Chapter 249 Lnstinct (2/2)

"Are you…okay with that?" asked Aldrich

"Mhm" The Chrysalis nodded "I want to help lots and lots of people, but I also know bad things happen to bad people"<del>? ???a ??????</del>

Aldrich felt a sense of deja vu Bad things happen to bad people This was exactly what he had said when he was a kid What he had believed

And it was because that belief, belief in some sort of karmic justice, had been shattered with his parents' deaths that he in large part turned into who he was today

"I just don't know Was he a bad person?" The Chrysalis asked Aldrich

"Yeah He was," said Aldrich

"Okay I trust father the most So I don't feel too bad then" The Chrysalis nodded, swishi+ng her crystalline white tail froly then what should have been obvious The Chrysalis was not human She never had been Even if she approximated a human's soul, fundamentally, she was not one

As a variant, the Chrysalis's instincts meant she could take life and death in stride Every animal kne to kill or be killed He could tell now that her instincts were strong enough that if she had to fight and kill, she would

Especially when it cauys dying or suffering, if she had to even take one down, then that was sis were

"Explore ti She so!"

"Let's go," Aldrich nodded, beholding the Chrysalis's smile He did not uys He hi his status now as a Lich

Rather, he found it convenient Less need to tiptoe around the Chrysalis's innocence, at least when it ca

"Perhaps the Death Lord was indeed right," said Valera as they all left the truck She looked down at the Chrysalis happily skipping along across the dry desert brown earth "Perhaps she is far stronger than we think"

"I think so too," confir!" said the Chrysalis, confident Her eyes ide as she looked around at the nomad compound all around her The early dawn sun hting trucks and motorcycles and cars that the Chrysalis wondered at

There were a few no hello to the Chrysalis, with her waving back with enthusiasm whenever she could

By now, Aldrich noticed, he was known enough that the nomads did not care that he wore a suit That none of them showed any hostility to hienerally well received a?" asked the Chrysalis after she was done waving another round of hellos

? ?? ??-?? ??? ??? "A place to get you a na wheel structure of the Wanyudo Aside froh they were prepping to do so very soon

Z was still here, and that meant she could create a CID for the Chrysalis Which was also an opportunity to give her a proper name