Chapter 399
There were people accused of demonism.
The crowd was outraged, and the guards were blocking the angry crowd, telling them not to impose private sanctions on them.
What happened during the three hours we were gone. They were all executed.
This happened not in a rural village, but in the capital of a country, no matter how small it is, in a plaza with a warp gate.
Those who were accused of being demonists died, and the angry mob was screaming that even the dead bodies should be burned.
I don’t know if the Heretic Inquisitor arrived and immediately branded them as heretics and executed them, or if the guards came forward and hung them up.
However, this execution, which proceeded too quickly, could not have been carried out properly.
“it’s crazy… … . all people… … .”
I thought something terrible would happen, but I didn’t know that it would kill people without a proper trial, so Olivia seemed to feel fear beyond disgust and contempt.
Fear resembles anger.
That’s why the fear of the demon king turns into anger against the neighbors and goes looking for a scapegoat.
Olivia walked towards the investigation headquarters, ignoring the horrible execution site and the angry crowd.
“What on earth are Levi, the royal family, and the Church of God doing?”
“… … .”
I couldn’t say anything.
“No way, are you doing this on purpose?”
The royal family and the church did not do anything. Rather, it is possible that this situation was encouraged.
You could say that they are not demonists, but ordinary people. The crowd may or may not believe it.
But unless the scapegoat is executed, the raging rage and fear will not subside. In fact, whether they are demonists or not, their anger only temporarily subsides when they die.
The scapegoat was executed unusually quickly to get the crowd intoxicated that something had been resolved.
When angry mobs become rioters, great chaos will ensue. The act of freeing those whom people suspect are demonists only in itself increases the anger of the crowd.
In order to control the situation, innocent people were killed.
Olivia read that situation.
Getting to the truth is not important.
Already, it was clear that this purposeless violence of the fearful crowd following the demon lord’s attack would play a decisive role in Olivia’s hatred of humans.
* * *
“Are you going to leave this as it is?”
Back at the Special Investigations Headquarters, Olivia asked Scotra Kelton, the head of the Investigations Headquarters.
The middle-aged knight with a calm expression seemed to fully understand what Olivia was talking about.
“Miss Olivia, you must know what I am talking about.”
“I know that this can be interference in internal affairs, and that the investigative headquarters does not have such authority. still… … . This… … .”
No matter how disillusioned Olivia is with humans, she hasn’t become the kind of person who agrees to kill casually.
“I am aware that this situation, if left unchecked, could lead to mass riots and indiscriminate hunting of cultists. The Special Investigation Headquarters came here not to influence the internal affairs of the Levina Kingdom, but to investigate the truth about the demon attack. I can’t do anything else.”
Olivia is no fool. Of course she knows what Kelton is talking about.
However, I witnessed the scene of madness where a heresy trial happened in an instant and a person was hanged.
However, the special edition must be operated according to the purpose, and what is happening in Lazierne is obviously outside of work.
That’s why Olivia knows that she’s talking too much to Scotra Kelton.
But I can’t just leave this situation alone.
Olivia still has humanity to the point of thinking that way.
“Of course, if only Levina could express a few words of concern about the situation without special authority, it could have a significant impact.”
The 3rd division commander of Shanafell. Already in itself, being the king of a small local country was a good position. He even now takes orders from the Empire and is in charge of field command duties. Although he interfered in internal affairs, he had the attitude that there was nothing he could not do.
“However, the act itself could interfere with the internal affairs of a country that already has sovereignty. That’s why it’s not Levina that’s important.”
“Other vassals… … . Are you talking?”
“yes.”
To the extent of Leviathan, he can interfere in internal affairs. However, it can be very uncomfortable for other emirates to know that you interfered in the internal affairs of the emirate. Even if it is the sovereignty of a small country, it is an infringement on the sovereignty of a vassal state.
Every country belongs to an empire, but after all an empire is a union of many countries. There are places where the empire is self-governing, including the imperial capital, but the vassal states have their own laws and sovereignty.
Even in this case, the imperial investigators who came to investigate the case interfered in internal affairs and acted inconsistently with the purpose.
It was Scotra Kelton’s position that there were too many conditions to be contested, and no matter how difficult the situation was, it was Scotra Kelton’s position, and Olivia and I could not help but understand that.
