Chapter 345 - The Ark Of How Many Lives Lost

The Valkyrie was deathly quiet. She knew that she had to keep her mouth shut for this conversation. It wasn't her place to justify a human's way of upbringing a child or the morals of medicinal practice. If humans are against humans, that's not her problem.

And she has to remember that. Gillian and Baldwin have already chewed her out for meddling in human affairs too much. Right now, the mission that she was doing pushes the boundary between human and Mage morals.

It was starting to fall on the human side of things but Rina was around to merge the two and blur the line. Enough for Mavislin to accept the mission, even if they only had a week to complete it. Though they couldn't feel it, now was day three of the ordeal.

But now wasn't the time to think about how much longer they've got. Mavislin gave a small smile.. She was wondering how a human would fight against a Mage's way of seeing the medicinal world. This was going to be interesting since both of them were the same.

Born to humans and raised with Mageccraft. Both walked different paths but never got a chance to live within the ones in the above-world dwellers. They spent their lives trying to find a place on Earth as they are neither here nor there. But they are now fighting on who has the higher ground.

"I am not but we saved so many lives within the Domain. They died for nothing. And besides, they were farmed by us, so it shouldn't count as individual life," protested Rina, crossing her arms while pouting.

"And that would be justifiable? I know you aren't human, but for god's sake! Hear yourself speak for once!" rebuked Bryan, giving a long sigh after the sentence.

"Don't the words that come out of that mouth of yours sound remotely alright to you? You aren't okay with this, so why did you continue it? And never mind about continuing it, you are still justifying what you've done as 'correct'?! That pisses me off more than anything!"

"How many lives did you take?! Ten, hundred?" asked Bryan, still raising his voice at the petite girl.

"I..." stammered Rina.

"How many?!" boomed Bryan, fully shouting at her.

"I don't remember! There's no way I could remember the lives that I took, no one can!" shouted Rina, afraid of Bryan's sudden outburst.

Well, it wasn't too sudden. Anyone could see that coming from a century away.

"I don't know about you, but I remember how many lives I took. I don't think that's something that you can stop remembering. The weight of an individual life should mean something to you if you are preaching about saving others with cures," argued Bryan.

"Because that's how you see humans as a whole and how much you treasure them. You talk so much about helping the Domain as a whole by using newborn lives as fodder. You are a walking hypocrite. I don't understand why Mavislin agreed to have you on board," continued the Slayer.

"There's no way I could remember how many people I've killed. There were just too many. And besides, we killed hundreds to save millions," replied Rina, trying to recall how many kids were lying dead in her hands.

"What's the point of saving so many when you can't recall the people that you sacrificed?" asked Bryan, placing his hands on his hɨps.

"Without them, your team and yourself couldn't have made the medical breakthrough with so many cures. And yet, for their miserable short lifespan, you can't even remember how many lives you took. I don't think you remember their faces either."

"And how many times I've told myself that it would justify my actions," replied Mavislin, finally chiming in.

Bryan lowered his tensed shoulders as he glanced at Mavislin's darkened eyes. The weight that those eyes hold was more than anyone in the room. If Bryan was scolding Rina for such a small kill count, then he would kill her for her past.

"How many times I wished that that excuse would be enough to stop the nightmares from coming all the time. But when I came to terms with it, I realized that how wrong I was to believe that stupid lie," said Mavislin, thinking back to her time when she first joined Gillian and Ysabeau.

"Then, did you manage to count, the lives that you've taken?" asked Bryan, shyly.

He may be the one shouting just now but she was on a whole different level in his books. He had always regarded her as a role model so he didn't expect her to do mass murder. But he wasn't very close to her. Only a handful knows that she annihilated her entire home planet.