The Goddess Made A Mistake Again

"Tell me then… why did you leave them to die out there?"

"…"

"…"

"…I …I tried to-"

"Tried to doesn't cut it here. The truth of the matter is, you left them hanging by while you yourself took the safe route." I smile with amusement, "And you have the audacity to call me out." I threw him back as he steadily stopped himself and grabbed on to his throat in pain.

Arthur could still feel the strong grip on his throat as he looked at Henry in anger, "I didn't have a choice! I had others with me who wanted me to leave. I couldn't take the chance to go after them when I-"

"When you had others to think about… is that it?"

"YES I DID! But what I did was far low then what you did. You massacred those people out there… all for what… some credits for the academy!"

"You're joking with me?" I say doubtfully, "You do know that we came out to these stage initially to kill these people, right?"

"Is that your reason to kill them like that?"

"Of course not!"

"Then what is it?"

"I did it for my kingdom!"

"What?" Arthur had a look of incomprehensible state, "For the kingdom, how could the kingdom benefit from thi-"

"Of course the kingdom would benefit." I didn't let down and continued my counterattack, "I didn't kill just my competition, I killed traitors!"

"Traitors?..." Arthur took a moment before he understood where I was going, "They aren't traitors… they didn't have a choice. If they stayed, then they would have died. That maniac made them go with him and turn to his side, you can't possibly make your judgement based on that.

"Hmm… you're probably right with that." I said with a thoughtful look. But then I looked at him straight in the eyes, "Then about us?"

"Hmm?"

"What about all of us here? Didn't we choose to stay?"

"Tha- That's different-"

"How is that any different? Didn't we have the same conditions as well? Weren't we also going to die?"

"B- Bu… the reason why we didn't we were strong… they weren't strong so they had to do-"

"Damn it with your excuses Arthur!" I screamed at him, "Had to this, reason for that, because they couldn't… that's all I'm hearing from you."

"Yes, you are right that we are stronger than them and had better chances of survival."

"So you-"

"But what about them?" I point to the five worthless mobs who were listening to our argument, "They aren't strong… then why did they not choose to go? Why did they survive if they are soo weak as you describe them?"

"I…"

"I…"

"I don't know…" Arthur said. He really didn't know. At first when he started the argument, Arthur thought that he was in the right, that Henry was the one who had done the horrible thing and he should point it in the name of justice.

But as more as he started to hear Henry, his vision wavered and he's thought process only seemed to get weaker as time passed.

From the corner of my face, my smile widened. This was what I had been waiting for. A moment… just one moment to make the honorable Arthur know that he isn't the one that's right.

I know that I shouldn't do something so horrible to someone who I think of as my favorite protagonist… but, I really want to.

In this new reality that I have set my foot in, I want to crush the hopes and dreams of all those that stand in my way… I want to see them beg for mercy as I crush that wicker burning inside them.

Does that make me bad?

If it does, then… I don't mind being the villain once in a while. If I don't live the fun way, I want in this new life then why choose to keep going anyway… how should just give up and let this fantastic chance go to someone who's willing to risk out and fuck all the pussies!

Damn… that felt like a bad analogy.

But I don't care… this is my life, my analogy and all of them are my pussies!

"And to make it more clear for you, you are basing all of your reasoning to us being strong, right?" I said and went closer to him until our faces were only a few inches away from us, "We aren't strong."

"!"

Everybody looked at me in shock, even Arthur.

"We were lucky that's all." I stand straight and ask all of them, "Tell me, what were you guys planning on doing when Cravic had suddenly went to his new crazy transformation huh? Because I didn't have jack shit in me at that moment to come out with a crazy powerful attack that would kill him."

"And I'll be even more straight… If it weren't for me, then none of you would still be standing here."

"!!!"

A shock suddenly went through all of them as they realized that what I said just now was absolutely correct, especially to Arthur. Back when the lava ball was falling down on them, none of them were able to do any damage on it, making their survival rate zero.

It was only through Henry's help that they had escaped from it and were still alive.

"You Bastard!" Xavier barked, "I didn't need your help, I would have survived anyway-"

Wilson stopped Xavier from going towards Henry and said, "Hey! I know that it stings to hear him say that. But we both know that's true, don't deny it."

Xavier looked down at Wilson in anger but all he got in return was a calm face. Seeing him like that, Xavier slowly stopped his rough breathing before flinging aside Wilson, "Fuck off!"

"I know all that, I just didn't think…"

With that the group of us became quiet. The heaviness of my words and their own weakness seemed to make them think about their future.

"Hah!"

Hearing me snicker got all of their attention as Xavier said, "What the hell are you laughing at?"

"If just my words made all of you break down like that, then why did you even participate in the competition to begin with?"

!!!

"But I know you don't want to end it like this."

"If you want to break through such shallow weaknesses of yours," I said while towards a center plane of the place that wasn't completely destroyed yet, "then you just have to do one tiny thing."

"What?" All three of them asked at the same time as my smirk widened.

"You have to defeat the strongest guy."

"Unfortunately for you guys, at the time being that's me."

!!!

They looked shocked at me.

"Did all of you think that the competition is already over? Don't be naïve... there are still more than one of us standing and you heard what that guy said."

"Only one of us can win the competition." Wilson said.

"Only will get the pendant." Xavier's breath tightened.

"Only one would be able to join the Royal Academy." Arthur said, regaining back his strong eyes.

…

"You guys are joking, right?"

Our attention turned to the group of worthless ones as I said, "No… we're serious."

"What! That's stupid… forget about the competition still going on, we don't even know if the teachers who were observing us are still alive."

"Oh! Don't worry about that."

"We're still far from going touching our graves." Two unknown voice said.