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"Poke ?" Madawc rapidly shoved his arm away from Bette, ripping it free from her grasp in the process. Madawc did kneel in front of the king as well, but merely because he felt that if he didn't do it, it could result in more or less ugly consequences.

Xavier however managed to surprise him in multiple ways simultaneously: First of all the demon was not fully able to understand of just which 'many' demons attacking other people he was talking about. Apart from himself, he hadn't seen any over the course of their jounrey. Of course it could be possible that Xavier had encountered them before they had met, but wouldn't he have revealed that earlier then ? The second thing surprising him was his request for retirement.

Madawc couldn't kneel there in silence any longer. Without turning his head towards the former mute, he whispered towards him: "Does that imply that our common journey ends here ?"