"Angry?"
Seeing Shien's extremely displeased expression, Roxie seemed to find it amusing instead and said as much.
"Obviously." Shien still looked unhappy. "It's not like I did it for the credit, but subduing Kilian and wiping out Bedo and the Old Demon Faction were undeniably merits, weren't they? Is this how you treat someone who rendered such service?"
Bedo, Kilian, and the Old Demon Faction were all heavily wanted criminals who had turned the royal capital into a living hell ten years ago. Many nobles of the Kingdom had suffered at their hands and hated them to the bone.
And now?
Shien, the great benefactor who had dealt with the culprits, not only received no reward or gratitude, but was being dragged into this pointless struggle for power and suspicion?
Then those people really deserved to be slaughtered by the Old Demon Faction.
But that was nobility.
As the saying went, every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost. The more widespread a matter became, the more different thoughts and considerations became entangled in it, ultimately producing a result that pleased no one.
As always, reality was often crueler than imagination. Every dispute and clash of interests could not possibly be as neat and orderly as those written in novels, with each side trading blows back and forth. They were full of accidents and uncertainties.
Even the all-powerful Supreme God had the Demon King as a mortal enemy, didn't she?
That proved that even gods could not have everything go their way.
Roxie still tried to comfort him.
"The Kingdom certainly won't mistreat those who have rendered service. Otherwise, no one would be willing to serve it." Roxie smiled. "Don't be too angry. Some people may indeed have ill intentions, but there are also quite a few people