The two headed snake has more heads?

"The snake… its back!" The solider was panicking and judging from his attitude, this was serious. 

"Oh yeah, I heard that too." And not to mention that was why I was here. 

The geezer looked at me with a lot of emotion, mostly just plain surprise. "You can understand them?" His jaw was literally hanging. 

"Isn't that a bit of an exaggeration? What's so big deal about understanding them?"

"It took me ten years! It took even your grandfather four! And you say, you can understand him fine just from an hour of walking around!" Okay, he was definitely losing his mind. He started to tear his hair. 

"Calm down?" I didn't know what else to say. 

"Boy, why did you come to this place?" the headmaster turned to me, utterly frustrated. 

"To get a core." I didn't have things to hide from this guy. 

"Then let's make a deal. You keep this place a secret and I let you kill the snake to get the core?"

"And if I decline?"