“Also, I don’t think this approach is too bad. Bringing the truth to an angry mob only makes them more angry. A few innocent people will die. It will be quiet soon.”
Scotra Kelton speaks in passing, rolling the pen as she reads the report and makes a mark somewhere.
That’s right.
You have to tell those who are looking for a scapegoat that the scapegoat is innocent, only to find another scapegoat or get more angry. Anger, even if the cause is wrong, must be resolved.
Will a riot break out and create chaos, or find a scapegoat and kill a few to restore stability?
Levi, the royal family, and the Church only chose the lesser evil. Olivia was looking at Scott La Kelton, who was indifferently rolling the pen with her devastated expression.
Rather than resenting his cold conclusion, Olivia herself seemed devastated because she couldn’t find an answer.
“Of course, there is one person who does not have the authority but has the authority to interfere in internal affairs… … .”
he stares blankly at me
“Reinhard-kun.”
“… … yes.”
“If you claim that you came here as an agent of the imperial family, you can discuss appropriate measures with Levi or the royal family.”
“… … You said it was meddling in my affairs?”
“I said this under the premise that you have a plan to handle it. I have no intention of handling it, but Reinhard-kun may have a different opinion. Isn’t Reinhard-kun under my command?”
He himself is a knight, but I am a semi-royal family with the imperial crest.
If the head of the investigation headquarters talks about Levi or the royal family, he is doing something that does not correspond to the purpose of the investigation, but it is said that it is possible for the agent of the imperial family to contact and talk with the royal family. Of course, that would be interference in internal affairs, but I could talk to Levi or the royal family as much as I wanted.
However, in that case, not only I but also the imperial family would have to take responsibility for everything that happened because of my reckless talking.
The imperial family’s coat of arms wasn’t simply a ticket to use the warp gate.
I also understood why this was never given to anyone carelessly.
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Why did Tana send me here?
Now I have some sense.
Did he mean to try to stabilize the chaotic situation in Levina?
His life was not in danger, but if he succeeded in this, it would be a sufficient achievement.
It may not even be a solution. Maybe I’m trying to find out how I react in the face of such a big problem, not a trivial one.
But how?
no.
By the way, these bastards of the Empire are getting a little pissed off?
If you think about it, you caused a terrorist attack in a small southern country, and in the end, you say I don’t know about the aftermath, right?
Isn’t it a situation where the demon lord is framed and told me, the demon lord, to clean up the shit?
* * *
People in Levi and Laziern, the capital city, were going crazy due to the aftermath of the demon lord’s attack, that is, the fear of the demon lord.
The result is leading to the method of finding out the Demonic Cult. Of course, most of the innocent people who are actually hunted out and killed are innocent people who have nothing to do with the demon cultists.
It seemed that the royal family and churches, who knew that they were innocent, were deliberately sacrificing those innocent people to calm the angry public.
In the first place, the Demon King never intervened in this place.
In the end, the reason why the empire drove the revolutionary forces into the small southern country and killed it was also because Levia was a small country. Even the investigative headquarters will be thinking of disguising the case, and they say they don’t know about the aftermath of the incident, saying that it could interfere with internal affairs.
It is an old truth of public interest that the terrible things the ruling class do is immeasurable. It was even more terrifying now that it touched my skin.
The empire that has caused this situation and is sitting on its hands is terrible.
The victims who don’t know anything, but in the end, Levi, the royal family, and the Church of the Five Great Gods, who try to stabilize the situation by hanging innocent victims, are terrible.
If you think about it properly, the crowd who knows that it can’t be, but replaces fear with anger and searches for a scapegoat, is also terrible.
“Hell was nowhere else.”
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Standing by the window, Olivia muttered grimly as she listened to the clamor of people in the distance.
In the days when the Demon Realm existed, fights took place in a specific area called the Demon Realm. That is why fights and battles, blood and slaughter were only in that place.
However, now that the Demon World has disappeared, demons can infiltrate the world of humans and suddenly appear and disappear somewhere.
That is why people were going mad with fear of the immaterial enemy, fear that they might be alive and breathing near them.
So, since they couldn’t find an enemy in the form of a demon, they tried to find an enemy in the form of a human inside, and that was the demon cult. But not even the Demonicists were here, so they only doubted each other and hated each other.
