Chapter 272: Answers

[Hidden City]

The next day, Kaido was called in by some of the people that knew him towards a certain place where they will judge on what they will do with him

In truth they just wanted the truth and the answer, thus they'll have to turn in Kaido towards them in restricted shackles binding him

When he was on his way towards to the court, many eyes soon landed on Kaido both from people that knew him and people that didn't

Of course Kaido stayed indifferent cause for him, he knew no one inside this big city inside of a forest

Soon after he arrived at the place and saw both Rebecca and Ingrid by the door

With that Rebecca pushed the door open and let Kaido enter first, for the latter however it didn't matter if he go last or first so without any hesitation he entered right away

But just as he entered Ingrid suddenly asked him which caused even Rebecca to twitch in surprise

"Do you... Do you really not remember us?"

Hearing that Kaido stopped on his tracks before looking back slightly at Ingrid and said

"Not one bit, I don't even know anyone here and yet they seemed to know me... Weird isn't it?" Answered Kaido

After he answered he soon entered the place and was guided by some soldier towards the main room

When he arrived he saw people all facing him from their own sits ranging from people that have interacted with him to the people that he have acquaintaned

With his entry everyone inside the room became silent while Pablo and the others that have truly interacted with him felt complicated to see Kaido on chains walking up to them

As Kaido was at the center attention now both Ingrid and Rebecca returned to their sits and joined the crowd which made the hearing start

The first one to take the lead was non-other than Pablo himself

"Starting the hearing from him, we will now discuss about lifting the restrictions on Kaido-sama at the same time know the reason of him turning his back on us" he said calmly

Naturally the whole room became dead serious as Pablo declared the start of interrogation and allowed different people to question him one at a time

Of course in case of emergency Horus was on a standby on the side as he just observed everything

The first one who asked however was Queen Empress Evelyn

"Tell me Kaido-dono, have you really forgotten us? Cause from the way I knew you, I know that you wouldn't do such things like forget without any specific reasons... Either way I'm stuck whether your faking it or it was real that you forgot us... What do you have to say?"

When she asked that Kaido simply shrugged it off as he talked disrespectfully on the Queen Empress causing her soldiers to be alarmed

"Then that's only make that you really haven't known me better, based on my opinion your words are just heresy, not true at all... Either way I don't care whether you believe me or not" said Kaido

This time Melfina came to the side and asked

"If that so then can you recall me? If I'm correct then I'm one of your closest companion, I have served you well, and fought with you side by side as your shadow, we did a lot together on a are nerve wracking and hard missions that almost cost our life, we've come so far from the bottom... Please tell me you remember that?"

When Kaido heard that he soon turned his chilly gaze towards Melfina and said

"Closest companion? Maybe not, all I can say is your lacking not in loyalty but strength, what I need is strength not blind loyalty that can't even be helpful when fulfilling something that I need... On my opinion I may have left all of you behind because all of you are weak, too weak for your good"

For the first time upon hearing that her loyalty wasn't needed and that she was weak, Melfina somehow got hurt emotionally as she felt crying but held it in

Of course everyone was surprised by that blunt answer which was clear that Kaido was mocking them and their days that they spent

"But without loyalty, you'll get betrayed! You'll die someday cause of this" urged Melfina

But contrary of reaching him, Kaido simply looked irritated causing her to back away as the former said

"Then so be it, if they can kill me of course, I've already died once, why would I be afraid of dying again?"

With that the whole to became chilly

Right after he said that Ingrid came in and pulled his shoulder, when Kaido reacted to it by looking at her, he suddenly received something that was quite unexpected even from the ones that are looking at the sides

With full force Ingrid slapped Kaido on his cheek that resounded so loud which proved how much Ingrid strength unto it

"Don't... Belittle life Kaido! Do you know how worried we were as we go crazy finding you for the past 8 months? We are even willingly eager to go to the depths of hell just to find you, that's loyalty you know... We respected you so much that were willing to do anything to get you back and what?... You'll bathed in hear and belittle your life?"

After that Ingrid grabbed him by the shirt and said

"Think about the people that care for you, longed for you and people who loved you, don't you feel any remorse?"

