To Pledge Allegiance...

Raith was shocked, he had not been in this situation before, if his opponent was crying because he didn't want to be killed— that was how Raith was viewing it. Then should he still go ahead and kill him, even if his opponent was a notorious demon king?

Raith knew very much that he needed to slice Balam's head off, as his strike closed in, but something in him felt very uncomfortable with it. Balam right now just dropped his guard, he surrendered, how could he bring himself to kill a man who was crying–

Wham!!

Raith deliberately missed Balam's neck, tearing the ground behind Balam into two, such that the ground outside the domain was also torn.

Balam's eyes were closed, he thought he had met death. Raith staggered tiredly and stood uprightly.

"Open your goddamn fucking eyes." He said.

Balam's eyes slowly came open, he opened one first and then the other, shocked that he was still alive.

"You didn't kill me?"