“What are you going to do, Reinhardt?”
At this point, I’m the only one who can make less noise and approach Levi or the royal family. It was okay to report this to the imperial family, but the general manager, a knight of Shanafel, responded that they could just leave it alone.
Whether it’s Charlotte, the Emperor, or Bertus, they’re sure to tell you to leave it alone if you hear about it.
what am i different
If you tell those who are looking for a scapegoat that this person is not a magician, people will not believe it, and even if they do, they will eventually try to relieve their anger in a different way.
There may be a way to ban the search for private heretics and to control the residents by issuing martial law or something.
But if the angry mob then riots, it will cause even greater disaster. A riot can overthrow the royal family, and if the crowd is beaten up to quell a riot, that is catastrophic.
It’s a miserable thing.
Scotra Kelton wasn’t wrong when she said that the least bloodshed would be to keep things quiet as innocent people died.
“Unless there are real demonists and they get caught, or the demon lord dies… … . I don’t know how to solve it without seeing the blood.”
Can I be sharp? I’m not particularly a genius, and politics isn’t my field either.
Even if I met Levi or the king and did something presumptuous, what would he say? There’s no such thing as a sharp number.
Olivia was standing by the window, quietly looking down the street.
She came to hate humans, but in the end, she couldn’t calmly watch innocent people die. Isn’t that nature eventually disappearing somewhere?
“This is what people become when they are consumed by despair… … .”
It wasn’t even certain that the demon king would come again, but in reality the damage wasn’t that great.
However, fear spreads among people independently of reality.
The fear of the name of the devil is talked about and reproduced among people, and inflates its insubstantial size.
It’s just that it’s not called that name after all, but it’s no different from faith. Just as people who don’t know about God say what God is and establish it as a common concept.
A belief called the Demon King is being created among people.
None of what they say resembles me, but people add flesh to the unclear reality of the demon king and mold it into a form of fear.
A new faith in the name of the demon lord that only creates fear and despair with faith.
-Find the demonists!
It will be rising all over the continent now.
Lazierne is just too much, and since you can’t find demons all over the continent, people will try to find enemies in human form, demonists.
This is just the beginning.
A large-scale search and hunt for demonic cults will begin.
– Trust Artorius!
-The warrior will be resurrected and defeat the demon king!
And, the words I heard out of nowhere.
Olivia looked out the window and tilted her head in my direction.
“… … ?”
“… … ?”
What did I hear?
-The warrior Artorius will protect us!
“You didn’t hear me wrong, did you? I think you said Artorius?”
“huh… … . that… … . I guess?”
no.
What kind of nonsense bullshit is this?
* * *
I thought that it was possible for people to shout about finding out the Demonic Cult, but Olivia and I ended up hearing more out of the blue.
Do you trust Artorius?
Olivia and I immediately ran out into the street and caught the screamer.
“hey.”
“Artorias will save us… … !”
The person who shouted such a bizarre thing was an old man from Wenchoro.
“What is it?”
“What are you talking about? Trust Artorius.”
“I hope you too believe in the hero and be saved… … ! There is absolutely no need to be afraid of demon lords!”
He shouted powerfully with an expression full of faith and faith. Olivia was perplexed, and so was I.
“No, Artorius is… … . Fighting the Demon King… … . Are you dead?”
He shook his head at my stuttering words.
“Ugh! What a young man does not know what to say! Lord Artorius did not die, but ascended to heaven! He accomplished the great feat of defeating the demon king and became a god of war… … ! Yes, you have risen to the ranks of martial gods! By the way, since the Demon King has returned, wouldn’t it be natural for Artorius to return to complete the unfinished mission!!”
no.
“You too believe in the hero and wait for the coming salvation… … !”
What the hell kind of dog is this?
The old man walked away from the bewildered us and started shouting loudly.
– Trust Artorius!
-The time of salvation is coming!
-The warrior will return! Fear not!
Staring blankly at the back of the old man who was moving away, Olivia and I met eyes.
“What is the cult of warriors?”
“How do I know… … .”
The Demonic Church hunting and these parts still existed within the scope of the accident.
The emergence of a new religion that worships Lagan Artorius was completely unexpected, and we couldn’t help but be dazzled.
