Chapter 3381
“My disowned brother did it by himself and almost killed me as well. I saved you not to punish you, but because even in my madness I recognized your pain.”

“Pain?” Osyan scoffed in between gasps. “What can someone like you know about pain? You, with all your money and your happy family.”

“More than you think.” Lith’s voice was cold but not cruel. “I earned my money and the happiness you see me enjoying today is something I built. No one gave me anything” “That’s not true. Fate gave you good parents. The boy wanted to retort, but he bit his lips because saying those words out loud would hurt him more than it would hurt Verhen. “Osyan, I didn’t want to do this. It’s too soon, but someone has to.” Lith raised his hand and the boy yelped, afraid to be beaten like it had happened so many times in the past. His father, Thram, was a monster in the body of a human but still a human. Lith was a monster through and through. Osyan wasn’t afraid of dying anymore but he was still afraid of pain.

Great was his surprise when the hand landed gently on his trembling shoulder and Lith knelt down to be at Osyan’s eyes level.

“It’s not your fault.” Lith said. “None of what happened was your fault. You didn’t get beaten up because you were a bad kid but because your father and mother were bad people. No one can choose his parents. You were just unlucky.

“It’s not because you did something wrong that so many people died on that day. Meln Narchat is a cruel, deranged, piece of shit who doesn’t care about those he hurts as long as he gets his way.

“It doesn’t matter where I was or with whom I was, he would have attacked anyway. You don’t have to feel guilty for being one of the few survivors. I know that you feel like you don’t deserve to live and that it should have been someone else, but that’s not true.