Tusi Manor, Not Senior Brother

I did not make a decision right away. Instead, I returned to the little temple's dungeon and released those people.

They spoke words of gratitude, but I knew that when they returned home, they would probably find that all their relatives had vanished. I had no idea how they would react then.

The old man had been following me the whole time. Right, I remembered that he had introduced himself before. His name was Kang Zong.

We led the rescued villagers out of the little temple, and they immediately jogged back to their homes.

Sure enough, someone soon came running back to us. He said his family was missing and hoped that Kang Zong and I could help find them.

Where were we supposed to look?

We did not even know where their relatives had been taken.

Neither living nor dead could they be found.

No, we had seen bodies, except those bodies had inexplicably vanished again.

Kang Zong comforted the villagers who had come to complain, telling them that we would think of something. But the village had already been like this when we arrived, so they should not place too much hope in us. Being able to rescue them was already an immense stroke of fortune.

Most of the villagers were reasonable enough, but one middle-aged man started making a scene. He said we ought to help them find their relatives first, even implying that we were the ones who had captured their families.

He did not mention a single word about how we had just rescued him from that dungeon.

It was as though saving him had been our obligation, and since we had rescued him, we were responsible for rescuing his family too.

He was so outrageous that I almost laughed in anger. It was not