Mahavira remained silent for a while before he spoke in a heavy tone, "If you are giving me this money so that I won't betray the godfather again, then you might be disappointed."
"Oh?"
Russell raised his eyebrows, revealing a gentle smile, "How so?"
"You must have heard from the godfather that I have told him many times to his face—'When he falls into decline, I will betray him.' You're worried about him because of that, aren't you?
"That was no lie, and I wasn't being disingenuous."
Mahavira answered calmly, "Even up to this point, he has not entirely earned my approval. He isn't domineering enough, lacks ambition and aggression, and isn't invasive enough — If I wanted to sincerely serve a ruler, he should display to me his nearly absurd ambition. That kind of madness where, if not to rule the world, then to destroy it, and never to take a step back for that purpose.
