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Chapter 11 - Learning the Truth

Thinking over Rueth words while sitting in a carriage seat Asmo was beginning to become afraid, afraid of his lack of real knowledge and afraid of siblings who he never met in his life. "Relax we are going to the out lands, they wont be able to touch you out here. Your wounds have healed and you are learning more on how the world works, treat the injuries like a lesson and move on." Hearing Izzy who was sitting infront of him Asmo just shook his head, and went back to his thoughts.

"I want to know" "Know what?" Turning her head Izzy looked into his eyes and stared, in her gaze was nothing but worry. "I want to know how the world works." "I can only teach you what I have seen with my own eyes, I'm not a scholar who can tell you of the ancient past but a former soldier do you understand?" Hearing what he had to say Izzy gave him a fair warning. "I want you to teach me, I'm tired of playing." "Let's start with the basics then, do you recall how I taught you about the peace treaty with the non-humans?" "Yeah but what does that have to do with anything." Smirking she just went back to talking. "Well that's the official situation told to the public, the reality is far different. There never was any desire on the non humans side for peace, the only ones who wanted it was the humans so as to ensure the deal was made something had to exchanged for peace." "What did they want, the royal treasury or gold?" Looking up toward the sky and seeing the clouds move slowly, Izzy showed a depressed smile. "No they wanted humans, they needed them to feed their growing large population. We proposed that we sell them the humans instead of capturing and eating our soldiers, we keep our soldiers they get some villagers that way nobody will ever hear about."

"What!?" "Shocking right, the entire war is just them focusing on eating humans the entire story of a war of genoicide is just for the public. Oh we did try to eradicate them but they are too numerous and they have certain abilities that make them superior to us all." Hearing her Asmo just was left shocked, and finally got the courage to ask his next question. "So why do my other siblings hate me?" "You misunderstand they don't hate you it's just the person who is elected king gets to live while others are given to the non humans as a tribute. In order to have the peace agreement signed we agreed to give them royality as well, the only way to live is to become king."