Only Wisdom Awakened - Chapter 208

Chapter 208: Aiden’s View
With the end of the year approaching, Hans’s teaching pace slowed down, and all the students reduced their training time to normal, as they enjoyed the last few days before the end of the Academy’s first year.

Also, the fact that Hans would leave the Academy became widely known, and both the students and the teachers tried their best to spend some time with him.

He was so busy that he didn’t even have time to read or meditate.

“Hey, Hans.

When are you going to form your eighth circle? It’s been more than three months since your advancement to the seventh tier, don’t you think your growing pace has slowed down a little?”

“Sigh… I’ve been really busy these last few days, but I’ll break through in two days, after returning to Chicago”

“Chicago? What’s that?”

“It’s a city I’ve been living in for the past few years…

Well… technically, it’s almost been a year since I’ve stopped living there.

Such a pity, I even bought a big house…”

“I don’t recall you having any problem with money…”

“Well, of course, after all… I’m rich”

All the materials from the Pankus Hans had hunted in Greenland had been sold, and Hans profited a fortune, that couldn’t compare in the slightest with the money he had before…

He didn’t have that much use for all that greenery, but he was sure it would turn out useful when his family would eventually wake up.

A great party was held during the last day’s celebration, but since most of the students had already returned home, Hans found it bothersome to attend.

Inside a black car with tinted glass, Hans was sitting in the backseat, and just beside him was Aiden, who was curiously glancing around…

‘Woah… we’re being driven around…

Since when has Brother Hans become so rich?

Well, I guess the fact that he managed to buy a house without thinking twice about it must mean he was pretty well off even before…’

The boy’s curious expression was suffocated immediately by a sense of guilt and pity…

‘When I think that I am living a life like this when defenseless people are out there dying… I feel like I do not deserve to be here’

Hans saw Aiden with a troubled look on his face, so he asked:

“I’m sorry for suddenly dragging you away…

I guess you wanted to attend the end-of-the-year party…”

“N-no, it’s nothing like that brother… Even Grant has already left, so it wouldn’t be fun for me to stay still all the time at the party, there aren’t many people I know anyway”

“I see… then what is it?”

“What is?”

“Why the long face?”

“Oh… it’s nothing just-”

“Aiden…

Are you still thinking about what you told me last time?”

“Uh…”

“Sigh… I don’t know how to tell you, you cannot be responsible for everyone on this planet, what would you do if you came across someone who deserves death then?”

“Deserves death… I… feel like I am not in the right position to determine who deserves to die and who deserves to live”

Silence…

The words spoken by Aiden were mature for his age, so much so that Hans was worried for someone as pure as him…

‘If I were to start teaching him right now… would he be able to adapt to the world of Awakened without any problems?

I feel anxious… and worried’

“Not everyone respects the law, and the law isn’t equal everywhere, if you play a game where the only one tied down by rules and morals is you, then you are bound to lose”

“It’s still hard to accept that…”

“Dont accept it then, remember it, and use it when you need it”

…

The boy asked a question in response:

“Wouldn’t that make my will and determination half-hearted? If I could just switch ways whenever I please…”

“Maybe… or maybe, It could give it a brand new shape”

‘It’s not that his ideas are wrong, he just has to take into consideration a few basic components of humanity like greed and cruelty, and then he might be able to create a stable path to walk on, otherwise, even if he were to become a hunter or an awakened who deals with other awakened, he would just save over and over people who are not worthy of living in this world…’

Half an hour passed, and they finally arrived at the airport, where instead of taking the usual route, they were escorted directly onto the landing strip inside the car.

“Brother, where are we going?”

“We are taking a plane back to Chicago”

“Yes, you already told me that, what I meant is, where is this car taking us? Haven’t we got past the entrance of the airport already?”

“The entrance? Oh… I forgot about that”

‘I thought he had already traveled with me once, but I only got the plane a few months ago, I’ve become so accustomed to it that it feels strange now having to wait for the air companies’ rhythm.’

“I guess you haven’t got the chance to see it yet”

“See… it?”

“We won’t be traveling like usual because… I’ve got my hands on this recently”

Hans said that as they passed by a little plane.

Aiden remained astonished at the sight of the vehicle.

“A-a private jet?!”

“Mh… I got it as a gift for a little favor”

‘Ha… haha… maybe he did get richer after all.’

Aiden mumbled by himself.

As Hans and his brother entered the airplane, the young man greeted the captain, and a few minutes later, all the doors were closed.

The silence that reigned over the room left room for Hans to ask an unusual question:

“Aiden… do you resent me for what I did to Logan?”

“Uh?!”

“As you said, it is not the role of a single person to decide whether others should live or die, and because of that, laws have been made and shaped through the centuries, and yet, something has changed from when these laws have been made…”

“Are you talking about-”

“Yes… awakened have begun sprouting all over the world, and I am sure that even if the gates’ monsters won’t do it, there’s a high chance it’ll be an awakened faction or being to bring our world to its downfall.

The laws were made in order to maintain peace as much as possible.

However, the laws can only work when we are all equal, when, even if different, none of us has the power to reign over the others, and the purpose of some laws is exactly to avoid such a person from rising to power.

So… what would happen if millions of people all over the world were to gain power individually?”

“The hardly built and rigorously shaped laws would… ”

“…Crumble”

Hans completed Aiden’s comment.

“That’s the reason why laws and awakened cannot coexist.

Even I have executed justice by myself…

Do you think the choice I’ve made is wrong?”

The boy in front of him was not struggling to find an answer, his determined eyes seemed to have already chosen how to reply.

“I think you made the right choice…

Logan Harris… deserved to die”

“Mh… but what if his only crimes were the things he had done against you?

Would my choice still be right?”

This time, the boy took his time before answering, but when he did, his eyes were as firm as the first time.

“No… your choice would have been wrong”

“I see…”

Hans didn’t ask the reason for the answer.

‘If he has the determination to say that even after being mistreated his whole childhood, then I suppose his resolve isn’t bad enough to crumble at the slightest gust of wind’

‘Now I have to find somewhere to get the right ingredients and recipe from, otherwise, he won’t be able to advance to the unique class {master alchemist}’

“Sigh…”

…

It took a few hours, but they finally landed in Chicago.

During the whole travel, Hans managed to meditate with the newly acquired {divine frost meditation}(tier-9)

He had been given by Caelan when teaching Colton.

He did not yield much results, but it did take him a step closer to his current goal…

[wisdom: 3499(+10)]

‘One last step…. Just one last little step, and I will finally be able to accomplish what I’ve been striving so hard for during the course of the last few years…’

They returned home, both happy to see the house once again after such a long time.

Aiden was taking a shower, when, after changing his clothes, Hans lay down on the soft mattresses.

However, his time to rest still hadn’t arrived, as his phone rang loudly a couple of times before a worried and panting voice talked to him from the other side:

“Hans!… pant… pant… do you remember that you owe me a favor?”

“Kenta?”

“Pant… pant…”

“Come to the association right now! it’s time for you to help me out”