Chapter 543 - The Morality of War (2/2)

”I don't knohat you're talking about” Said the warrior while pulling the hilt of his sword towards the side of his chest, the veryhim He doesn't have his helmet on You kno silly he looks when he blushes” Said the black-haired wos At no point in hermove from its perfectly stable horizontal position

The warrior in white-gold arrabbed his hel on his lap, and quietly put it no, causing the rest of his co

-----

”I like him” Said Daniel from a dark corner of the restaurant, where hi their otten what kind of person Daniel was, and only remembered him as the mysterious champion of an unknown domain that had taken the time to take them back to the domain of Competition, said with doubt, ”Why? The cha this restaurant will not simply let them eat the food even if he said so Is wasted kindness commendable?”

Unsurprised about Lilith's remark, Daniel took a sip out of his wine cup, and said, ”If you died today, how many would be thankful for your existence?”

Daniel's words surprised Lilith, who, instinctively, thought about her family and friends However, as this list of people formed in her mind, and she prepared herself to answer Daniel's question, she found herself unable to speak

In her domain, connections were supported by cohter, was ultiht about it, the more she came to the conclusion that, if she really died, those whom she believed to be close to her werethe ti

Unable to answer, she looked down in a feeling of shame that was interrupted by Daniel's elbohich tapped the side of her ar at the waitress, which had just coes The moment her eyes landed on her, she heard Daniel's voice say, ”In the kitchen, she was forced to throay the food And yet, look at her”

Lilith paid attention to the waitress, who quietly h the tables She then noticed how, thewarrior in white-gold armor, a warm smile formed on her face A smile that lasted the entirethe party's drinks, and immediately disappeared as she moved on

”Inconsequential, and silly of him to do” said Daniel with a ht now, he would know that, maybe, the waiter would feel bad about it”

In Lilith'sof defeat, but due to her pridefulherself to sied her shoulders, and said with a disdainful tone, ”Why invite unnecessary trouble? Just to feel a little better about yourself? It's even more pitiful”

Daniel did not have a witty response to this

Many times in his life he had found himself in trouble because he had decided to help soretted it He knew that the consequence of different lifestyles would only become obvious at the end of one's life When one would be able to judge themselves and the person they were, and decide whether to be happy with their life so he chose not to continue the argument Instead, he observed in silence as the waiter reached the table of the soldier-looking cultivators, who had not stopped laughing and chatting loudly until now

When the laughs began to die out, a third soldier dressed in a sihtly different military unifore war stories without a drink” He then moved his hand up to his face, and rubbed his te-An action that was shown to be pointless the ht arh power to form a small crack

When he opened his eyes, and turned to look for a waiter, he felt the feeling of a liquid fall fro a wet stain on his pants that resembled a stain of urine

Next to the table stood the terrified waitress, still holding one of the glasses with tres were stiff, like those of a cornered aniiven up on their lives Nevertheless, nothing seemed to happen

The soldier quietly looked down at the stain, and with the index finger and thuht hand, he pulled the moisture out of the fibers of his pants He then turned to look at the soldiers he ith, and said, ”Of course you can't find useful people in Horror's dolob of alcoholic liquid becahtened into what looked like a transparent toothpick, which after being fully formed, shot towards the forehead of the waitress at a speed that was beyond anything that could be captured with the naked eye

None of these small actions had attracted any form of attention from the dozens of cultivators present in the restaurant However, when the large figure of the warrior clad in white-gold armor appeared behind the terrified waitress in a fraction of a blink of an eye, with two fingers clenched around the toothpick that was just about to pierce the woman's forehead, the buzz of chatter stopped, and the eyes of every other customer collectively turned towards him