There had been something heavy on Harbour's chest for a while. With the defeat of Niang, he thought he would be happy. His family had gotten the vengeance that he had sought.
He was unable to do it through his own hands, but then again, he felt like if he had never met Raze drinking that night in the first place, his vengeance would have never succeeded.
In part, he felt like the word was giving him some type of justice. Yet, the pain was still there, and there was something nagging at him more than it ever did before.
Before approaching Raze, he kept repeating in his head that it was fine. There was no need to know the truth; he had gotten what he wanted from this stranger and had nothing to give him in return… and yet for some reason, the words had left his mouth before he realized it.
"Were you the one that killed my sister?" Harbour asked.
For everyone that was there, the question came out of the blue. Charlotte and Anna knew about where Raze was before, at the academy.
"His sister, who's his sister?" Charlotte couldn't help but whisper.
"According to the information I have, Harbour's sister was Feebie Dines, the leader of the Lethal Bite Clan before all of this started," Anna answered.
Bargo, hearing this, had to think there was a reason Harbour had brought this up; he wouldn't have just brought it up out of the blue.
That's when he himself realized, if this person was the White Dragon that they thought of, shouldn't he have been at the academy? Why was he away, and why was he in this city currently?
"Your sister is Feebie," Raze repeated. "I… was the person that killed your sister, but everything I did was to protect myself."
When hearing the answer, Harbour felt a smile come up on his face.
"No wonder you are so strong; if you were able to best my sister, then of course it's only right that you were the one that defeated Niang as well."
"She was always hot-headed, and I told her it was her worst trait. That was why I always took over matters to do with the city."
"I wonder if the meeting between all of us is just fate, or someone from above pulling all the strings of what we are doing. For some reason… your answer has brought me some peace."
Right after finishing his talk, Harbour went on both of his knees and placed his hands on top of them before bowing his head down.
"You granted my wish when I was at my lowest point. There was only one thing I wanted more than ever, and it felt like an impossible task, but it has been completed because of you."
"Regardless of your reasons for doing so, you have done me a favor. As I said before, you are free to do with me as you wish. My life is in your hands now, because it was a life that I had already given up on."
Harbour raised his head, and then placed it on the ground three times after saying these words.
The scene had reminded Raze a little of Simyon when he had promised loyalty to him as well.
Hearing these words, Ivor and Bargo looked at each other, their eyes slightly wider, and Ivor felt his palms sweating slightly.
While in the cell underground together, the two of them had talked about the situation and meeting with the Alter group.
Bargo had suggested that after their job was done, it was quite possible that Alter would deal with them. They had never seen such things, items, and powers before and never heard of such tales.
If that was the case, then there had to be a reason why, and Bargo had come up with the idea that they must have killed every single person that had known about them.
This was why Ivor was gulping right now.
"We need to decide what to do with these people; they have all witnessed too much," Anna said, looking at the three Pagna warriors.
Bargo didn't even bother thinking about putting up a fight; Raze would be even stronger than when he fought against Niang.
"Honestly, Himmy is meant to be in charge of these things, so I'm not really sure what to do. We could bring them with us back to him… but I can tell you the most likely answer," Charlotte answered.
She was kind-hearted, too kind-hearted, Raze thought. Himmy would suggest for all of them to be dead, and Raze could tell she would rather have them just escape.
"These people, they can be of use to us still," Raze answered. "I think if Alter was to overlook their position and get rid of them, it might cause even bigger problems.
"For one, we have Bargo who is the Vice Head of the Moon Shield Clan, one of the top five clans; having him as an insider can be valuable."
"Then we have Ivor, someone on the ground that can help with particular situations, and lastly…" Raze looked down at Harbour.
"We have Harbour, the person in charge of the city, on the border of two large factions."
Harbour looked up at Raze and wondered what he was trying to suggest.
"My position… I no longer hold it," Harbour said.
"Why? Because the Lethal Bite Clan took that position away from you?" Raze replied. "Don't you realize, that there is no longer any Lethal Bite Clan here.
"And, me as the person who took down the Lethal Bite Clan, is now stating that you will be in charge as the head of this city."
Harbour felt like he no longer had a purpose in his life. With his family taken care of and his revenge complete, there was nothing left for him to do.
He had promised that his life was Raze's, and if this is what he wanted him to do, then so be it.
"If you wish for me to look after this city, in your stead then, I accept!" Harbour exclaimed as he bowed down again to Raze.
"I think that won't be too much of a problem," Anna said as she was overhearing things. "Himmy and Alter should be able to agree to all of this, and besides if there is no one in charge of the city it will become chaos."
"The only person that I'm not too sure about is Ivor."
Ivor was nervously scratching his head. Even he wasn't sure and thought Raze trying to save him was a stretch, but he just kept his mouth shut and was thankful.
"I can help with that," Bargo said. "We can state that the Moon Shield Clan has made it so Harbour is still the head of the city. It looks like I should stay here a while until you get things up and running again."
"Before we make matters official I have one thing to say to you," Raze said as he moved in closer to Bargo. "If a time comes, where something like this occurs, and the Moon Shield Clan might have to go against me… then it would be best you convince them to stay out of it."
Raze was thinking of when he would go against the principal. Part of the barrier were the five clans, with one taken down, if he could get one to no longer support the principal it would make the task a lot easier.
"I will try my best, but I can't promise anything," Bargo answered. "Just like with Harbour, I know you have done a big favor for me today. Who knows what would have happened to my life if it wasn't for you."
"I wish to just rest for the remainder of my time on this planet."
With all decided, the team decided to search the rest of the building to see if there was anything else they could find on the matters involving Niang.
However, all they did find were several burnt documents and ashes. It looked like it had happened a day or two ago as well.
There was no evidence that they could use, and with that, they had returned to Himmy at the Inn, to inform them of everything that had happened.
Charlotte, who passed on the story with Anna adding in details, did omit the type of magic that he had used, and the powerful sword that was obtained as well.
Before coming to meet Himmy, Raze had asked Anna if she would keep quiet about the sword, and her reply was, 'as long as she got what she needed from him.'
They didn't talk about it much before entering and telling the rest to Himmy.
They were sitting at a table, and Himmy was continuously rubbing his forehead.
"I can't believe… that you did all of that. I thought that you might have gone to just deal with one person, but you're saying the whole clan was eliminated." Himmy then started to rub his eyes even more as he started to think about things.
"Do you think… we will be punished by Alter?" Charlotte asked.
"How can they be punished by something if they don't know about it? For now, the world will just know that Harbour had committed vengeance and eliminated his Clan."
"We took advantage of the situation and asked him to join the group, by helping his family rest. I can make something up along those lines, so that should be fine. What I'm worried about is the ripple that this will cause for the Dark Faction."
"What is going to happen now, and how are they going to protect this place?" Himmy asked.
