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Chapter 389. Creating a Diversion

"If I may ask, are you considered avenged now?"

Char asked after a long time.

"Of course. When I was young, my father told me a story..."

"A story?"

"It's a story about revenge. The protagonist was a hateful man. He prayed to God and was willing to use everything he had in exchange for the death of his enemy. After God heard the prayer, he gave him a heavy and wide rusty sword, saying that it was the sharpest weapon in the world. He asked him to go to the river to Polish it every day, and when the blade was sharpened, his enemy would die."

Oh, I've heard that story before," Char said doubtfully, "Then he ground the sword smaller and smaller, from a sword to a dagger, and finally to a needle, just like the hatred in his heart that was getting smaller and smaller, was finally put down gently. Is that right? But this and your actions..."