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A minute or so more passed as Hanzo collected the heads below him and walked toward Tyr. He stored them in his storage ring.

‘I don’t know what the fuck I’ll do with them…’ He said to himself, slightly puzzled: ‘But… Tyr gave them to me as a sign of his guilt and empathy. I won’t lose them.’

He arrived at where Tyr was. The teen was staring at the ground as tears swam down his face.

Hanzo placed his arm on Tyr’s left shoulder while standing on the right of him.

“Tyr… let’s go.” Hanzo said in a more quiet tone, “Now, you truly understand what type of world we live in. Here, we Hunter’s can not afford to be emotional whilst still in our missions. The time for mourning will come… but it is not now.” From his tone, Hanzo clearly cared for the teen. Yet, he understood the importance of composure.

“If one is not stoic here, they will forever be traumatized.”

Tyr sucked in two lung fulls of breath after hearing this before releasing them. He then wiped his tears, donning a serious face as he turned and walked toward Jonas’ corpse.

“You’re right. Let’s go. I’ll clean up this… you clean up what you have to.” Tyr replied as he left.

Hanzo understood what he meant by this, and immediately began to walk toward Urvil. But before that, he said: “Tyr!”

Tyr turned, a slightly curious look in his eyes.

“Take this. It’s a spare. 20 by 20 feet.” Hanzo threw a ring.

Tyr caught it, ‘A storage ring? 20 by ’20s are expensive.’

“Thanks.” He turned, as did Hanzo.

Tyr made it to where Jonas lay flat on his stomach.

‘You didn’t deserve such a gruesome death.’ Tyr thought to himself as he stood before the man.

‘Time for mourning isn’t now, Jonas. I know you understand.’ He said, absorbing his body into the storage ring.

As he did this, Hanzo made his way right up to Urvil.

He stood before the kneeling girl, who had not stopped crying even until now.

“Out of everyone here…” Urvil suddenly began to speak as she noticed Hanzo’s feet in front of her. “I am the one suffering the most.”

Hanzo paused, “Hardly… Tyr must be suffering far more than you.”

“He stopped crying.”

“He would have cried for ten times longer than you if he wasn’t reminded of reality.”

There was a silence between the two.

“You want to know why right?” Urvil said finally in a low tone. Her voice frail and damaged.

“No. I already know why.” As Hanzo said this, Urvil faced him with confusion in her eyes.

“I had a suspicion your background would lead to this…” Hanzo continued, leaving Urvil filled with questions.

Urvil stayed silent, allowing Hanzo to speak:

“You came from a past of having no parental figure. So, you clutched to various versions of those until arriving at different types of leader figures, such as your siblings. However, after even they abandoned you, you felt a feeling of emptiness. So, despite thinking you came to Drance wanting a better life for yourself, that wasn’t the reason why you entered that city.

Subconsciously, the real reason was because you wanted another person in your life who wouldn’t abandon you. And so… you found Yurin and Cyllia, your closest friends. And now, your fear of abandonment from childhood trauma forced you to not refuse their evil thoughts of betrayal and murder.”

Hanzo’s tone was ice-cold and serious as he said this.

Urvil gasped slightly: “S-so you know all of this… you know what I am going through.”

“Yes, Urvil. You aren’t as horrible as the other two.”

Hearing this, Urvil nearly broke into tears. Finally, someone understood her.

“But…” Hanzo added after a few seconds, “You still had a choice whether you wanted to perform evil or not. More importantly, whether you wanted to go against me and my friends or not.”

“W-what are you saying? I–I had no choice.”

“You had a choice when they first asked you the question. You had a choice when we journeyed through this dungeon. You had a choice when Tyr climbed for hours, blistering and breaking his body to give you an antidote for your life.” Hanzo’s tone became more and more angry as he spoke.

You had a choice for each and every second you took a breath from the moment they proposed the question of betrayal to you, up until the moment you did it. You had infinite choices, Urvil… and you chose the wrong one.”

Hanzo’s tone was completely heartless.

Urvil stammered, her mouth quivering as she didn’t know how to respond.

Hanzo grabbed his sheathed bow, “If only you chose differently, you would have never been abandoned by us.”

Urvil’s eyes widened at that moment as tears naturally poured down her face. Despite everything else Hanzo said, these words hit much harder. They broke any stability that was left in Urvil, causing her to break down into a flurry of tears.

“To think… Tyr nearly killed himself for you.” Hanzo finally said.

As she had the realization of the mistake she made, an arrow went straight through her head–obliterating it in an instant.

Hanzo stood over her with a stoic expression. He turned to look at Tyr who was making his way over right now.

“You killed her huh?” Tyr said, looking at Urvil’s corpse.

“Did you not want me to?”

Tyr paused, “No… I did.” He had a stern look.

“Then there’s nothing more to talk about. Let’s get this dungeon over with.” Hanzo turned, Tyr following behind him.

They both walked over to the Dragonewt egg first.

“Hanzo… what would happen if I were to take this egg?” Tyr questioned as they arrived before the egg.

Hanzo was slightly confused by the question, “What do you mean? You can’t, it’s in the rules of the quest to bring all the treasures. I mean, it’s not like I cared about breaking the rules of quests, I would break all the rules if they didn’t have blockages put in place.”

“Blockages? Like what?”

“Well… I’m sure those pompous bastards already knew there was a Drake inside of this dungeon. If you were to take the egg, they would test to see if you were telling the truth about whether you took it or not. Of course, it’s impossible to beat the truth.”

Tyr thought about it for a moment, “Hmm… you say they already knew a Drake was in here? Are you sure? I thought no one knew…”

“Of course, they are lying. Since that prince bought the rights to this dungeon, he would naturally scan it for every treasure he could find without having to kill anything. He did this using Aura technology. Or else, people would never buy the rights to dungeons. This boss room is the last room that you can enter without having to kill a single thing.

The final treasure room, however, is the only room that requires the slaying of a beast. That being the boss Drake in this dungeon.”

“If that’s the case, I can take the egg.” Tyr smiled, grabbing the egg.

“What?” Hanzo was confused.

Tyr stared right into his eyes and said: “The question will be if I took the Drake egg or not.”

“Yeah…”

“And the truth will be… no.”

“Huh?”

“I took the Dragonewt egg, not the Drake egg.”

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