Chapter 758 (1/2)

Chapter 758: Inherited Belief

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“Did you learn this from your parents?”

Sharon nodded and said, “Yes, mainly from my father. He often told me that many things in the world were wrong because no one corrected them, and then people would get used to these wrong ideas as time went by. He taught me that many common things might be wrong and that if none of us stood out to fix them, we would repeat these mistakes and thus make the world worse and worse.”

Wendy said slowly, “But unfortunately nobody would be willing to stand out unless the bad things happened to himself. Just like before, when the church persecuted the witches, most people only cared about the gold royals they could get from the church instead of thinking whether those hanged kids were really evil.”

Sharon said, “What they did is wrong. They thought those mistakes would do no harm to themselves, so they could repeat them for their personal interests. However, the mistakes will make the world worse, and then it’ll become everyone’s problem.”

Surprised by Sharon, Wendy could not help but feel curious about her parents. She pretended to ask casually about them but instead got an unexpected answer. “They’re not my real parents,” Sharon said.

“They’re not?”

As the girl began to talk about her parents, she started eating slower. “Well, my parents are dead. The war destroyed Eagle City and the order of the Southern Territory. After that, homeless refugees and beggars were everywhere and so were robbers. My parents were members of the patrol team, fighting against them, one day, they just didn’t… return home. In the end, the lord of the town fled. Seeing that, all the townspeople left, too. Nowadays, Mapleflower Town had already become a deserted domain.”

“In other words, this tragedy was caused by the ‘Royal Decree on the Selection of Crown Prince’ .” Just as her father said, this absurd decree which seemed to be irrelevant to the people turned out to be a disaster for them.”

Wendy gently touched Sharon’s head to comfort her, saying, “I’m sorry… for bringing up these things.”

The little girl quickly stopped mourning her parents’ death. She dispelled her sadness and recovered, saying, “That’s alright. They were already prepared to sacrifice themselves… My father often said that since mistakes would cost us greatly in the end, we’d better pay the price to correct those mistakes in the first place, which was an honor actually.”

Wendy was moved, thinking, “Honor… Most patrol team members wouldn’t give a damn. They behave like Rats, placing personal benefits above those of the public. When order and discipline stand in the way of personal interests, they won’t hesitate to break them. Given that, Sharon’s real parents were really rare and respectable.”

After a long silence, she said, “Those people who came to see you…”

Sharon licked her fingers and said, “they’re my father’s friends. He helped them before. In the past two years, I’ve lived with him, uncle Cormac, and his wife. They don’t have any kid and treat me like their own daughter.”

Wendy fell silent, thinking, “They did do their best to take care of Sharon. That’s quite a rare thing for an ordinary family.”

After that, she did not say anything and just looked at Sharon eating her dinner.

The little girl finished her last deep-fried pork cutlet and heaved a long sigh of relief, looking satisfied. ‘Thank you. This is the best dinner I’ve ever had.”

Now that Neverwinter was able to provide plenty of food for the people, no one in the city was worried about being hungry anymore. However, meat was still a rare thing on tables of ordinary families. People of which would feel greatly satisfied to simply have a piece of dried meat in their oatmeal. As for this kind of deep-fried half lean meat, only highly paid people such as the alchemists and officials in City Hall could afford them.