Villain Path

Chapter 62. Breaking the Curse in a Classical Way

"Do you love me?"

Muan was taken aback by this question.

"So you love?" Shen repeated impatiently.

"Yes, I love you!.."

In general, he was going to say "I hate", but then he thought: "Maybe say something else?..".

"I love you?" prompted Shen.

Muan took a deep breath.

"It's just incredible how you annoy me!" He announced, pushing Shen aside and getting to his feet.

"Fuh," he said with relief. "So this is no longer Pad Sallan."

"He took my sword without permission!" Meanwhile, Muan continued to grumble, turning away from him. "I had to walk back to my residence for over an hour! Then he threw my precious sword on the bridge like some kind of rubbish! And he himself is not clear where he got to! And you can't really explain anything to me! And it makes me angry! Why should I care about this at all?"

"So I would not worry. I would have returned your sword to you later, nothing would have become of it."

"And with you? Wouldn't it be with you?"

"Well, as you can see, it did not become the same."

Muan frowned at him.

"Now it is in the order of things for you to relax in the fresh air all night long? Decent people, even in summer, prefer to sleep in their own beds at night."

"Well, they are decent people!" Shen chuckled as a matter of course.

He looked down at his left hand and, unexpectedly for himself, saw there not one ring, but two.

"So it was all real..." he muttered.

[Congratulations! +10 points for completing the quest "Finding rings"!]

This state of affairs did not please Shen at all.

«Why only ten points?» he asked, but System did not respond.

"Shen, you don't think... you don't think you are acting a little..."

"Don't say wrong!" interrupting Muan, he pleaded.

"No, I wanted to say "unhealthy"."

"Seriously? Do you care about this? Do you care how I act? Do you care how much energy I expand? Even if now you think it is your sacred duty to monitor my "demonic transformation" and be close, you may not be that close."

"Don't you want to see me?"

"It finally dawned on you!"

Muan gazed silently at his face. Frankly, Shen expected him to snort and leave, but he stayed where he was.

"Aren't you going to leave?" asked Shen.

"You don't feel anything," Muan said, looking at him intently. "You said all this not because you are overwhelmed with emotions. You don't feel anything at all right now."

Shen listened to himself and quickly realized that he was absolutely right. His emotions, as well as his life, froze along with the third ring on his finger. And he said this now more out of old memory, and not because he was actually angry.

"Well," Shen shrugged. "It doesn't matter. The essence does not change from this."

Muan continued to stare at him in silence.

"I want to help you," he finally said quietly and firmly.

Shen was not impressed at all.

"You know, there was a time when I wanted you to help me," he chuckled. Now that he no longer felt anything, he could calmly say it. If he had remained the same, he would hardly have dared to do so. "Not so long ago I came to you for help. Do not remember? I flew to your peak when the first student was killed. Of course, I asked for your help. I don't know how it was necessary to ask louder. Anyway, I don't know how to ask louder. Now ... I don't need anyone else's help anymore. I don't need anyone at all. And don't try to confuse me again now. Is this behavior worthy of a glorified warrior?"