Chapter 388: A Mentor

Chapter 388: A Mentor

"Well, Who is the kid?" Haru asked pointing at the girl who was sleeping on Zenobia's lap, it was the same kid who was glaring at him before.

She had been trying to stay awake in order to keep an eye on Haru for some reason but ended up falling asleep on Zenobia's lap as she kept her hand on the kid's head.

"I found her when she was trying to steal food from our stock," Zenobia smiled softly.

"Oh, she must have good senses," Haru muttered since it would take a good amount of skills to be able to bypass a number of people. Zenobia's group at the time wasn't big but their food stock was well guarded, so that spoke of the kid's talent.

"She has that, but she also has a bad sense of life," Zenobia said and explained further about what happened.

When she caught the kid, Zenobia didn't look mad at all, and even at the time she wasn't really angry at the kid as she herself knew what it was like to be forced to live that way.

But the kid...

"You can kill me, I know I am a bad person," That was all the kid said.

The child's sense of normalcy was wrapped in a few days, it was clear she had seen people fight over food and even kill others who stole the food from them.

The kid was fully aware of that and still chose to do it while knowing what can happen to her.

And when she was caught rather than crying and begging for forgiveness like a normal kid her age would've done, she accepted the result if she got caught because she was sure that she was a bad person for doing such a thing since if she steals the food to fill her stomach someone else who the food belonged to will starve in her place and die.

And Zenobia could understand why this little girl was so ready to give up her life.

Zenobia had always thought that she was lucky to her teacher found her and was able to get out of the life of constant stealing from other people or from the kids and bums in the slums as well. Ñ00v€l--ß1n hosted the premiere release of this chapter.

Zenobia has never seen herself as the good person that the people of her continent made her out to be, her actions may have saved the lives of people but it was never her intention.

'If I was a good person I would have made a weapon for anyone since that would help protect more people and not narrow down my vision based on senseless criteria,' That was Zenobia's own thought about herself, she knew her decision to do so could've been a detrimental blow to her continent if they were to fight Agrona who was already planning on taking her away at a moment's notice.

But even knowing that she didn't plan on lowering the requirements she had set in place, they were there was a reason, and changing them would only further her from the actual goal she had in mind.

It was like her teacher had said, if you make a compromise once, you'll just keep on making them forever.

"Hopefully I can be something similar to her," Zenobia muttered slowly looking at the girl who was sound asleep.

"Ahaha yes, take care alright it will be quite cold tonight," Haru laughed as he walked away waving which made the two question...

'Why are we waving back?'

Anyway, leaving their dilemma aside Haru walked around the building and soon reached where he sensed the person who he wanted to talk to.

"There you are," Haru spotted Pil-du sitting on a bench in the middle of the empty parking lot smoking a cigarette while keeping an eye on the surroundings.

"Why are you here?" Pil-du asked with displeasure clear on his face.

"Geez straight to the point, No greetings or anything?" Haru said as he walked over and sat down on the bench.

"We weren't exactly on terms that would require them," Pil-du said and Haru laughed with a nod as if he already knew this would be his answer.

"So, why are you here?" Pil-du clicked his tongue and asked again.

"Stuff happened and here I am, the main question is, why are you here?" Haru asked and Pil-du's frown got deeper.

The very reason Pil-du left Chung-muro was because he didn't want to work under someone else, but here he was doing exactly that and he didn't seem to hate it at all.

'He seems very serious for some reason,' Haru thought while looking at Pil-du with curious eyes which were pissing the latter off.

"My wife and daughter," But Pil-du didn't lash out, he spoke calmly after taking a puff.

"Hmm?" Haru tilted his head and Pil-du continued.

"She saved them, I came on this side searching for them hoping they were alive somehow and thankfully they were saved from those Werewolf bastards," Pil-du's hand tightened on the bench's armrest of the terrace just thinking about what could've happened to his wife and daughter.

Just the thought alone was enough for him to shred those bastards alive, and he still would've done it if they weren't killed by the group from Seoul penitentiary group.

And this was how he ended up working under Zenobia installing his military zone in key places to guard against monsters that tried to enter their settlement.

"So, I have a question for you as well," Pil-du said and Haru nodded.

"Sure," Haru had zero problems with questions.

"You don't plan on deceiving our leader, do you?" Pil-du asked as he kept his eyes on Haru as if to examine even the most minute detail to somehow get a hint of whether his next words would be a lie or not.