Chapter 94: Used to Dying (2/2)

Jom softened his expression and answered calmly.

Even if they couldn’t revive themselves, even if their entire team was wiped out, they’d be up and running just three days later!

Being trapped in the small black room for three days is pretty rough, but now as long as they were still able to read through the forums, three days was nothing!

Joey was stunned.

He thought of himself as having seen it all, every time something good was hunted up in the village, he was the one who brought it to the neighboring city to sell, he could easily read someone’s expression.

That’s why he was sure, when this Jom kid was speaking, he wasn’t joking. He didn’t fear death at all, his face was calmer than a lake on a sunny day.

‘So that’s how it is, I should’ve known.’

Joey was vexed.

He had heard from some friends back in the city that a few churches put children through inhumane trials and tests to train them to be able to receive Divine Blessings.

They threw young children into the cruel jaws of war with only the barest of survival skills, pushing these innocent kids through the stages of maturity with blood and iron, strengthening their wills and weeding out the weak so they may eventually become the heart of the church.

And these two kids were probably living such a life.

They were still so young, and yet they showed the battle prowess of a worn veteran. They had grown accustomed to matters of life and death and viewed the prospect of dying as an everyday matter… How many vile, barbaric acts did they have to witness to be able to think of death as nothing?

Have they witnessed countless of their friends die? How many times have they had to crawl back up from the brinks of their demise? Or have their souls been clawed empty from their unspeakable trauma?

Maybe the reason they walked headfirst into doom, was because death was their only escape from this savage reality.

Thinking of their ‘traumatic’ past, Joey couldn’t help but feel sorry for them.

“You don’t have to do this, children should be allowed to act like children! You should never treat death as an escape, come with me! From now on it’s okay if you live a normal life, I will protect you!” Thus, the fatherly love spilled forth from Joey, declaring to Jom and Terry with all his heart, “Let us rebuild a family together, if you’d like, you can call me ‘Dad’ too!”

Jom: ?????

Jom couldn’t fathom how exactly Joey could come to that… interesting conclusion. Did he just tell them to call him ‘Dad’?

From the sidelines, Terry’s brain had come back online and he wasn’t pulling any punches.

“I decline.”

He somewhat morosely looked at his crispbread laying on the floor, saying to Joey, “You’re the one that threw everything away, even your home, at the first sight of danger. I don’t want a father like you, who knows if the next time trouble comes, we’ll be the ones you choose to throw away.”

Joey looked like he had been struck by lightning, freezing up like a zombie. He dragged his feet back to the rest of the villagers, wondering what he had done wrong.

Jom was pretty upset by this turn of events, he had wanted to diss the guy’s face off, what was he going to do now?