Chapter 46: First Kill
"Kill... you?" Xavier slowly frowned his face as he repeated Bull’s words. "Are you out of your mind? Seriously, how stupid can someone be?! Destiny? Fate?! That doesn’t exist!" he hissed. "How could someone like you believe in that?!"
Bull looked into Xavier’s eyes and couldn’t help but chuckle. "You didn’t believe in the Goddess Astrea either, right?"
"..." Xavier was speechless. It was the truth. Even though everyone in his village prayed to the goddess, he never attended a single sermon. His father was the prophet, the leader, but Xavier didn’t pray to the goddess. However, he had never once thought of them as mindless fools. He knew that there must be a reason why they were doing it.
"Xavier, I understand it’s hard for you to fully grasp the concept of destiny and fate. And it’s natural for you to believe it in. But one day, you will experience it and start to believe in it," he said in a calm voice.
"I don’t want to get involved in all this. Please leave me out of it." Xavier refused to take the gun from Bull’s hands.
"I will give you an example of what destiny is. If you don’t kill me now, Dominic Hart is going to barge inside the next thirty minutes. At the same time, this guy..." He glanced at Maximillian who was still unconscious. "He will wake up and try to kill me. During that, Dominic will think that I am about to kill this guy and he will shoot me. And I will die."
"...! How... do you know that?"
"It’s my last prophecy. I am going to die no matter what. So I want you to kill me instead. Although I am not worthy, I am still considered a prophet," he muttered with a distant smile on his face.
"Then kill yourself. You have a gun. Why do I have to kill you? Why don’t you shoot yourself?"