"Betrayal? When have I ever betrayed my oath? A guild officer is a free knight who protects civilians! I have always stood with the people!"
"Stop patting yourself on the back! Say that again while looking at the emblem on your gauntlet! Are you really standing with the people, or are you being used?"
"Can you even tell the difference? You're a dragonkin! What are you loyal to, anyway?"
"My loyalty is to this system. It's not the best system, but it's not the least bad system either. It's simply the system we have now."
"Who understands all that stuff you're saying? You can't even fool your own heart!"
The two bigwigs from the Adventurers' Guild and the Administration were locked in combat. Their earth-shaking auras made it seem impossible for anyone to casually interfere. Even so, that didn't stop them from turning their words into blades and slashing at each other.
Still, the two of them seemed to be in high spirits. They probably wouldn't reach a conclusion anytime soon.
At any rate, judging from their spirited conversation, everyone could at least tell who the villain was. Probably...
Of course, at that moment, they were both focused on each other. They didn't even have time to notice the damage the raindrops, flung away by their psychic vortices, were causing to the flowers and grass around them.
Around them, the factory ruins the Adventurers' Guild used as a training ground trembled and swayed like a rickety building caught in a gale. Farther back,
Farther away, "Lawbreaker" had four lightsabers still sticking out of his body, yet he had no choice but to raise a force-field shield and deflect the raindrops. It was as if he were opening a huge umbrella to shield the two ladies from the rain.
Then the