Thread:Shrev64/@comment-31999953-20190822234555/@comment-31999953-20190823153155

Thank you. I never really thought about it before either tbh before I read the information here. That's what got me thinking.

I don't think it was self-exile, in fact I'd say it's highly unlikely. Panda King never goes into detail about it, it's kind of just stated then moving on. However, Tsao makes some comments to Sly during their battle in Laptop Retrieval, which I just completed and with your question in mind, here are his exact words: "Once I "convinced" her father to take up meditation, she was ripe for the picking." I read that as one of two ways: A, Tsao abducted Jing King and simply exiled Panda King, so pretty straight forward or B, which I think might be more likely, Tsao went the extra mile and used his black magic to place the Panda King in the trance the gang finds him in at the beginning of the episode. It's not like that sort of thing is unheard of in the Sly games. To back that up further, two of Tsao's tiger guards can be seen patrolling around the shrine where Panda King is meditating, which makes it seen like his little meditative retreat wasn't completely voluntary.