Chapter 110 - One-Hundred-Six (2/2)

They sicken me.

I mark in the back of my mind: Need to go there after everything is done and free all creatures from their grasp.

”That's not the kind of tone someone who is asking a favor should use.” I say smirking.” And my answer is no. Go back to the iceberg you belong to.”

”You…!” They seemed irritated by my answer. Good.

”Come on, let's go.” I say to the hounds as we turn around to leave; and I wasn't worried about a sneak attack, after all, not even the strongest human would have haft of my level, not even them.

Maybe my human conscious, or even appraisal, made this level difference possible, but I could not care less about the humans being so low level like this; Only the cultivators and some elves worried me, but one were hidden in the mountains, and the other blessed me with my sir name.

Now let's just teach the demons a lesson so we can go back to bullying the people from the North.

That brought a smile to my face.

Isa and the Templar follow us as the hounds depart with me, leaving the group of burly men and women with a stupid face behind.

Really now did they think they could come here, treat me that way, and get anything from me? I bet they would try to threaten me next.

Seriously? You go to a dragon's nest to threatened them? You are only seeking death like this, by being burned into a crisp that is.

With a few moments of delay the twins follow us but do not join the group, instead to talk a lot and beg mostly.

”Thilgon, please, I beg of you, my people are out there being slaved and hunted down like animals! Women, children, people who have nothing to do with your dispute, innocent people! They are in changes, with f.u.c.k.i.n.g chains on their neck like freaking beasts! Being used like they are nothing more than animals! Please Thilgon! ”

”Well, let's see how you feel being treated like an 'animal' now then.” I say without looking back nor stopping with an ice-cold tone; hasn't he just described how my kind is treated for years without anyone carrying about them?

He stops walking then, watching our backs as we keep moving, only to say in a low voice.

”How disappointing.”

I stop.

”I thought so highly of you, was a fan even. I was so excited when we meet, but I guess I expected too much of you…”

With those words I turn back around, stare him deep into his eyes in such an unfriendly way that his brother tensed on the side, hand ready to draw his dagger.

I walk back towards the younger twin in slow deliberate steps, my face stiff and unmoved like their faces are when they treat my kind badly.

I stop right in front of him, letting the silence sink in and make him uncomfortable as I say, very slowly and deliberate: ”You would do anything to save your people would you not?” He nods.” And yet, what your kind is passing through now is what mine has suffered and still does for centuries. Chains, cages, slavery… All of that is nothing new to us, but I never saw anyone trying to rescue my kind...how odd…

And yet you plea and cry, and yet you ask me to help out the northern people, who were the ones responsible for 'my' kind suffering, one of many. And yet, poor you, such disappointment because I do not help the people who kill mine to save yours from the ones that kill them, really, a shame indeed…

But please, continue, talk about how disappointed you are, how disgraceful it is, how 'I' am the heartless one that does not care about others, but let me just tell you how disappointed I'm of 'you'” He lowers his head, unable to keep his eyes still with my increasing angry gaze, and just noticing how taken by his own people's problems he was to realize what he just did, what he has truly asked of me to do.

And too ashamed to even apologize.

No worries though, I'm used to it by now.

”Would you do anything to save them?” I ask again.

”O-of course.” He says.

”Then go back to your… friends and take them to Edovine, I'll talk to the elves to send someone there to talk with them, though if they are going or not is none of my businesses.” He smiles, but before any words can leave his mouth I add: ”And after that, do not come looking for me anymore ever again. We are even now. Goodbye.”

That just shows how loyalty worth's little nowadays.

And that makes me realize how tempting it was to go back to the old me; on how it would be easier to just… erase it all.

Tempting indeed…