"Because it's more to your benefit if you do. Not everyone in that rotten little village is completely gone. Some of them recently moved here and unknowingly got caught up in the awful mess. But for the ones who've been tormenting your family for ages? Well, forgiving the debt, particularly when they know it, will eat away at them for ages because they'll have to accept that you could have destroyed them with the words 'pay up'."

He reached into his pocket and unfolded a piece of paper, a number at the bottom highlighted in green.

"This is how much you're owed."