Towards the Unbeatable

Act 243: Listen to Others Talk!

"Ahahaha, I was just kidding Arthur! Besides, I am now in a fun place, you can calm down and tell other friends to let me go too because after all I cannot meet you in the real world, I can only wait for you in the next life."

"Thor! Ugly jokes! I thought you were talking seriously ...." Arthur put his hand on his chest a little emotional up when faced with the joke of his best friend.

Thor only laughs when he sees Arthur angry, he sees that Arthur's anger is not serious anger or annoyance, but vice versa, Arthur responded to his joke with an attitude of rising emotions when indeed he was also not serious in his anger.

"Thor, even here you haven't changed?"

"Of course, I'm not the type of person who has many traits or is also easy to change, I who you or others know will remain the same at any time!" Thor smiled gently as he said this.

"But still I'm surprised to meet you here Arthur."

"Shocked? You even said that twice, why would I see you?" Arthur was wondering why Thor felt this meeting did not want him to do.

"I'm actually happy to be back to see you Arthur, even if it has to be in a place like this."

"Then ... Then why do you seem to behave as if this meeting is not desired by you?"

Thor finally began to speak seriously to his best friend. "I'm going to ask you one thing .. Are you Arthur?"

"W-what do you mean Thor? Of course this is me! I'm your best friend from childhood!"

"Is that so? Have you seen the shadows of your past that are divided into two parts?"

This sounds like a silly conversation for Arthur, when he had just met his best friend, so is there no other talk?

"Why are you asking Thor weird questions? Is there nothing we can talk about but that?"

Thor shook his head. "No, Arthur, I told you, our meeting is really unexpected right now I want to ask you some questions that I want you to answer honestly."

"Questions?"

"I repeat again, do you see the various impressions of your past from two different sides?"

Arthur finally tries to answer Thor's question with the previous incident he saw.

"Y-yes, I saw myself having fun with my friends, there were various fun things that happened when the shadow of the past appeared, but suddenly the shadow changed with the number of criminals I punished, who I punished using the rule of law."

"Then is there a sound you hear when you're in this place?"

"A sound? Ah yes, the first voice that appeared was a kind of appreciation, praise from the people to me for my hard work and suddenly there were voices of criminals who roared and asked that the punishment be lightened, he said, but I'm still guided by the law and I don't heed any excuses they're trying to say."

Thor nodded at the reply of this blond man.

"Then do you see the difference between the two shadows of your memory and the two voices you hear?"

Arthur tries to figure out what is the answer to Thor's question.

"I see me as an ordinary Arthur and I as the law-enforcing Arthur."

"Are Arthur's two attitudes the same as you think?"

"What do you mean Thor? Of course the same, I'm an ordinary Arthur who upheld the law ...."

"Have you ever seen anything that you thought was evil outside the law?"

"Huh? What are you talking about Thor? Of course I will see something based on the applicable law alone! Because that is indeed our goal as knights of justice enforcement ...."

"You ... are not the Arthur I know" Thor said with a sad look on his face.

"What?"

Arthur was shocked to hear the words of his friend. "I'm .. Of course I'm the Arthur you know Thor!"

Thor shook his head. "The Arthur I know is kind to everyone, friendly, helpful, forgiving, and even many other good things."

"But I was not at all acquainted with Arthur who saw that every bad man was truly evil and even ignored their story, Arthur who was full of ambition to uphold justice only in his own view, Arthur who is hard, unforgiving, arrogant and does anything and even kills someone, I don't know you like that."

"Does that mean justice doesn't need to be done?! Are you trying to tell us to be lenient with crime makers?! It will only create new problems that will arise!"

Hearing Arthur's stern defense leaves Thor with no choice but to continue talking to him.

"The enforcer of justice is for every person, good or evil, if indeed you side only with good people ... that means the bad guy doesn't have the justice he's supposed to get from a law enforcement officer."

"Listen to criminals?! Am I not wrong with Thor?! How could we possibly trust a criminal who has indeed acted as if he did nothing evil!"

"As if? What if it's true that the person you think is 'evil' is the one you only suspect to be a criminal?"

"T-thor's? What do you mean say that?"

"Help ... Arthur, I thought after you saw the flashbacks of your memories and those voices you could understand a little, but .. You're not the kind of person who listens to others whose thoughts don't go along with yours, are you?"

"W-what?"

Thor then draws near to Arthur, the light on his body following him and it makes Arthur feel glare.

"I'm the one who's been trying to let go of the group that you thought was illegal."

"What?"

Arthur heard what he had denied using only his own thinking; he did not expect the facts to be different from the results of his thinking.

"You-you? That Demon Mask you're Thor?"

Thor nodded. "This is just a small example of Arthur, that indeed the things that you believe or think do not always go according to your thoughts alone, the odds for a different outcome are pretty great if you just use your wild assumption that's it."

Arthur fell silent when he learned the reality that did not match his expectations.

"Then I asked, what about your decision on the 'evil' people that you immediately punish without listening to them at all? What if they're INNOCENT?"

"...."

The pressure of the conversation made by Thor makes Arthur a little enlightened, he finally realized not all things must happen according to what he thought, he finally realized, now there comes a time when he listens to others and stops focusing on his own beliefs.

"Is that? What have I been doing all this time?"