After learning the Dark Breathing Technique and the Black Moon Meditation Art, Agon left alone.
Charlotte watched the solitary Elephant Person's back vanish beyond the horizon. He had offered to give him a ship, but Agon refused. He wanted to reach Cappadocia by his own means.
Charlotte knew many orcs—Frederica, the Leopard Person Domitian, the assassins who wanted to kill him, and the overwhelming orc armies—but he had never met an orc like Agon. He was incomparably brave and kindhearted, feared no battle, and wanted to save his people. Yet those very qualities doomed Elephant Person Agon to profound loneliness.
Charlotte could understand the loneliness of this foremost orc genius, but someone like Domitian probably could not understand it at all.
Perhaps...
Only Septimius, the chief leader of the Orc Assassin Alliance who had proposed the doctrine of the Non-Cannibals, could understand this young Elephant Person.
Golden Goat Herolf watched Agon leave, resentment boiling in his heart. Useless Agon, why didn't you kill Charlotte?
As long as you killed Charlotte, I'd be free from this misery!
Orcs are so useless...
Domitian could not understand the exchange between Charlotte and Agon at all. He increasingly felt that Charlotte was rather strange, always doing inexplicable things, yet the results always exceeded expectations.
Domitian thought to himself, If he could even persuade Agon, perhaps following him would give the orcs a better future.
From his brief conversation with Agon, Charlotte also learned why the Elephant People had brought some orcs to Dubrovnik. The orc camp had completely run out of food, and after an argument, the camp had decided to slaughter a batch of orcs to make dried meat.
Agon was dissatisfied with that decision, but he could not change anything. In anger, he led a group of followers away from the orc