Chapter 685
The room was once more divided with that statement between those who were aware and those who weren’t, with the majority who seemed to know coming from the aquatic side since that was where the murders took place.
Of the terrestrial, it seemed there was a lot more shock. Falk at the very least had been unaware as to the reason for the delay and Ben was getting the impression that it was news to most others around him too, many looking surprised with only one among them coming across as excited more than anything.
Yeah, I’m understanding more and more why nobody wants to look at the spooky girl when she’s going to have a reaction like that. More importantly, murder huh?
It immediately made him want to know more, both about the circumstances and the details of it. The why was a big one and he had to hold himself back from doing anything given that he’d somehow already gotten far more eyes on him than he’d planned on when all of that started, doing his best to wait for anyone else to speak up before he resorted to plundering the murderer’s memories to sate his curiosity, with his patience soon being rewarded.
“What? What did you do?” Yuzu asked as she rose from her seat, looking like she already had some idea, with Regnal seeming entirely indifferent to the matter.
“I did exactly what I wanted, should that really be so shocking? And whatever power they held is meaningless when I’m easily worth a hundred of them.”
“We don’t count lives so easily,” Killi told him. “You don’t get to decide who lives and dies because of some personal grudge.”
“Why not, your gods do and I’m supposedly going to be one eventually,” He shot back. “And for that matter, how dare any of you natives judge me, you have no right. Bringing me to this world to fight your enemies and expecting me to forgive mine at the same time, I’d rather this entire world be destroyed than accept those animals.”
The table didn’t take such a statement quietly, opinions were immediately being shouted back and forth in a scene that reminded him of a miniature version of what he saw from the actual gods of the world while Ben began putting together what he was hearing through context, with it looking like all of this stemmed from something Verbum had told him about in the past, a mistake that was objectively on the gods who had brought them to that world.