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Chapter 1157 - 1158: Moral Answer · Oct 23, 2026

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1151 Chapter 1151 - 1152: The Thieves 2026-10-23
1152 Chapter 1152 - 1153: You Can’t Leave 2026-10-23
1153 Chapter 1153 - 1154: The City Lord 2026-10-23
1154 Chapter 1154 - 1155: Who Is Better 2026-10-23
1155 Chapter 1155 - 1156: Begotten Child 2026-10-23
1156 Chapter 1156 - 1157: Savage Beast 2026-10-23
1157 Chapter 1157 - 1158: Moral Answer 2026-10-23
1158 Chapter 1158 - 1159: Charge 2026-10-23
1159 Chapter 1159 - 1160: Witness To Her Power 2026-10-23
1160 Chapter 1160 - 1161: Rich Kids 2026-10-23
1161 Chapter 1161 - 1162: Richman 2026-10-23
1162 Chapter 1162 - 1163: Ray ... Grey 2026-10-23
1163 Chapter 1163 - 1164: Roc 2026-10-23
1164 Chapter 1164 - 1165: Peak Roads 2026-10-23
1165 Chapter 1165 - 1166: A Tune For The Road 2026-10-23
1166 Chapter 1166 - 1167: Search 2026-10-23
1167 Chapter 1167 - 1168: What Comes Next 2026-10-23
1168 Chapter 1168 - 1169: Circle Of Life And Death 2026-10-23
1169 Chapter 1169 - 1170: Human Error 2026-10-23
1170 Chapter 1170 - 1171: Cost Of Mercy 2026-10-23
1171 Chapter 1171 - 1172: Free City 2026-10-23
1172 Chapter 1172 - 1173: Bad Tempered Woman 2026-10-23
1173 Chapter 1173 - 1174: From The Peaks 2026-10-23
1174 Chapter 1174 - 1175: Lure 2026-10-23
1175 Chapter 1175 - 1176: Nothing To Fear 2026-10-23
1176 Chapter 1176 - 1177: Anarchy City 2026-10-23
1177 Chapter 1177 - 1178: Who Hurt You 2026-10-23
1178 Chapter 1178 - 1179: The Weak Forgive 2026-10-23
1179 Chapter 1179 - 1180: Old Grudge Returns 2026-10-23
1180 Chapter 1180 - 1181: Ranar Versus City Lord 2026-10-23
1181 Chapter 1181 - 1182: Call Your Mommy 2026-10-23
1182 Chapter 1182 - 1183: Just A Man 2026-10-23
1183 Chapter 1183 - 1184: Red Blood 2026-10-23
1184 Chapter 1184 - 1185: Lord Of Anarchy 2026-10-23
1185 Chapter 1185 - 1186: Weapon Against Gods 2026-10-23
1186 Chapter 1186 - 1187: We Can Talk About This 2026-10-23
1187 Chapter 1187 - 1188: Purpose Of The Straw Doll 2026-10-23
1188 Chapter 1188 - 1189: All The Reasons 2026-10-23
1189 Chapter 1189 - 1190: Question 2026-10-23
1190 Chapter 1190 - 1191: Family Lore 2026-10-23
1191 Chapter 1191 - 1192: History Behind It All 2026-10-23
1192 Chapter 1192 - 1193: Fate’s Cruel Jest 2026-10-23
1193 Chapter 1193 - 1194: What Felt Right 2026-10-23
1194 Chapter 1194 - 1195: New Patners 2026-10-23
1195 Chapter 1195 - 1196: Old Man In Field Of Black Ash 2026-10-23
1196 Chapter 1196 - 1197: Other World 2026-10-23
1197 Chapter 1197 - 1198: Someone Came 2026-10-23
1198 Chapter 1198 - 1199: He’s Not Here 2026-10-23
1199 Chapter 1199 - 1200: Scale Of Uneven Heaven 2026-10-23
1200 Chapter 1200 - 1201: Taken 2026-10-23

He couldn’t forget the woman’s expression.

A human.

Someone just like him.

Burned alive by savages.

Ranar glanced sideways at him before quietly asking,

”Have you ever killed someone before?”

Her eyes drifted down to his hands.

”They’re shaking.”

Ric lowered his gaze.

Sure enough, the hand gripping his sword trembled ever so slightly.

He had never killed anyone.

His master had trained him to fight.

To survive.

To endure pain.

To hunt monsters.

But Damon had never once ordered him to take a person’s life.

Ric closed his eyes for a brief moment before quietly repeating the words engraved into his memory.

”Murder is a habit, Ric.”

”When you kill to solve a problem, you begin believing killing is the only solution.”

”And soon...”

”...you trap yourself in a circle of murder.”

”A trail of bodies.”

”And enemies with vendettas.”

His grip tightened around the sword until his knuckles turned white.

”However...”

”When you come face to face with someone you must kill...”

”...do not hesitate.”

”Kill them.”

”Some men do good for this world by leaving it.”

The cave became quiet.

Even the children stared at him.

Ranar had never heard anything quite like that before.

She slowly folded her arms across her chest and lowered her eyes in thought.

”Your master...”

”He seems like a tough person.”

