"Theresa is not a sacrifice."
Xu Yanwu glanced at Theresa behind him, then said to the girl before him, "She is my superior now... Forget it, you wouldn't understand that. She is my companion. You should be able to understand that, right?"
"A companion? Ha..."
The girl laughed mockingly. "A Divine Lord like you actually has companions?"
"Aren't you supposed to be a lofty god, standing alone above all others? How could you possibly have something like companions? At least come up with an excuse before making a joke!"
Xu Yanwu looked at the girl. "You may have a deep misunderstanding of me. I have never considered myself some lofty god... I have feelings and desires... Even if I possess unusual abilities, I am still just a person, not all that different from anyone else."
"Those years in Yae Village... Are you denying everything that happened?" the girl demanded of Xu Yanwu.
"If I truly denied what happened in those years, I would not have come here."
Xu Yanwu stared into the girl's eyes and said, "And... let me ask you this. After all these years here, have you truly not figured it out?"
"The one who caused your deaths..."
"Was it really me, the so-called god of Yae Village?"
Xu Yanwu's question caused the girl's movements to freeze.
Faced with Xu Yanwu's words, the girl hesitated.
Xu Yanwu continued, "I never once indicated that I needed sacrifices... especially not sacrifices made from the lives of girls."
"But the gods' wrath..." The girl still tried to argue.
"Wrath? Why would I bring wrath down upon ordinary villagers... just to demand so-called sacrifices?"
Xu Yanwu said, "The people I cherished eventually became sacrifices too... children I had watched grow up!"
"You should know very well what my wrath truly is!"
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