"You have one day to think it over. Hand over your authority within one day, and I'll give you a hundred years of life. That's me showing mercy. After one day, you'll see my slightly less polite side. Of course, you usually call that brutality. Oh, right—if you keep pretending to sleep and hasten the hands of my impatience clock, I won't mind stuffing your warhammer into your navel and squeezing out your sour stomach and stinking intestines."
Suye wore a smile from beginning to end.
"Do young demons these days not let us old fellows sleep a little longer?" Infernal Fire Furnace slowly opened his eyes. His pitch-black pupils turned gently within his blood-red eyes, flashing with an eerie light.
"Your intestines haven't spilled out through your navel yet. That's enough to prove how deeply I respect the elderly." Suye continued to smile.
"I don't know you." Infernal Fire Furnace's voice was muffled and mumbled, as if he had half a pig stuffed in his mouth.
"The New Era is already waving at us, while the old fellows keep their eyes closed. Naturally, no one knows anyone."
Infernal Fire Furnace's massive body swayed slightly. He narrowed his eyes and stared at Suye.
"We old fellows are rather conservative."
"The older fellows who fell beneath your feet back then were also conservative compared to you." Suye met Infernal Fire Furnace's gaze.
"You don't have much patience," Infernal Fire Furnace said.
"In some respects, you're right. I absolutely don't have the patience to spend my whole life guarding this shabby cave." Suye spoke.
"Demons who said things like that usually died young."
"The demons standing above the clouds all said things like that."
Infernal Fire Furnace drooped his head. His layers of chins resembled a giant lump of dough as he