Calamity Upon This World

Chapter 140: Ch-140 Proof Of Humanity

"Answer me, please. I beg of you," she asked with tears in her eyes, barely able to speak coherently.

And as for the man her question was targeted at, he just remained silent as he muttered.

"I'm sorry"

Despite Williams barely audible tone, she could easily hear him.

And hearing his words, she felt nothing but her anger increasing at the man who had come to deliver the corpses of her fiance and her brother-in-law.

Tony was the love of her life, and they were supposed to live their whole lives together.

But he went ahead and got both himself and his brother killed.

She had warned him to quit the job multiple times due to all the dangers involved in his profession.

And today her worst fears had come true: the love of her life was dead.

She couldn't even properly think or process what had happened.

She wanted to grieve and cry like her parents-in-law were, but instead of that, she felt herself losing her sense of reasoning as her whole self was consumed with anger at the people who allowed Tony to die.

She didn't know who the black-haired man was, but just the fact that he was representing the Adventurers Guild was enough for her to hate him.

But even despite this, she managed to keep her emotions in check, as she knew that the black-haired man wasn't the man responsible for the deaths of her fiance and brother-in-law and was instead just the one who was in charge of delivering the corpses.

It was only when the man tried to offer them compensation that she finally lost control of herself and ended up lashing out.

She still couldn't believe that those insensitive bastards at the guild would try to compensate by just offering some money.

And hearing the man only apologise once she asked him to explain it to her  pissed her off even more than before.

In the end, there was nothing she could do but say.

"Get out of our house!!!" she yelled in a hostile tone, making her intentions clear.

"I understand, ma'am," William replied.

"I'll leave the guild compensation here, and I would like to once again apologise if my actions came off as rude or insensitive, and I pray for you and your family to get through these tough times," he said as he dropped the pouch containing multiple platinum coins off in a corner and dissapeared in the shadows, almost like he was never even here.

Seeing him leave, she finally fell down on her knees, dropped the act, and allowed herself to grieve for those they had lost.

**

"Phew, that was tough," William muttered as he sat on a bench in a nearly empty park.

After coming back from the dungeon and reporting Sung, he personally volunteered to be the one to deliver the corpses of those who died to their loved ones.

Usually this job was done by the guild, as adventurers hated seeing the devastated reaction to the corpses they were supposed to deliver to their loved ones.

It somehow made them feel guilty about letting their party members die, which is why it was weird for William to personally volunteer for such a job.

But the guild staff didn't complain, as it only made their job easier.

The only reason William volunteered was so that he could see the effects of his fuckup and incompetence firsthand.

And despite already expecting the reaction he was going to get, it still didn't make it easier.

Today he had gone to nine different households, and in every single house, his heart broke even more and more.

He saw a daughter who had lost her father, a wife who had lost her husband, a mother who had lost her son, and a brother who had lost her brother and many more. Continue your journey on m|v-l'e -NovelBin.net

The lifeless expression that all of them had in their eyes broke something inside his soul every time.

Honest William preferred the hateful reaction of someone like Tony's fiance a lot more, where she blamed him for the deaths of their loved ones, than his parents, where they just said nothing and just looked like they had lost their purpose in life.

That silence and soulless eyes did nothing but multiply Williams guilt.

Those eyes made him feel like he was the one who had killed their son, despite knowing that it wasn't really his fault.

But despite this, William still couldn't help himself from asking.

'What if I was a bit stronger?'

Would it then have been possible to avoid such needless tragedies and deaths?

But alas, it was too late now, and there was nothing he could do but take revenge for what had happened to them.

The guild had a policy of giving compensation money to the loved ones of dead adventurers who died on mission.

The money wasn't anything crazy, but it allowed the loved ones to live a modest life.

But despite this, William still had a promise to keep, and while he couldn't keep his first promise of keeping them alive, he at least kept his second promise and added all the money they would have gained from selling their share of the luminous blue stone to the compensation money.

This much money should hopefully allow them to deal with personal problems and live comfortably.

Of course, William knew that money didn't heal the wound of what they had lost, but it would at least lessen the pain compared to if they also needed to worry about financial issues on top of what they had lost.

William had signed a mana contract for this kind of thing with the miners, but the contract became null due to their deaths. Still, out of his own good heart, William decided to uphold his end of the deal.

Honestly, today William was really reminded of his past life, where he would personally go to deliver the corpses of his gang members to loved ones.

William wasn't ever close to any of his men, but he still felt responsible for them due to them being his men.

And due to being their leader, it was his responsibility to be accountable and look after their families after their deaths.

But despite this, William could never get used to those soul-less eyes and wails when he went to deliver the corpses.

This feeling of guilt was one of Williams's most hated feelings in the world, right below being looked down upon.

Ever since being reincarnated, William had almost forgotten how valuable even a single life was and how many people, even the most seemingly insignificant person affected.

But today, despite the emotional turmoil he was going through, William was still smiling.

After all the pain in his heart and the guilt he felt just went to show that despite how big of an omen his existence had been so far, bringing tragedy wherever he went, all the power he wielded as well as the potential to become a god in the future and literally gaining the bloodline of a mythic being, at the end of the day he was still human.

It proved that William Verhein, the child of Mana, the divine human,the second ever wielder of a divine aspect, the heir of the Verhein county, the boy with the greatest potential, the carrier of the bloodline of the only phoenix in the universe, the contractor of four spirit dukes, was just a human like everyone else.

And that was something worth celebrating.

But he was getting sidetracked; it seems his endeavour today ended up taking longer than expected; thankfully, he is now done.

It was now time to meet the cleansers for the first time after the dungeon.