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Chapter Thirty-Two

In the living room of his house, Jarvis sat down thinking,
with the Advisor’s words blowing like wind from one
direction and Reynold’s words blowing from the other. He
did not know in which direction to go. For a long time, he
kept changing positions while thinking, then he went to his
bed, lay down, and kept thinking all night. He stayed that
way doing nothing, not even eating, sleeping, or leaving the
house.
That continued for days until he reached a solution
for the dilemma. He remembered the Advisor’s words,
“The living ones are more important than the dead ones.”
Indeed, the living ones are more important than the
dead ones. If I lose Hammond, I will end up losing three of
the people I love the most even if I avenge my father and
brother, he thought.
Sometimes, one has to sacrifice really precious
things for the sake of things which are more precious.
Unfortunately, what Jarvis had to sacrifice was so precious.
He had to sacrifice what the Prouds had sacrificed their
lives for, for centuries, which was dignity. He did all that
just for his brother Hammond.

The next morning, Jarvis went to the leader’s house,
entered the house frowning, and stood facing his brother.