Chapter 721: My therapist said it’s good to let out my emotions from time to time
The silence persisted for about ten seconds before someone asked in a tremble. "W-wait--that’s...that must be a lie...right?"
[No, it’s not] I replied calmly, complete with a smile. As nice as I could give them. [We have even generously prepared a ship for you to return to your damn Empire, so you can return to your current residence and pack your belonging starting now]
Was I not generous enough? I had asked Midas to send a ship last night, the moment we determined that the tunnel was connecting the island to the palace. Zarfa’s father had said he would send a ship right away through the river, so it should arrive around the afternoon.
See? I even gave them time until the afternoon after a whole week of notice. Surely, half a day was enough for them to pack their bag and wares? Once again, I had warned them for a week. The foolishness of their Lord was not at all my business.
Especially for the merchants and the people who had access to information about the rest of the Human Realm, it was inexcusable. They should have known what was happening in those kingdoms; the purge that the templars and the golem army had been doing. They would have received information about the confession of the sinners and knew that this moment would come sooner or later.
If they hadn’t packed their stuff even after knowing that, then once again, it wasn’t my business.
But of course, there would always be people who could not understand my generosity. Desperate people, greedy people, shameless people. Their motivation was different, but for me, at that moment, they were all the same.
"No! You can’t just do that! This is our home!"
"Do you not have any pity? Don’t you have a heart?! We have children!"
"You can’t just chase us away from our land!"
Men, women, parents, merchants...these normal citizens who shout desperately, I understood them. I knew they were scared of losing the place where they had lived all this time. Some were probably even born in this place instead of migrating from the Empire. For those people, this place was their homeland.