Chapter 796

"If you no longer had even this last bit of value, you would have been a corpse long ago. I'm not joking, nor am I trying to scare you. I'm telling you a fact—a pure, unvarnished fact. I have to tell you this fact. It wouldn't do if I didn't tell you; if I didn't, I'd be letting you down, understand? Honestly, I really have let you down. After all, I shouldn't have appeared in the first place, yet here I am. Because I'm in a bad mood. Because I'm in a bad mood, I want to change some things and make myself feel a little better. This will affect you, but it will also help you avert many tragedies that never should have happened. Those old bastards want to turn you into a tragedy they can control. Honestly, this really is a tragedy—a tragedy that has to be mentioned, a tragedy that absolutely must be made clear to you. If I don't explain it, I'm afraid you'll keep misunderstanding."

"I don't really care whether you misunderstand. I simply want to explain things clearly to you. As for whether you misunderstand or not, that isn't important. It's completely unimportant. Honestly, it doesn't matter at all—not one bit. If it mattered even a little, I wouldn't be saying this much to you. Sigh, this really is such a headache. If it weren't such a headache, I wouldn't be saying so much, right? Isn't that so?"

"Back then, I didn't want to be this long-winded either, but there was no way around it. There really was no way around it. There was absolutely no way around it. There really was none."

"But I still had to find a way to solve these problems. If I didn't solve them, I'd have a terrible