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The room was once more divided with that statement between those who were aware and those who weren’t, with the majority who seemed to know coming from the aquatic side since that was where the murders took place.

Of the terrestrial, it seemed there was a lot more shock. Falk at the very least had been unaware as to the reason for the delay and Ben was getting the impression that it was news to most others around him too, many looking surprised with only one among them coming across as excited more than anything.

Yeah, I’m understanding more and more why nobody wants to look at the spooky girl when she’s going to have a reaction like that. More importantly, murder huh?

It immediately made him want to know more, both about the circumstances and the details of it. The why was a big one and he had to hold himself back from doing anything given that he’d somehow already gotten far more eyes on him than he’d planned on when all of that started, doing his best to wait for anyone else to speak up before he resorted to plundering the murderer’s memories to sate his curiosity, with his patience soon being rewarded.

“What? What did you do?” Yuzu asked as she rose from her seat, looking like she already had some idea, with Regnal seeming entirely indifferent to the matter.

“I did exactly what I wanted, should that really be so shocking? And whatever power they held is meaningless when I’m easily worth a hundred of them.”

“We don’t count lives so easily,” Killi told him. “You don’t get to decide who lives and dies because of some personal grudge.”

“Why not, your gods do and I’m supposedly going to be one eventually,” He shot back. “And for that matter, how dare any of you natives judge me, you have no right. Bringing me to this world to fight your enemies and expecting me to forgive mine at the same time, I’d rather this entire world be destroyed than accept those animals.”

The table didn’t take such a statement quietly, opinions were immediately being shouted back and forth in a scene that reminded him of a miniature version of what he saw from the actual gods of the world while Ben began putting together what he was hearing through context, with it looking like all of this stemmed from something Verbum had told him about in the past, a mistake that was objectively on the gods who had brought them to that world.

Among the summoned groups, there was one that was brought who had been equally split between two races in what sounded like some sort of interstellar war, with one being invaded by the other in a scene that didn’t sound entirely different from what their world was currently going through.

He was sure the thought process behind the act was to get a bit more variety with the groups they took but it was obviously a bad choice from the get-go, destined to end in the current situation the moment it was discovered that one on the defending side had come with a skill at the third tier.

Really, if anything it was just lucky that it had taken so long to happen at all, though it didn’t seem like it was going to resolve itself any time soon and made it clear why the meeting was expected to stretch on for a few days. Everyone had opinions and these were the sorts of people that couldn’t be beholden to any governing body. How was any mortal meant to rule over someone who was destined for godhood? The most they could do was toss it to their equals and hope they’d somehow sort it out amongst themselves.

“While we live on the world we are tied to its laws,” The divine chef sighed, wanting things to end even a few moments sooner to get back to her work. “It doesn’t matter what anyone else says. It’s not acceptable now and it won’t be acceptable when you ascend.”

“That’s easy to say I’m sure,” Regnal sneered. “And I’m sure you’d be all so much better in my position, wouldn’t you? If you were ripped from the world after seeing those you love killed by demons, only to be told to fight obediently by their sides, you’d all do it without a word and just make peace.”

“I would choose peace in a heartbeat if I could.”

“How noble.”

The tone was mocking and it seemed things would never end with the conversation running in circles from there. He couldn’t be allowed to take his revenge while ignoring the law and it was unfair for anyone on that world to judge him when he’d been brought specifically to fight in a whole new war while being told to forget about the one that killed him. It seemed like things would only keep going nowhere too so since he’d already been dragged into things more than he’d hoped, Ben decided to add a different fuel to the fire.

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“Hey Killi, sorry to speak up like this but am I right to say all of this boils down to whether or not a third tier can get away with murder?”

“A simplification but yes.”

“Okay, cool,” He nodded before pointing at Rook. “When I arrived here yesterday, Rook attempted to murder me by teleporting me way up into the sky and leaving me to fall.”