woo-woo mystical stuff' like seers and whatnot plausible. I'm not really clear on whay his canon motivations were, becoming a conquering monarch seems like it would eat up a lot of valuable SCIENCE! time - if it was just a case of "I'll show them all!" you could quite possibly get him to convince himself to dosomething less generally troublesome just by asking for clarification on those points.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows