Chapter 510 A Subjective Matter

"Anyway, everything aside, are you going to tell me that or not?" Lucifer asked seriously this time.

Lith smiled and answered, "how about n—"

Lucifer took a step ahead and held Lith's collar. She brought his face close to hers and said seriously while looking him straight in the eyes,

"Enough of your shenanigans. I'll give you one opportunity to say the answer, if you don't, I'll throw you straight into a dungeon."

Lucifer, although appearing as a neet, was at the end of the day the Demon Queen. She was an extremely powerful lady in the world and also top most demon that ruled over the demons and devils alike. 

She was bound to have some authority and Lith was just a child. She couldn't simply let him play with her, could she?

Lith, looking at Lucifer be so serious, could tell that she would really do that to him. It seemed play time was over and it was serious talks happening.

Although Lith also had no choice but to do as she has asked. It was because he was weak and could easily be suppressed by Lucifer if she so wanted to.

Lith knew one fact. Winning over the Demon Queen was easy yet difficult at the same time and the same was the case with suppressing her.

To suppress Lucifer, Lith had to become stronger than her. That was about it.

But it was difficult because even Lith had no idea how long it'll take for him to become a Supreme Rank.

Until he was a Supreme, he could only get bullied and suppressed by Lucifer.

"Why are you so curious about it though? It's not like knowing it is going to help you in anyway." Before Lith answered, he just wanted to make sure what kept her so interested.

Lucifer wrinkled her nose and said, "it's just curiosity. Also, you were supposed to answer me, not question me back. Do you really want to get trained more?"

Lith shrugged. He then said, "well, can you back away a bit? I might accidentally end up kissing you if you are this close during the explanation."

Lucifer rolled her eyes. Her nephew was as shameless as one could be and was delaying it a lot. She was starting to get annoyed. 

Backing away a bit, she said, "seriously, if you don't satisfy my curiosity, I'll probably kidnap you and do something against your will." 

Lith clicked his tongue as he heard that. He knew he had to answer her now by any means or she might really do that.

Until he was a Supreme Rank, he had no choice but to get suppressed. Although he could tell his mother or Arya to handle Lucifer, that would not be a good thing.

If he couldn't defeat Lucifer by strength, he still had the ways with words. By the small interaction he had with her before, he could tell that it was not impossible to do so.

In any case, for now Lucifer had to be explained about the path as there was no other way.

After Lith told her about the third path, she couldn't help but ask,

"Isn't anti-hero a genre in novels and anime?" 

Lith nodded. "Villain also is a genre. There could be a villain main character."

Lucifer then said, "yeah and you said it's about 'do as you see fit'. So does that mean demons are all anti-heroes?"

"No idea really." Lith shrugged.

"See… demons do care about some stuff. Like their families, bloodline, or maybe treasure. They could do anything to protect them, even if it meant antagonizing the whole world." Lucifer answered.

Lith thought about it and replied, "will they go so far to even antagonize you?"

Lucifer chuckled. "They wouldn't dare." 

"Are you sure?"

"100%. There would be many who wouldn't dare, but those minority that would indeed do it, wouldn't live to see the next day anyway. So you can count them off." Lucifer said as a matter of fact.

Lith could smell narcissism of Lucifer by hearing that comment, but he didn't call her out for it. He instead said, 

"So the ones that do care about their stuff as you said, what if… say you killed some demon's family that he cherished dearly, what would his reaction be? Will he resist you or will he let them go so that he could live on?" 

Lucifer didn't even need to think about it as it was easy to answer. She said, "of course he'll give up his family for his own live."

Lith nodded. "Then he probably doesn't care about them. He's not on an anti-hero path, but a villain one. An anti-hero has qualities of a hero and also a villain. He would protect his loved ones even till his last breath, even if it means antagonizing the whole world."

As Lucifer heard it, she thought about things more deeply.

Looking at her expression, Lith added his opinions, saying, 

"If I am to say what path the demons are, they are definitely on the villain path. But then again, it's all a subjective thing. If you see demons from a human perspective, they'll appear as villains. But if you see it from the perspective of vampires, they'll just appear normal, nothing like heroes or villains."

"What I am trying to say is, these paths are relative. They vary person to person. You may think of someone as a villain but someone else may think of the same person as a hero."

"So… if there isn't any refrence point, we can't come to a proper conclusion about such things." 

On Earth, everything was taken in accordance with the humans. They were the reference points and they would decide who would be bad and who would be good.

According to them, one who commits crimes and doesn't care about anyone but himself is a villain. The crimes could be as simple as punching an elderly or could be heinous such as committing a genocide.

However in this world, the humans weren't the only beings that resided. There were vampires, dragons, demons, and so many more races.

The humans couldn't be taken as a reference to judge things by any means since among the Demon race, eating humans wasn't a crime, but a daily thing.

A Demon shouldn't be called a villain just for eating his food, should he?

Thus, since everything was subjective, it changes the whole meaning of the two paths.

Lucifer, after she roughly understood everything Lith had said, asked him,

"Right. Then if I see things from my perspective, you didn't take the hero path but the villain path then, right? Since you killed that kid and those guards so brutally. That was definitely some villainy."

Lith answered, "According to you, I maybe a villain. But according to myself, I did what I felt was fair. That kid whipped me daily for who knows how long and treated me as a slave. He got what he deserved. As for those guards, they harmed someone who took a beating for me."

"It was my revenge and also to get vengeance for that guy who got beaten up. Do you still think it's being a villain now?"

Lucifer couldn't help but ask again, "you could've simply killed that kid then. Why go all the way to do something so brutal?"

Lith was about to answer because he's a vampire, but refrained from doing so. If he said that, Lucifer might feel something suspicious.

Lith was a reincarnator, he was a human in his past life. But now he was a vampire. Although he thought he had come to terms with his vampire identity, it wasn't until in this dreams did he fully embrace that.

Once Lith accepted that he was a full fledged vampire now, it was only then did he have all his shackles broken, that included his moral ones too.

Although he had everything broken, in his core he still had some humanity and that was what made him vow to always protect and cherish his loved ones.

If he went down the villain path, it meant sacrificing even his loved ones if needed and he wasn't ever going to do it.

But if he went the hero path, if his loved ones did something harmful to everyone else in the world, he would need to still kill them for the greater good.

Lith wasn't going to do it. Thus, anti-hero fit him best and due to his human and vampire nature, he had the emotions of both species at the very extremes.

If he wanted to cherish and love someone, he would do with all his heart and would be even kinder than the kindest angel out there. But if he was going to take revenge, he would be worse than the worst demon out there and no matter how morally wrong it was, he wouldn't let things slide.

The little kid that got so brutally killed was the person ever to come across Lith when he finally had all his shackles broken. Had it not been the case, he may probably had gotten a simple death.

But now that the deed was done, Lith had no full confirmation that he had accepted his vampire self and wasn't restricted anymore by his human moral values.

Although it meant he could do anything morally wrong as a human, it didn't mean he would do everything morally wrong.

For example, r*ping a lady was a serious no go. No matter what, such a situation must always be avoided. 

If a lady has done something bad to Lith, instead of doing that, he could always torture her in the worst possible way and have her crave for her death.

It perfectly with a quote that a wise man once said, 'professionals have standards.' 

Lith had his own code of conduct. He would do things he saw fit and even if someone said it was wrong, as long as Lith found it justifiable and so did his loved ones, things were all good.

Lucifer, looking at Lith not answer and get lost in his own thoughts, put on a thinking expression and thought to herself,

'He sure has the balls to even make the Demon Queen wait to get an answer. Should I show him slightly of what it actually means to be in Lucifer's presence?'

'HmMmMmMmm… but if I do something, he might probably get scared and I won't look like a cool aunt anymore. Cheh, if he wasn't my nephew, I would've really just made him my boytoy and put on a leash on him to control him.'

'Oh well, speaking of leash, it probably wouldn't be bad to dominate him.'

'Okie-dokie. It's decided, I'll dominate him later and have fun, fufufu.'