Beat It Out of You, You Little Bastard

He was utterly furious!

Ye Tai shouted at the two figures in the distance, "You filthy monkey! You brute! Are you two seriously not done with me? Beating me up together wasn't enough? If you don't leave now, I'll beat your teeth all over the ground and see who still dares act arrogant!"

Opposite him stood two deities.

The one Ye Tai called a filthy monkey was the God of Depravity!

The one he called a brute was the God of Courage!

After all, having come from a parallel Earth much like Azure Star, no one understood better than orthodox Earthlings how to give people nicknames with a touch of discrimination mixed in.

The descriptions were remarkably fitting.

Courage? Wasn't that just being a brute? When it was time to run, he should run, yet he kept fighting to the death even when he could not win. If that was not brutishness, what was?

As for depravity, his human form always resembled a scrawny drug addict of a monkey, living off the desires of others with that utterly shameless air about him. What else could he be but a filthy monkey?

The God of Depravity spoke. "Our karma has not yet been completely erased. There must be an accounting for what was done in the past. We were all once within the scheme. If we do not resolve it, even greater evil consequences may arise."

Ye Tai cursed, "I already severed that hand and stepped outside the scheme. Time will erase that tiny remnant of karma. When will this cycle of vengeance ever end? Was beating me up not enough? You insist on coming after my divine spark and my love?"

The God of Courage, whom he had called a brute, spoke as well. "It seems the God of Time