"Please wait, Mr. Gym Leader."
Heiduo had barely stepped outside when the elder's voice came from behind him.
He turned around just in time to see the elder being helped to his feet by Auster.
The latter said, "Stay in Meteor Village for a few more days. By all rights, we should properly entertain you and thank you for bringing Higan back to us."
He understood. They wanted to discuss it.
Heiduo's expression did not change. This concerned the fate of an entire clan, so naturally they needed to carefully deliberate together. They could not simply agree on a whim.
He would treat it as a sightseeing trip.
Besides, he was quite interested in Meteor Village.
After leaving the temple gates,
he saw Higan sitting alone in her wheelchair directly ahead.
Heiduo looked around before spotting, farther away, a group of Draconids who were hiding so poorly they might as well not have bothered.
"What? Blocking my way?"
He could not help laughing.
Higan wore a complicated expression and seemed hesitant to speak. Clearly, what Heiduo had said in the temple had already spread.
The things that brat Aster had done in the outside world had thoroughly shattered these people's worldview.
Who told them to see themselves as saviors?
Committing great evil in the name of righteousness was precisely what this amounted to.
"Even though you're the victim, you still have to take responsibility." Heiduo walked over to Higan, patted her shoulder, and said earnestly, "The future of the Draconids will likely depend on you."
It might have been unfair to Higan, but at this stage, aside from Heiduo, perhaps the only person who could help the Draconids was Higan herself—the one who had personally suffered.
If she could not be the first to forgive the Association and Devon Corporation,