It was a bit ironic that by eating the bodies of two of the most depraved souls from the two races that could symbolize soul and body, Burn could fix his broken soul.

  It just came full circle.

  “Merfolks were born in the deepest abyss of the o. It could also be seen as the womb of a mother, creating the body. While unis were born amongst the clouds and the light from the sky, like the soul, and the seed from a father,” Man muttered, as Aidyl hummed in uanding.

  “Yes, also, merfolks usually lure men, while unis only touch virgin women…” Burn shrugged, and Eos snorted.

  “Kalnk actually forced our daughters to lure more sailors uer and steal their treasures. He used threats to make humans and other creatures pay hefty sums to cross the o; he's worse than pirates,” Aidyl said.

  The Merfolk sighed a bubble, “Those I mentioned were just the tip of the iceberg.”

  "And Mosst, because we unis only touch virgin women, decided to bee a serial rapist targeting only virgins. If you didn’t kill him, he might bee a bi and lose all his reasons, being a plete monster,” Eos said.

  “The only reason he still maintain his uni form was that he still gave these virgin victims some measly magic like long-sting youth or love potion ingredients.”

  Burn's grin widened. "Certainly, the effey recovery could still be achieved by ing the two of you, creatures free of sins uhose two. However, seleg them is undeniably more efficacious. They are easier to trad target, given their multitude of existing enemies."

  "Or perhaps you're just..." Man sighed, "trying to maintain order, as you said."

  Burher denied nor firmed it.

  Eos muttered, "But abandoning one's humanity to survive..."

  "Or just to maintain order is..." Aidyl frowned.

  "I agree," Burn nodded. "Some people might rather just die. But I am someone who'd rather eat two se creatures than die full of spite."

  Man immediately yelled as she tried to taiears, "You were ten years old, Caliburn! You were a child!"

  "My dear Madam..." Burn embraced her head as he stood beside her seat. "It doesn't matter whether I was a child or not; I still killed and ed two se creatures."

  The feeling of detat he had experienced since birth might have been the reason he was able to do something so depraved.

  Burn smiled as he looked down at her. "You did say you'd cry a lot again, but I didn't think you'd cry this much."

  "I'm sorry, Caliburn..." Man whispered.

  "No," he sighed. "I'm sorry, and thank you."

  Tension hung heavy in the air, as the weight of the full truth settled upon them like a heavy shroud of guilt.

  ing other se beings, evehose beings were criminals themselves, felt ily wrong and irredeemable. The moral drum of survival g with the horrors of his as g their sces.

  While they could all find on ground in ning the act, the circumstahat had led to such extreme measures added yers of plexity to their judgment.

  The victims had also been criminals, a detail that blurred the liween justid barbarity. How could they recile the y of survival with the deeply disturbing nature of his choices?

  And as a child at that.

  The realization that they now bore the burden of this dark knowledge like a stain on their souls weighed heavily upon them.

  It wasn't just a matter of physical sustenanymore; it was a question of his very humanity. How could he ever look at himself in the same light after crossing such a moral boundary, even in the name of survival?

  “Art thou…not of human kind?”

  Isaiah asked suddenly.

  Burn turo the long bck-haired dragon.

  "I am a human," Burn replied.

  Isaiah shrugged. “If thou wert born a dragon, thou mightest need not ponder such a drum. In sooth, iain circumstances, none would question it at all.”

  Onulph straightened up. "Yes. If you were born a ly, you might never o think like this either. Our culture sometimes be questioo humans, too."

  "And just like vampires, where we must kill other creatures to survive, se or not," Vd added.

  Tashr sighed. "Actually, a elves, humans and dwarves also ed parts of their deceased retives to mourn and pay respect. Of course, such a tradition was born out of ignorand fusion, but that era did exist."

  Wekkoun nodded. "I'm sure all of us, or at least our aors, have a history of ing food that could talk at some point in our pasts."

  “Don’t o ask me,” Selen, the female weretiger, snorted.

  “Okay, sorry, we’re half vegetarian. I mean, half herbivore,” Adroros poi his horse body. “We rarely eat meat too, but I uand. I... we... we eat horses sometimes.”

  “You eat horses?!” Eos neighed in shock.

  “A fishes too…” Aidyl closed his eyes tightly, trying to clear his mind of the existential crisis. “...fuck… this is such a pandora box…”

  Man ughed and cried, wipiears. “We should stop…”

  Burn didn’t know how they had reached this point, but the boween different races and species felt uedly wholesome and warm. Being in this moment, the raw truth unfolded with ease, revealing itself in the ge manner.

  The thing was, this wasn't the only terrible sin he had itted in the past, nor would it be the st. Despite the f e he felt now, he khat walking this path required him to possibly abandon his humanity once more. Again, and again.

  CLICK—SLAM!

  The grand double doors to the assembly hall swung open. The entrance of the sed Elf Princess Nahwu pierced the f ambiance like a drawn sword, her presenanding attention and disrupting the peace that had settled in the room.

  “Mother, don’t be tricked! This man

  —! This tyrant, he killed his father to seize the throne and also killed his rebelling brother!”

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  you imagiaurs eating horses? :'''v I mean, they also have human stomach, right? On the human part? And humans eat horses! :''''DDDD waist down and it's horse's body, so they gotta eat grass too. Wait, someone expiaur's anatomy to me?!

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