Yomi, for all his flaws as a person, was not a completely unreasonable man. It was that reason alone that he took the job that was being offered when he was asked. After all, this job was to deliver a market across a small area of the country, and to protect him from the potential invasion of bandits.
Now, there are certain things that annoy people, and whilst he wouldn't admit it, bandits tended to annoy Yomi. Not because he didn't like what they did, but because he didn't like how they did it. Cruelty, murder, torture, pain were all beautiful, beautiful things; they were things to be worshiped like a god, because they were the one remaining truth when the rest of the world goes to shit.
However, bandits didn't appreciate that; they used it like means to an end, and they didn't even have any dignity and manners about it. Sure, soldiers didn't revel in the pain and misery they caused nearly as much as they should, but at least they had the common decency to be polite about it.
These people inflicted misery and suffering on the world, not through any sense of truly understanding the beauty of it, but simply because of the fact that they wanted money, and they would swear and curse and yell as much as it took to get that. Disgusting peons, they were worse than the dirt underneath his boots.
The merchant himself wasn't much better. There was something about him that reminded Yomi of the people that he was brought up to be judged by.
Since he brought about the loss of his mother through the mere fact of his birth, people had been judging him and looking at him as not "Yomi", but as "Tsuki Yomi, the son of the Tsuki lineage, the heir to one of the most powerful mages in history. The fact that he was her "follow-up act" as peopled seemed to imply meant that he was never going to be good enough in comparison.
The way that this guy looked at him, despite being in a position of power way above that of a paltry merchant, reminded him amazingly large amounts of those foolish morons who couldn't appreciate him for who he was rather than who he was being forced to replace. If he wasn't being paid for this job, he would have started torturing this guy a long time ago.
406/500
Now, there are certain things that annoy people, and whilst he wouldn't admit it, bandits tended to annoy Yomi. Not because he didn't like what they did, but because he didn't like how they did it. Cruelty, murder, torture, pain were all beautiful, beautiful things; they were things to be worshiped like a god, because they were the one remaining truth when the rest of the world goes to shit.
However, bandits didn't appreciate that; they used it like means to an end, and they didn't even have any dignity and manners about it. Sure, soldiers didn't revel in the pain and misery they caused nearly as much as they should, but at least they had the common decency to be polite about it.
These people inflicted misery and suffering on the world, not through any sense of truly understanding the beauty of it, but simply because of the fact that they wanted money, and they would swear and curse and yell as much as it took to get that. Disgusting peons, they were worse than the dirt underneath his boots.
The merchant himself wasn't much better. There was something about him that reminded Yomi of the people that he was brought up to be judged by.
Since he brought about the loss of his mother through the mere fact of his birth, people had been judging him and looking at him as not "Yomi", but as "Tsuki Yomi, the son of the Tsuki lineage, the heir to one of the most powerful mages in history. The fact that he was her "follow-up act" as peopled seemed to imply meant that he was never going to be good enough in comparison.
The way that this guy looked at him, despite being in a position of power way above that of a paltry merchant, reminded him amazingly large amounts of those foolish morons who couldn't appreciate him for who he was rather than who he was being forced to replace. If he wasn't being paid for this job, he would have started torturing this guy a long time ago.
406/500