Ma Lou beat his chest and stamped his feet, tearfully denouncing his "former self":
"We all talked behind your backs, saying you were cold-blooded! Saying you were arrogant!"
"We said that even if every little village and town in the wilderness died out, you wouldn't spare us so much as a single tear!"
"We thought important people like you wouldn't care whether ordinary people like us lived or died..."
"But... but..."
At this point, Ma Lou brought out his tried-and-true acting trump card again!
He stopped halfway through a sentence, right at the crucial moment, then buried his face and sobbed!
At a time like this, mindful of his standing in the Righteous Gods Faction, the other party had no choice.
He could only let Ma Lou finish crying before continuing.
And while waiting for Ma Lou to finish, he would inevitably start filling in what Ma Lou was about to say.
Smart people were the best at filling in the blanks. Give them enough emotion, and they would patch every hole in the logic themselves!
At that moment, Ma Lou covered his face, as though he was so grief-stricken he could barely breathe.
He left a full four or five seconds of absolute silence.
In those few seconds, not only did Kairils's gaze change, but even the chests of the second-tier guards at the door, who had been sneering earlier, rose and fell almost imperceptibly.
Ma Lou took a deep breath and finally raised his face, streaked with tears and snot. His voice brimmed with undisguised fervor and gratitude:
"But... I never, ever imagined!!"
"The knights who sacrificed their lives in Fog Town shattered my prejudice by standing between us and the Cultists' blades with their own flesh and blood!"
"And you... Lord Kairils! A distinguished Genius Knight like