Half the month of Death and Destruction had already passed.
After returning to Knoroya and spending the past few days here, Lu Cang had begun to feel much safer.
It seemed that staying somewhere long enough really did make you grow unconsciously attached to it.
Of course, it was probably also because he'd cleaned out Ruijia's Treasury.
It wasn't as if he could stay out in the wilderness, surrounded by strangers.
Come to think of it, Knoroya was currently the safest place in the world for him.
"Iz."
Lu Cang went to Iz's office.
"You're here."
Iz saw Lu Cang and smiled.
"Kumiloni's been avoiding us a little these past few days."
"Mm... That's understandable."
Kumiloni had higher moral standards than the rest of them.
Iz could be considered neutral good. She didn't kill indiscriminately and followed the law most of the time, but when something truly interested her, she often didn't care much about the law.
And if no one was paying attention, Iz cared even less about things like laws.
As Iz put it: "Rules are made by people. The rules people make aren't the ultimate truth of the world. Whether to follow them comes down to the person, after all. Laws and regulations bind citizens. I'm not a citizen of their country, so I have no obligation to follow them."
"If I thought the rules they made were the ultimate truth of the Source, I might consider following them a little."
As expected of Izpalut.
She broke the law without the slightest shame.
Lu Cang's thinking was simple, too. He knew he was stealing and robbing.
But after debating it with himself and reaching a justification, he went ahead and did it.
Once he'd done something, he didn't regret it—not even if it was wrong.
Besides, there