"No! No! No! No!..." Napez laughed and waved his hand. "My lord, to commoners like us, your ambitions are already grand enough. They're ideals we commoners could never hope to reach!"
To be honest, Napez admitted to himself that if the City Lord had not personally revealed his "great" ambition, he would never have believed, even under pain of death, that the man's "great" ambition was such a "great ideal."
A "grand" ambition! Yes! It certainly was "grand"! Napez rocked back and forth with laughter.
"That's what I thought..." Yu Lin Bloodhawk nodded as though it were only natural. "Who wouldn't want to lord it over everyone, take bribes and abuse their power, and harass respectable women without a care for the law?..." he muttered under his breath.
As soon as Yu Lin Bloodhawk finished speaking, Napez laughed even harder.
"My lord... I meant... commoners like us. That... doesn't include you..." Napez said between breathless bursts of laughter.
"Why wouldn't it include me?" Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked.
At the same time, he thought, Who wouldn't want a wonderful life like that? Do you really think I'm crazy? Is living on edge every day, working myself to exhaustion, worrying about one thing and then fretting over another, somehow better than that? There's nothing wrong with me. How could I not know which to choose?
"My lord, what about your title?" Napez suddenly asked.
"The king stripped me of it! I'm a commoner now, just like you!" Bringing up the matter put Yu Lin Bloodhawk in a sour mood.
Honestly, all I got when I came here was a measly baron's title. I barely had a few days to enjoy being part of the corrupt ruling class before the king stripped it away. How could Yu Lin Bloodhawk be happy about that?