"But I had no choice!"
Joy Boy suppressed the bitterness and confusion in his heart, his voice firm yet helpless.
"I only wanted to overthrow tyranny. Was I wrong?"
"However you look at it, wasn't the outcome good?"
"The common people will never be oppressed again. There will be no slaves. Everyone will be free. Imu, isn't that a good thing?"
Faced with Joy Boy's questions, Imu merely spat out a few words, cold enough to chill him to the bone.
"Not my fucking problem."
Boom!
Those few words shattered everything Joy Boy had clung to in an instant!
"What did you say?"
Imu gave a cold smile. "Commoners have their way of life, and slaves have theirs. What does humanity slaughtering itself have to do with us?"
Joy Boy's pupils abruptly contracted, his face filled with incredulous shock. His entire body froze in place as years of friendship, trust, and mutual understanding crumbled in an instant!
He had never imagined that the common people he had sacrificed everything to protect, the suffering he had risked his life to end, were utterly worthless and irrelevant in his friend's eyes!
Seeing Joy Boy's stunned, vacant expression, Imu's lips curled into an icy sneer.
"Monkey, you're far too naive, far too childish."
"This is simply how the world works."
"The strong devour the weak. Some rule, and others are ruled. It has always been that way."
"Even a thousand years from now, even ten thousand, that order will never change. Nor can it be allowed to."
"The weak suffer, and the strong hold power. Those are humanity's rules."
"To you and me, such trifles as rulers and slaves were never worth mentioning."
"Only the world's order truly matters."
He paused, gazing darkly at the dazed Joy Boy.
"Besides, this was the agreement