Hearing that and still feeling his burning cheeks, Kaido simply broke the chains and restrictions using his child of calamity aura thus causing all of the restrictions useless against his strength

With that he grabbed the arm of ingrid and slowly squeezed it, causing every soldier and fighters inside the room to be alerted as they jumped up from their site and touched the holy of their sword

Of course when Kaido applied force unto his grasp, Ingrid on the other hand felt pain as she slowly let go of him, but at the same time cause of the soul binding spell that was casted on both of them Kaido's arm suddenly twitched in pain

Whatever Ingrid felt, Kaido would also feel it, so when Ingrid dies then Kaido dies as well, A kind of hex magic that cursed one's soul

Letting her go he Soo. Turned towards the crowd as he released his tremendous aura on them trying to suppress them through force

Unfortunately Horus also activated his aura causing both aura to clash in the air while the aura coming from Horus protected the other people from Kaido's suppression

Seeing that Kaido smiled in delight and said

"I knew it! You old man is quite an interesting person and yet not quite, but you'll have your chance to reach the peak soon"

Of course Horus simply laughed it off as he urged everyone to continue

This time Reinbach asked

"Kaido-dono! Can you tell us what exactly happened to you in the Demon Continent?"

With that everyone turned their attention towards kaido wanting to know too

With that kind of question Kaido simply said his experience as if it was nothing

"Memories about that part is kinda vague but I can picture them out clearly, all I can say that I was locked up tortured, not fed and and suppressed when some damned vampire locked me up... After that I destroyed everything and killed my way everyone from young to old non were spared until I met some people who became my current companions"

Hearing his last word all of the people that had adventured with him felt something was taken from them

"I was listless when they pulled something out from my body, but nevertheless they helped me, even thought the three of them were eccentric, they are reliable and strong, a people I can depend on, a people whom I can say that am relief to rely my back on... All because they are strong enough that no one dared to belittle them"

Hearing his words everyone then felt as if kaido was purposely praising his new companions only to rub them unto their faces and mocking his past companions and weak and incompetent

"Then i was given strength unimaginable, something that was intoxicating..."

At this mention Horus then realized that he was talking about his black aura that was newly integrated into him

"Even though the process of acquiring it was painful, it was worth it"

This time Lily called it upfront cause of her affinity for light wasn't really calm when faced with Kaido's black aura

Even now she seemed off as her aura was raging from the black aura that Kaido was releasing

"Your black aura!"

"!!!"

"Your aura contradicts my light affinity, an aura with is quite similar to how dark magic image itself, but yours is something beyond that... Beyond that only pure black and destruction lay within it"

Hearing that Kaido then looked at Lily in surprise as he started to laugh

"Hahahahaha! I can't believe I would see a light attributed mage here before me? This place is interesting" he laughed as he approached her causing Luke to stand infront of Lily to protect him

But when he did this Kaido got annoyed by it and said

"Move!"

But Luke didn't listen to him and stood still as he activated his defenses

Seeing his stubbornness even Kaido got pissed as he punched the prouded shield of Luke and sent shockwaves across it causing his shield to break apart and blew him across the room in his crash, walls was destroyed as he loss a lot of blood from the impact alone

When he came into, he suddenly going out that even his armor was cracked just by that one attack

Seeing this everyone was stupefied by such strength that they involuntarily looked back towards kaido with both wary and slight fear

Soon Kaido stood before Lily as he smiled at her

"Oh my! Such a person is a light mage? I'm impressed"

When he said that his aura completely suppressed Lily's light attribute causing her to stiffen up

Then Kaido said

"Didn't you know that light isn't absolute but instead darkness? Before light pitch black darkness was the one who ruled the cosmos, without it light wouldn't have dared to form... But doesn't that mean darkness was superior in anyway?"

Upon hearing that for a slight moment Lily was stunned yet she faltered as she felt suffocated

Soon Kaido withdrew his aura as he gaze at the crowd before arrogantly saying out loud

"I heard that your in a quite a pinch... Why don't I help you in any way, and in return you'll let me do anything after all with all this interesting people here, destroying you would be a pity right?"

After that Kaido looked out the window as he saw the sun setting down for the day as night engulfed the world

Hearing what he said Rebecca then stood on her ground and asked

"What do you mean by that? Are you saying that you'll spare us while at the same time help us?"

For a moment she felt relief as the burden of defending her so called home was transferred to Kaido while at the same time felt bitter by the feeling as if she was being belittled as incompetent

What's more what Kaido said next completely made her look like an incompetent person

"Of course how many of them are there? 1000? 10,000? 100,000? 1,000,000? It doesn't change a fact that they are just ants that had gathered together... With absolute strength, everything is useless"

After that he added more

"Why would I cower by such number of enemy if I'm the one who said that would take on everyone even if the whole world were to go Against me? I'm already an anomaly!!! An incomprehensible being, a person who reached the peak"

With those words everyone felt nostalgic upon hearing that as the old Kaido kept saying those kinds of words with full of arrogance and yet we're reliable in turns of this kind of situation where high morale is needed

With that Kaido declared arrogantly infront of them

"Before the sun rises, as the whole world is engulfed by the darkness of the night, the army stationed outside of the forest will all be destroyed"