She looked back at the fires below, where the lesser orcs were still laughing around the burning corpse.

”Isn’t killing hard?”

Her voice became softer.

”My father always told me that all life is precious.”

”Everyone is important to someone.”

She paused, her fingers unconsciously tightening around her sleeves.

”Even monsters have their own reasons.”

A faint sadness crossed her face.

”After all...”

”...my mother was a monster.”

The moment those words left her mouth...

Everyone turned to look at her.

Even Ric blinked in surprise.

The children exchanged uneasy glances, unsure if they had heard her correctly.

The crackling of the distant fire was the only sound that remained.

”Ahh... what?” Ric said, certain he had heard wrong or that she was joking.

”My mother was a monster,” Ranar repeated calmly.

She had never met her mother, but she had seen her mother’s bone sword. It was one of the few things she had inherited from her.

One thing she knew without question was that her mother loved her, even though she had died before ever truly knowing her.

Ranar had nothing to be ashamed of.

Even if her mother had once been a monster.

She glanced at Ric.

Unlike the other children, whose faces had become noticeably more fearful after hearing her words, Ric only had a curious and excited glint in his eyes.

Ranar bit her lip.

”My mother was an Evil Forest Wendigo.”

”She gained intelligence... and a human form after shedding her monstrous body.”

”When she first met my father, she was nothing more than a beast.”

”And he had wandered into her territory.”

Ric nodded slowly.

He could already picture it.

It sounded like the beginning of one of those stories Damon sometimes told him before bed.

A strange love story.

”Then she tried to kill and eat him.”

”He escaped.”

”But my father...” Ranar sighed, rubbing her forehead. ”He’s someone who always pays back his grudges.”

”So he returned to the Evil Forest...”

”...and slaughtered her clutch of cubs.”

The other children gasped.

Ranar simply continued.

”Filled with hatred, she somehow became a person and hunted him down.”

”Then she lost.”

”And lost again.”

”And again.”

”Eventually my father tricked her...”

”...then she died.”

”And then I was born.”

She summarized the story the same way she had heard it.

Her father had never gone into detail.

Frankly, she had never asked.

The only thing that mattered to her was that her mother loved her.

That was enough.

Whenever she tried to imagine what her mother looked like...

...the first face that always came to mind was Eva’s.

Only afterward did she imagine her real mother.

Eva was the one who had been there.

She bathed her.

Fed her.

Dressed her.

Held her whenever she cried.

Told her bedtime stories.

Slept beside her whenever she had nightmares.

She had done everything a mother was supposed to do.

”Wait...” one of the children suddenly interrupted, scratching his head.

”Your mother died...”

”...and then you were born?”

”Don’t you mean you were born first, then your mother died?”

Ranar shook her head.

”Oh, no.”

”I was born months after my mother died.”

”My father was half dead for the first few months of my life too.”

”So I was raised by a squirrel...”

”...and a raven.”

”Until he finally woke up.”

The children stared blankly at her.

The story was so absurd that it sounded completely made up.

Ranar’s words, however, had cooled some of the murderous intent burning inside Ric.

She looked at him.

”I understand how you feel.”

”They aren’t like you.”

”They’re just common beasts.”

”But as savage as they are...”

”...they’re still a group of people.”

”Their lives have worth too.”

”If you only want to kill them because they’re different from you...”

”...then how are you any different from a monster?”

She clenched her teeth.

”Who says a monster doesn’t have feelings?”

”Who says a monster can’t love...”

”...or hate?”

”If I believed something like that...”

”...I’d be spitting on my mother’s grave.”

Ric lowered his head.

”Then should we just stand here and do nothing?”

”Not all evil people commit evil.”

”Some are evil because they’re complacent to evil acts.”

Ranar glanced at him.

”Did your master tell you that?”

Ric nodded.

”Yes.”

”Then I hope your master is a saint.”

Ric immediately shook his head.

”No.”

”He’s human.”

”That’s how I know he isn’t perfect.”

He really didn’t want to admit that his master wasn’t perfect.

But Damon himself had taught him that.

Nobody was perfect.

People made mistakes.

That was what it meant to be human.

Even Ric living with Damon instead of his real family...

...was one of those mistakes.

”But we don’t have to be.”

”If this is a mistake...”

”...let me learn from it.”

”If it isn’t...”

”...then let me move forward with a clear conscience...”

”...knowing I did the right thing.”

He slowly stood.

Below them, another woman was being dragged from a crude wooden cage.

Ric gripped the hilt of his sword so tightly his knuckles turned white.

His jaw clenched.

His breathing slowed.

He needed a plan.

Not revenge.

A plan.

Ranar stepped beside him and gently placed a hand on his shoulder.

”We need a plan.”

Ric turned his head.

”We?”

Ranar nodded without hesitation.

”Yes.”

”We.”

”I’d never leave a friend behind.”

Ric blinked.

Then a smile slowly spread across his face as he rubbed the bridge of his nose.

”Is that so...”

”...friend?”

Ranar looked away, her ears turning slightly red.

This was her first friend.

Hearing him call her that made something warm bloom inside her chest.

She gripped the sword of light that slowly formed in her hand.

A determined smile appeared on her face.

”Let’s wreck ’em.”

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