I Have 10,000 SSS Rank Villains In My System Space

He could have killed the boy a hundred different ways. Turned his bones to ash. Eaten his spirit whole. But that wouldnʼt quiet the question now lodged in his mind like a splinter:

Why?

Why would someone especially someone so seemingly insignificant dismiss the Dragon Heart? Did he not know its worth?

Was this arrogance?

Kaeryndor clenched his jaw.

To kill him now would be too easy. And too unsatisfying.

It would leave a nagging unease... a question unanswered... a risk unmeasured.

”Is this truly the rambling of a fool,” he thought, eyes narrowing.”

The sacred artifact wasnʼt just powerful. It was sacred. The culmination of lifetimes of sacrifice, pain, and myth. To call it ʼuselessʼ wasnʼt just wrong it was insulting on a cosmic level. But Kaeryndor wasnʼt a mere beast defending treasure. He was a Warden. A judge. And right now, he had to decide:

Kaeryndorʼs clawed fingers curled ever so slightly, nails biting into the stone hilt of his weapon. The air around him burned with suppressed fury. His pride his duty could not tolerate such blasphemy.

To insult the Dragon Heart... was to insult the entire legacy of the draconic race.

And he its eternal guardian must hold the dignity.

He was the Guardian of the Dragon Heart its eternal warden, chosen by the flames of fate themselves. And the very idea that someone would dare call it useless...

Unforgivable.

In his eyes, there was only one appropriate response to such sacrilege:

To make the offender kneel. Face pressed into the ground. Begging for mercy with bloodied lips before ending their own life as penance.

Only then could Kaeryndorʼs fury be stilled.

His hand twitched on the hilt of the dragon blade, already picturing it cleaving the boy in half.

But then

The human spoke again.

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