The fact that Arel was in his hands, that Arel heard him and came from him, all this filled Kors with some indescribable pride. Which of us will become a Demon even faster, he thought.
And Arel threw up his head:
“Do you want to become a Demon?” He chuckled.
“Do you continue to hear me?!”
“Yes.”
“You've evolved! And I helped you with this. No, it looks like the Demon won't kill us. What do you know about my Mission?”
“Nothing.”
“Although yes, what can you know, you don’t really hear anything.”
Arel shook his head in understanding.
“Forgive me, prince, I didn’t mean to humiliate you.”
“Humiliate?”
“I used to think that my Mission was related to the Upper City. He wants to make Alis the king of the red, and he will make me the king of the black. But now I began to doubt it. Maybe he will make you king? Royal blood flows in your veins, mine doesn’t.”
I don't want to be king.”
“As if someone asks you!”
“He won't make me king. He will take revenge on Leonardo and smash the Black City to hell, just as he smashed the Western Limit of the unclean and the Slave Farm before. Here's what he'll do.”
“And I? What is my role then? I cannot become a king, I am not a descendant of a royal family, like you…”
“It doesn't matter, Lis will become king, and he is a commoner.”
“No. His red father is far from a commoner, and we don’t know what they have there, maybe he belongs to the royal family, how do we know. And Alis is like Prince Ariel Riel. And even if not, everything is different with the reds, they don’t observe so strictly the purity of blood, there are many of them, and in fact, the king of the reds in the Black World is just a governor. The True King of the reds is above. Alis will make a coup and become simply the governor of the king in our world, which the reds use as their raw material base. It is quite possible that the status of the governor of the colony doesn’t require royal blood.”
“Lis will close the Portals and will not obey anyone.”
“Well, of course! Well, if I don't become king, maybe then I will become a Demon too?”
Arel only grunted skeptically.
“Why? I stand above you in the hierarchy created by the Demon. I am the ring finger, I am a noble warrior, and you are a slave.”
“The ring finger is the weakest and most useless of the five. You can't even move it properly,” said Arel.