Chapter 49
"Yulianna executed an entire Royal Family five hundred years ago, along with all the Nobles and the high-ranking Military. The country then became a Republic. Everyone who holds political power knows this. ’If you betray the people, they will bite your head off’ is what she said." she was smiling as she said those words.
"What if a Halve gets drunk with power?" I asked. The loop-holes were waving at me.
She looked at me with an unimpressed face.
"Would you rule a country?" she asked me.
"Not at all." I instantly said.
"Well, there you have it." she shrugged. "Halves have never been part of any government."
"What if I commit a crime, then?" I tilted my head. "Who would stop me? No, who could?"
"That is a big point of discussion. A mute discussion, fortunately. You are born with incredible might, yes. At the same time, however, you all understand good and evil. In your own ways, of course. That... is one of the many mysteries. How come the most powerful beings in the world aren’t tempted by power? Are your minds constructed in such a way? Is authority not that seductive when one is born with such might? Is the instinct to protect that much compelling than any mortal temptation?" she smiled. "All questions that have no answer. We have facts and evidence, however. No Halve has ever ruled."
"Well, aren’t we perfect." I scoffed.
"No, you aren’t." Lapia said, putting her book away. "A very long time ago, Holistos, a Halve, destroyed an entire country. Then, other Halves teamed up and killed him. They took his dead body before the Gods and Danuva revealed he was born with a fragmented mind. That has happened three times so far. However, a few individuals do not represent an entire species."
"How did they find that out if he was dead?" that made me skeptical, even for a magical world.