The person Goki respected most in his life was someone like Kaltsit, who carried the world in her heart.
Her actions were utterly pragmatic, with countless considerations of benefit behind every move, yet her ideals were pure and noble—to make everyone in the world live a better life.
Amidst the shadows of war, the incursions of the Great Ones, and the ravages of oripathy, she traversed the world, striving with her meager strength to avert one disaster after another, never once thinking of herself.
Although her words were sharp and sarcastic, she loved speaking in riddles every day, and she was quite old, it didn't stop Goki from considering her his eternal wife.
Suzuran? Who is that? Who knows a child under 14! Kaltsit is the only light of Rhodes Island!
And the person Goki detested most was simpler and purer.
He hated those who were 'above others'.
Anyone who used their power and violence to oppress and sacrifice innocents deserved to be eliminated.
Of course, first and foremost were those damned Great Ones, those gods who only saw Mortals as kindling and tools; it would be best if not a single one of them survived.
If they wanted to live, they either had to step down from their altars, abandon their divinity, and relinquish their Divine Power, or they had to honestly become good gods who occasionally answered a child's birthday wishes—of course, becoming a Nona would be even better.
At sunrise in Yharnam, Goki chose to do just that, letting his endless Divine Power become the fuel for his departure from the world.
If it weren't for the fact that Terra still had gods, and that his scattered Divine Power gave these bastards the capital to threaten the world, plus to avoid having his pelvis crushed by Skadi, Goki actually wasn't very keen on regaining his strength—without blood echoes, he was still an excellent hunter, just unable to clash head-on with these superhumans.
But since it was trouble he had caused, Goki had to take full responsibility.
Secondly, there were those who believed their interests and objectives absolutely superseded those of others—Laurence, Micolash, even Great Master Willem, and also Bishop Quintus of Salt Wind.
However, compared to these people who directly conducted human experiments, some were more adept at exploiting people to the bone, yet their existence was more clandestine and largely completely legal.
They had many names: compradores, slave owners, great landlords, capitalists, corrupt officials, but their greedy nature was consistent.
No matter how malicious the perpetrators of human experiments, they only killed one human at a time; no matter how great the harm caused by the Great Ones of Yharnam, it only affected one town.
But these people... they were allowing the people of an entire city, or even a country, to be constantly exploited under harsh rule, with generations falling into a slow death.
And even more detestable than such people were those who, despite suffering oppression, merely because they were a little luckier than others and picked up some scraps left by their masters, were gratefully cheering for them, fawning upwards, yet looking down on others with disdain—the spiritual 'people above people'.
Having traversed a good portion of Terra, Goki had seen many such people—the man before him was one of them.
"Mr. Chiarne, relying on an adult's petty tricks, using nine truths and one lie to deceive a young person who has just entered society, isn't that a bit too much bullying?"
With a smile as false as Chiarne's, Goki patted Margaret's shoulder, stood in front of the Young Knight, and looked at the Kuranta employee before him.
If it were Margaret six years later, facing such a person, she probably wouldn't even bother to argue.
But obviously, for the still young Margaret to Face this guy, at least in terms of verbal sparring, she couldn't out-talk this old fox.
"Ah, sir, I am currently speaking with Nona Margaret; I hope you won't interrupt us—that would be impolite."
Seeing the tall man, whom he had assumed was the Nearl Family's gardener arranged for Margaret and who had been quietly playing on his phone, step forward, Chiarne raised an eyebrow, but remained calm, maintaining business etiquette, and nodded at Goki.
"Moreover, look at what you're saying, Allens Choice has always prioritized employee welfare, and employee satisfaction ranks among the top companies in the Commercial Federation. If you're interested, you're welcome to apply to our company—"
But what he didn't expect was that the moment Goki opened his mouth, he uttered a national curse in Kazimierzian.
"Stop bullshitting. Margaret not pursuing your unauthorized investigation of her address is already giving you a lot of Face—May I request authorization from you to become your spokesperson, Nona Margaret?"
Directly giving Chiarne the internationally friendly gesture universally understood on Terra—the middle finger—Goki turned to look at Margaret.
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