"Zanis, the captain who controls lower-ranking members with Divine Wine." With every word Haimo spoke, Lili's shoulders trembled.
"For a Level 1 Supporter, that really is a despair-inducing number."
"Th-this is all because Lili is useless..."
Lili clenched the corner of the blanket over her legs, afraid to look up at Haimo. "Lili... Lili is just a Supporter with hardly any fighting ability." "Lili is already more than grateful that you all came to her rescue. Once morning comes, Lili will leave.
"She won't cause you any trouble."
The words came readily to Lili, carrying the self-abasement born of years spent pleasing others to survive.
Since her current predicament was a bottomless pit that could never be filled, she had best know her place, pack up, and leave.
"Leave? Go back where?"
Haimo looked at her hedgehog-like defensive posture and asked, "Back to the Soma Familia, which controls you with Divine Wine and treats you like a money tree?" "Or are you planning to keep using that Special Magic of yours to swindle equipment from a few low-level Adventurers and scrape together those ten million Valis?"
Lili jerked her head up, shock flashing through her chestnut eyes. Clearly, she had never expected this god to guess even her usual swindles. "I..." Lili lowered her head and bit her lower lip, finding herself utterly unable to argue. In Orario, with its rigid hierarchy and supremacy of strength, how else could a Pallum Supporter like her survive without such shady methods?
"Don't assume everyone is as despicable as your former teammates." Haimo looked into Lili's eyes.
"My children are kind. They saved you simply because they couldn't stand watching it. They wanted nothing from you."
"But that is only how they feel." Haimo leaned forward slightly, his voice deepening. "I am different