William knew he had to stay here for a slightly longer time and wait for the return of the patriarch. He could smell the scent of gunpowder in the air just by imagining the future negotiations he would have with the clan about such spoils of war.
'I can still use her,' William stole a gaze at the back of Berry and couldn't help but inwardly sigh. 'Don't take it against me, I need to grow stronger fast, help you and others to become stronger as well. It's for your own good too, got me, right?'
He was a little manipulative here, but that didn't mean he was evil. Even if he found such a good excuse to justify his actions, he knew it wasn't that great to use a girl to get what he wanted.
'Anything to get what I wanted,' he ended this little debate in his mind before finally stopping with everyone else.
They finally arrived back to where this all started, to the old patriarch's mansion.
