"Save a thousand people and repay my debt?" Nick asked with a confused voice.
"Yeah," the rat said. "You destroyed one statue boy, and you would kill one statue boy above killing a thousand innocent people. So, if you save a thousand people, you would have saved more than one statue boy, right?"
Nick furrowed his brows. "I don't think it works like that."
"Why not?" the rat asked with annoyance.
"You can't really cancel a bad deed out with a good deed," Nick said.
"Why not?" the rat repeated.
Nick sighed. "Even if I saved a thousand people, Horua would have still died unjustly."
"But a thousand people surviving something that should kill them is not unjust?" the rat asked with a raised eyebrow.
Nick frowned and looked at the rat. "What are you trying to say?"
"Destiny, you know?" the rat said. "If statue boy was supposed to live longer, you changed his destiny, and changing someone's destiny is unfair, according to you."
