Complexity can be binding. It arises when you're not looking. One may as well begin simply and see what comes.

[Kratos pauses in his writing at Yuan's coughing fit, even shifts to move to support him before the fit ends, and they both settle. Kratos, however, still looks Yuan's way.]

Such a future depends on the war continuing.

[Despite all of Yuan's words earlier, it doesn't sound much like Yuan's thought past the war himself.]