Ahh, the greed of humans, but who can blame them after all the feeling of power and superiority corrupts people in more ways than they could imagine, once they have it, they'll do almost anything you keep it.

“Hey, should not we take a small break”, said Anya, she was once of the twins, there were 4 of us including me, the twins Anya and Alva and the self-proclaimed hero of justice Delvin

The church wanted to get rid of me, but that was none of my concern, right now I had a different goal, and that was to make these little kids see the reality of the world, fortunately for me, I did not need to create circumstances that would make their beliefs waver, all I needed to do was take them to a city, the wickedness of the people already existed since the dawn of creation, all I needed to do was show them a way for them to see it.

“Break? But we just started travelling”

“Just started travelling? Do you realize how far we just walked, we just went from our kingdom, then to neighbouring kingdoms, and passed through many more in just a few days without any food or sleep? Are you even a human?”, Anya looked totally tired, she was sweating from everywhere, her blonde hair was messed up. Alva was no different. They were breathing heavily. Delvin was also no different, but he was trying to maintain his breathing and poster as he did not want to embarrass himself in front of me who did not look even a bit tired.

“If you were so tired you should have said so before we started travelling you told me things like god might have chosen you but don’t you dare hold us back, if you get tired then we might just leave you behind, seeing you all so confident I thought you might be able to match my pace, but look at you all, you look like you might just collapse from exhaustion, you should have ignored your pride and asked for a break way earlier.”

 They did not even argue back and just collapsed on the land. So, annoying, I did not want to get suspicious for now, so I did not use spatial magic, I even held back my pace, so they could follow.

They finally started to regain their stamina after a few hours. “Don’t we have some food to eat?”, said Delvin, “No, I planned to buy some food supplies in the city but thanks to someone we kept running without stopping, and now we are in the middle of nowhere with nothing to eat.”

I took a sigh, “Hey what are you doing?”, “Shut up and stay still”, I grabbed their head and transferred some of my magic, “Now, you should be able to walk, I can sense people nearby, there should be a city somewhere, let’s go.”

“Finally, a city lets hurry.”

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Alva walked beside me, “Umm, we travelled for days, but we don’t even know your name, shouldn’t we introduce ourselves”

I looked on her face, she had an innocent face like that of a child, “It’s Azrael, Aamon Azrael.”

“Wow, that a wonderful name, I am Alva, this is my sister Anya and he is Delvin.”

“We plan to become heroes of our kingdom, that’s our dream, is there anything you want?”

“Nope, I have no dreams.”

I wanted many things but not like I could say it, she was trying to maintain small talk, and I was just wondering why people talk so much? Can’t they just read the mood and shut up sometimes?

“Is that a smell of smoke?”

“Yes, it is.”

The smell was coming from the village, it was burning, seems like demons had attacked the town.

Alva tried to rush in, but I grabbed her hands, “Stop what are you doing? We need to analyze the situation first?”

“Analyze? People are dying Azrael; we don’t have time to think right now.”

“People die every day, Alva, rushing in without any thought would do us no good.”

“I don’t have time to argue with you”, saying that Delvin tried to move forward, I took out my sword and stopped him, “Stop right there, Delvin.”

“What the hell are you doing? those people need rescuing”

“Yes, but that’s none of our concern, we came here to complete a task, we will complete it and leave.”

Killing all those demons would have been no difficult task for me, I could even save all those people in a blink of an eye if I wanted to, but I had no reason to do that, besides this was the perfect situation to show them a glimpse of the real world. When I thought of travelling the world, I also wanted to become a hero. Still, I realized the concepts of heroes and villains are unnecessary for me while living in this world, Now, I simply wanted to do what I wanted, whether that makes me a hero or a villain I did not care.

“Are you insane, how could we ignore those people who are asking for them? we are not evil, now move aside.”

“Move aside? Take one more step, and I will kill you myself”, I said that while also letting out a bit of blood lust, not too much but just enough to strike fear in their hearts.

“You are not evil? Did you really think saving those people would make you guys some kind of heroes? How naïve!!!”

“The thing you were about to do was not an act of selflessness but simply treachery”, I said that glaring into their eyes

Even under my bloodlust Delvin slowly tried to stand up, “Treachery? What the hell are you talking about, no matter what the situation, saving someone who asks for help, is what it means to be a hero, and not walking away from a fight no matter how hard it is, is what it means to be a warrior.”

He stood up and grabbed my clothes, “I am going to save those people no matter what”, I grabbed his hand that was holding on to my clothes, “Save those people, So Naïve!”