BXBX NOVEL Chapter 110 - What Really Matters
It was a full moon night, In the middle of a rocky road, two carriages were travelling to the road, in the front carriage, Alfonso and Artemis where currently sleeping, while in the second carriage Demeter was \'sleeping\', in front of him a young man with brown short hair and was currently looking at the sleeping Demeter. In the foot of Demeter, a small white dog was currently sleeping.
"I had this feeling that she isn\'t sleeping at all" Though Lucio.
It has been three days since they departed from Tulip town towards Arcadia, For Lucio however, this trip was filled with uncertainness. At the end of the day, he accepted the deal that Alfonso proposed.
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"A mission from Asteus?" Said Alfonso.
"That\'s right, it seems that he was preparing to send one of his champions to Wasteland Valley, however, all of them were busy so he delegate the work to his subordinate, the god of war Destroyer, an oracle from the Pentagate house send the message to us, however, after knowing that we needed to go to the north, my father insisted that we shouldn\'t do it, but you know, we can exactly say "no thanks" to our deity, so we try to find a loophole so we could sneak in, coincidently, the lady of the Viritia house, Sana Viritia, came to us requesting assistant to one particular job, we didn\'t know exactly what it was, but we accepted anyway and they send me" Said Lucio to Alfonso.
"Now think about it, it seems to much of a coincidence that ALL the champions of Asteus were busy, so I think that this all plan has something to do with the Veritias, I don\'t why though" Said Lucio.
Alfonso stood quiet for some time, before nodding.
"I believe you, as I promise, I will give you back your powers, however, you must wait until we get to Arcadia, once you don\'t present a treat to us anymore, you will have your powers back" Said Alfonso.
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"Really naïve, this fallen prince, or stupid should be the correct answer, he is actually going to give me back my powers? If I were him, I wouldn\'t give a damn, was the use to having one more enemy? You may as well destroy the problem from its root" murmured Lucio.
"I think the same"
Suddenly, a voice came to Lucio\'s ears, he looked up and saw that this goddess lady was looking at him. He instantly felt a shiver from his back.
One must say that Lucio really seems to have suffer some kind of trauma, because every time Demeter opened her mouth, he felt like he had a knife pressing on his neck.
"However, he has something that you don\'t, and that crucial thing, is the big difference between the two of you" Said Demeter.
"W-what is it?" Despite he being as scared as he was, he put some courage and asked.
"He has honor"
"He knows that you are likely to take revenge, yet, he still plan to give you back your powers, why? Because he promised to do so, nothing else" Said Demeter.
Lucio chuckle.
"What\'s the use of having honor if you are death?" Said Lucio.
"You can\'t understand that, but to be fair, neither do I, and that is because we and him have different types of view from the world and its people, he thinks that all of us are equals and he treat us in that way, despite being royalty, he is still able to felt the same feeling that a commoner would felt, that isn\'t charity or sympathy, that is empathy, on the other hand, you see people as they were inferior to you, no, to be more precise, you don\'t felt that they are humans at all, for you they are only ants, if you crush a few of them, you wouldn\'t felt sorry, the same goes for me, to me, you and everyone who isn\'t Alfonso\'s ally are ants, if I crush a few of them, I wouldn\'t felt sorry, not in the slightest" Said Demeter.
Lucio was stunned from this sentence.
"I don\'t get it, you obviously are strong, you are stronger than me, if you wanted, you could go to any other of the four houses, and they will treat you with respect, you could get anything you want! Money, men, power, you could be a sovereign, people could only look up to you, yet, you decided to stay here, under the wing of a stupid prince, what is your goal? What can he gave you than I can\'t!?"
"Untied me and come with me to the Pentagate family, I know that I was rude to you at the beginning, I apologize, however, as both of us are equals, I ca let bygones be bygones, think about it! With your power and my influence, I will be the next head of the Pentagate family! And you, you will be the queen that governs by my side" Said Lucio.
Demeter didn\'t interrupt him, she just stared at him.
"Money? Power? I don\'t any of that, I always have them, and if I don\'t, I don\'t need you to give me those, I can get them myself, as for men, I don\'t need \'men\' I only need one man, and its sleeping ahead of us." Said Demeter.
"Let me give you one piece of advice, take however you feel like it"
"At the very end, when you are at the door of the death and the king of hell is reclaiming your soul, the power that you hold will pass to someone else, the money that you have will not amount anything to Charon and the women that you treasure so much will be waiting for you to died so they can spend your money."
"At the very end, what you keep with you, it\'s just the feeling that you did nothing wrong, so no one has debts with you to settle"
"The question here is, Lucio Pentagate, when you die, how many people will be waiting for you to settle the accounts?" Said Demeter.
Lucio couldn\'t maintain his composure and looked at her with a surprised and yet, scary expression.
Demeter didn\'t say anything else, she closed her eyes and sleep for the rest of the journey.
One and a half week later, the small caravan arrive to Arcadia.