All I'm saying is, Son of Thunder, even if I didn't come here, someone else would have. If it had been someone else, you could figure out what sort of calamity would have followed without even using your toes. To prevent that calamity, I still want to stand guard here. If anyone comes to invade your territory, I and my comrades will fight to the bitter end and protect the lives of the great Thunder Cat Bear clan..."
"You want my clan's demon cores!"
Xu Yi was just about to wax poetic about his noble intentions when the Thunder Cat Bear cut him off with a single sentence.
It wasn't that the Thunder Cat Bear was exceptionally clever. He was simply on guard at all times, never letting it drop. Even if he thought about it with his toes, this human who didn't particularly annoy him had been rambling for so long that he must have had an ulterior motive. And there was only one possible motive: the demon cores.
What a Xu Yi. Even after his disguise was torn away right to his face, he remained unfazed. "Brother Lei, there's no point putting it that way. We agreed this was a trade. How can you say I'm taking them? To be frank, I heard clearly what you and the other two Brother Leis said in the demon cave just now. I have no intention of taking lives, nor do I intend to plunder the great Thunder Cat Bear clan's treasures accumulated over generations. I only want to take a little. Is that really too much to ask?"
"If I truly meant to seize them, could you really hold out against all my comrades? Even if you wanted to fight to the death, in the end you'd only be endangering