Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 978

Chapter 978: Chapter 978 - Taming the Ceremony - 6

"The energy my witness described in the coliseum has no origin in any documented natural bond," Orion continued.

"What does have documented origin in the legends is the behavior of entities that need to disguise themselves to approach those who would not otherwise grant them access or confidence."

His voice still wasn’t accusatory. It seemed like the voice of someone sharing a concern they considered legitimate, the tone a person used when they wanted the audience to feel they were being trusted with something difficult.

Was the boy actually some strange entity in disguise?

"Things that genuinely help do not require that kind of approach. Things that do require it have ulterior reasons for doing so."

Was it not already a warning sign that something that powerful needed an innocent face?

Arturo spoke before Julius had finished formulating any powerful response that would clear the air.

"If we are discussing evidence and assumptions, what Lord Starweaver describes as evidence is also correlation, and the interpretation of a single biased witness," he said, with the contained voice of someone who has decided not to raise it because raising it would give Orion exactly the kind of reaction he was looking for.

"A tamer who has made documented, direct contributions to the defense of this city deserves considerably more than insinuations before his reputation is discussed in a formal session, and in his absence."

"These are not insinuations," said Orion. "They are questions the castle should have answered before we arrived here. Questions that anyone in this hall has the right to ask about exactly who they are protecting and why."

A pause.

"Such as this one: where is he?"

The hall went still.

"Where is tamer Patinder?" Orion repeated.

Not with urgency... With the calm of someone asking a question whose answer they already know and are patient enough to let the room supply. "This session includes the conferral of recognitions on the new adults of the fifth year. The first-place finisher should be present right? If his contributions are as extraordinary as we are told, if he is truly the young prodigy being presented to us... Why isn’t he here?"

"He is recovering from injuries sustained during the defense," said Julius.

"I understand." Orion nodded with the condescension of someone accepting an explanation they are not convinced by. "And these injuries are so severe he cannot appear in public after getting healer treatment by a healer even briefly?"

"The attack was intense and his contributions were considerable," said Arturo. "The protocol provides for representation in cases of justified absence."

"The protocol provides for many things." Orion turned toward the hall, not toward Arturo, the shift from addressing an individual to addressing a room again. "What it does not provide for is the first-place finisher receiving his lands, his titles, and his recognitions without being present to confirm that he accepts them and that he is in a condition to assume what they entail."

Another pause, placed to land where Orion wanted it to land.

"Unless the intention is to administer them on his behalf while the tamer who supposedly earned them never returns to public life. An experiment that went wrong. A boy who absorbed more darkness than he could manage and who can no longer be shown because what he would show would not be presentable."

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