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Chapter 50: Truths

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Chapter 50: Truths

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Azula was a tricky opponent and I had guided her into a battle of intelligence to increase my Intelligence Stat. But the last thing I wanted was to get overconfident and lose, that would be a horrible way to go out.

She looked at the ground for a split second, seemingly contemplating what to say. "My mother thought I was a monster."

By her smirk. I could tell that she thought she could trick me like this. But I knew the truth behind it. This was the absolute truth, Azula's mother was abusive, though in a different way from Ozai. Telling your child she was a monster, what kind of parent does that?

Well, some might say it in the head of the moment, but never mean it. At least most of the time. 

Azula looked at me strangely, as if waiting for me to say something. Right, she could never imagine that I would know something so personal about her in any logical way. 

Well, since she told me something about herself, I will match it with something of my own. Not about my life as Sokka, but as someone else. "I lied to the people I loved. Initially, I used to tell them everything, but then I started isolating myself, lying to hide my true self that was a failure in reality. Until I realized that it was too late to say anything."

Would she be able to tell whether I was lying or telling the truth? She was hurt by her truth, but I wasn't. Mine had been dulled by the passage of time, there was regret, no denying that, but it was useless to think about it now. Even if I had told them how much of a failure I was back then, it would have only worried them needlessly, and I would have regrets for telling them. Yeah, this was the kind of thing that had no right decision.

Or maybe there was one, but I just couldn't see it.

Azula muttered, confused. "I am good at telling when people are lying. But I just can't seem to read you. The best liar that I ever saw."

She didn't know what I told her was the truth. Just like she did with me, so even if she saw past my "deception" there wasn't anything I was hiding. 

[You have outplayed a highly intelligent person, your intelligence increases by 1]

Even the Gamer Interface seems to address her as smart. Was she as intelligent as I thought? Well, guess she was, though I consider Iroh to be smarter. Or maybe he is just wiser. Azula had a strategic mind, with high intelligence, Iroh was smart too, but he was wiser than smart.

How long until Katara saves Aang? C'mon sis, do your job, your brother is spilling his heart here to the enemies. "It's your turn now princess. We can't stop this little game of ours, let's see who goes further."

She took that as a challenge and turned off her fire, the prison room immediately became dark. It was as if she was testing me whether I would attack her.

That's a pretty good idea, but I wasn't here to attack her. 

"No one in this world loves," she said emotionlessly.

Oh, so she turned off the fire so I wouldn't be able to see her face. It seemed like I misunderstood her there. Well, we have already gone this far. There was no reason to stop here. Though I did wonder just how desperate she was to say these things to someone else, even under the guise of a lie.

"It's your turn now," she said. There was no tone of taunting in her voice. Just simple seriousness.

Well, it would be useless to try and lie now. "I never tried hard enough in my life, that's why I failed. These regrets will haunt me for the rest of my life."