"After my mother died, my father married a bitch called Salesi. Together they had Xanali, the red-haired bitch "

"Xanali huh" he noted her name and continued his walk while Gaya narrated the short version of her flashback.

"Since the moment she was born, she got everything I didn't, my father's attention, mother's love, and everything I longed for" her voice slightly broke and revealed the sadness in her heart.

"A few years ago, I asked one of my minions to collect information the Naga land's population and food consumption level"

"Why?"The original appearance of this chapter can be found at Ñøv€lß1n.

"Because I saw my father asking for a loan from nearby human kings, he wouldn't have done that if he had any other choices"

"You thought it has something to do with the population and food consumption of your people?"

"Yes, and I was right. According to my minions and spies, my father is liquidating the assets and taking loans from the nobles to run the kingdom. That bastard was driving my mother's kingdom to the ground and I wanted to fix the situation before he could sell the kingdom piece by piece with that Salesi bitch" It was obvious to Michael that Gaya didn't love her father very much by her tone and expression.

"What did your minion find out?"

"That was the weird thing, from the information I gathered, I realized that most of the wealth in the treasury was going to sustain the demand for food. And what made me loathe that bastard of a king was, most of the food we bought went to the prisons, to feed the prisoners"

"Huh?"

"Shocking right? I know. My mother died when I was six months old but I learned that when she was ruling, Nagaland was prosperous and a powerful Kingdom. One of the reasons for my mother's success was her rules, my mother made sure that rapists, murderers who killed innocent Nagas, and all other kinds of evil bastards die painfully. Because of that everyone feared committing a crime which kept the prisons from overflowing with Nagas"

"What changed?" Michael asked as her face twitched in anger

"Salesi and Xanali, they canceled many of my mother's rules saying that it was too cruel. My spineless father went along with them"

"He wanted to kneel down and ask for forgiveness from the kin of the evil bastards I burned down. I'd rather die than kneel down and beg for forgiveness. And human..." she paused for a moment and when Michael looked at her face, he saw her eyes welling up.

"You were wrong human, Xanali didn't break my meridians, my...father...did...my own father" she then stopped walking and dropped to the ground in sorrow. Her father's betrayal and actions saddened her more than they angered her.

"I may have a father, half-sister, and half mother, human but I'm no different than you, an orphan. I was, am, and always will be" this was the first time he saw Gaya crying and honestly, it startled him to see her like this. However, he hatched a quick plan to exploit this situation in his favor.

" for what it's worth, I think of you as my family, Gaya" he wiped the tears off from her face and wrapped his hand around her shoulder to console her.

Just like he planned, her loyalty towards him jumped from 30% to 42%.

She was far from being his family but a simple lie made Gaya's loyalty towards him increase by 12% in one go. He would only consider her as his friend when she reaches at least 70% loyalty and until then, he decided to lie to her more often to increase her loyalty.

"Now take this pill, you'll feel better. Besides, you look horrible when you cry, hehehe" He chuckled as Gaya quickly pushed his hand around and punched him in the shoulder

"You bastard! Give me that" he honestly preferred this version of Gaya to the silent sulking Gaya. And by giving the fake pill, he managed to soothe her sadness and anger.

"So are you going to join the Guardians?" after swallowing the pill and wiping away her tears, she asked.

"About that, what is this Guardian Guild?" Surprisingly, Gaya didn't seem shocked but let out a stifled laugh"

"What would you do without me? Guardian Guild is like the Adventurer's guild but more powerful and influential. They are the law enforcers of the Elon Continent, in other words, if you want to rule this kingdom, they will stop you unless you join them and abide by their laws"

"Law enforcers" he was allergic to that word. Back on earth, the law and the law enforcers were his biggest enemies. However, on earth, he had no power to fight the law units head-on but in this world, he had all the means to destroy them if they stood in his way. He dreamt to control and rule this world from the shadows and he wouldn't let anyone stop him from turning that dream into reality.

"Where were they when Ralphy burned down an innocent village?"

"They may have done something if anyone survived the massacre and complained to the Guardian Guild. Even then, it was highly unlikely because the Guardian Guild would send someone to investigate and they will take their sweet time. When they finish investigating, either Ralphy would have killed the witness or he would have bribed someone in the Guild to make his case disappear. You have to be rich and powerful to get justice from the Guardian Guild, human. The Guardian Guild may have served everyone when it was found but now, it's all politics. And that's why no matter how great you are, you can't become a high Guardian, at best, you can become a bronze tier Guardian"

"Typical" It was not a big surprise to him to hear about the Guardian Guild because it was like every law enforcement unit on earth, slow, inefficient, and plagued by politics. Of course, they kept everyone in order on earth and all hell would break if there wasn't a law unit like police in a country. Considering Michael was a criminal, he never liked the law enforcers and never would.