Walking in the Question and Answer System of Heroic Spirits

Ta-Miao: "..."

She didn't take Jack's words to heart, thinking she was just saying it in anger, but soon she really regretted it.

An arrow pierced his heart, but Jack showed no reaction, merely turning his head to stare numbly at Atalanta.

The other person's gaze actually made Atalanta feel somewhat afraid.

【"Why..."】

The next second, jet-black magic erupted from Jack's mouth, and Atalanta, unable to dodge, was instantly engulfed.

In that instant, Atalanta saw hell.

In 1888 London, the city had tens of thousands of prostitutes, and even nine-year-old girls were forced into prostitution, with no dignity whatsoever.

Without contraception and with outdated abortion techniques, these children, who could have been born naturally, are being treated like garbage.

The infant's corpse was thrown into the river, and the resentment of tens of thousands of babies, rejected even at birth, accumulated and gradually manifested as an evil spirit in the form of a young girl.

She was an abandoned child of Chongqing, born only to seek maternal love.

[When the blank-minded girl couldn't help but call out "Mom" to a woman she encountered, she was met with merciless insults. Overwhelmed with grief... she then killed the woman.]

[The killer who terrified all of London, Jack the Ripper, was born.]

After several victims appeared, a magician finally realized something was wrong and intervened, eliminating Jack before he could grow stronger.

[The abandoned child of Chongqing, thus ended his short life.]

[Perhaps even she herself didn't expect that an evil spirit, which wasn't originally qualified to become a Heroic Spirit, would meet the criteria for being recorded in the Throne of Heroes because of human fear and propaganda about it.]

Everyone in the group fell silent. They had never imagined that Jack's birth was such a sin.

Ta-Miao: "How could this be..."

This scene was quite a shock to Atalanta, who loved children.

Those were tens of thousands of unborn children who were cruelly murdered by their own mothers before they even had a chance to see the world for the first time.

Webber and other YG employees were also at a loss for words for a moment.

Who could have imagined that the late Victorian era would be so dark?

Demon King: "Humans, they truly deserve to be destroyed."

The First Emperor exclaimed, "Outrageous! Children are the hope of a nation, and you barbarians dare to treat them so cruelly! Do you even deserve to be called human beings?!"

Fuxi: "A bunch of hypocrites, all of them are hypocrites!"

Ai-chan: "Rebellion! Let the flames of rebellion be ignited!"

The Conqueror King: "These women all deserve to die."

King of Heroes: "Hmph, what an ugly and disgusting sight."

Kotomine Risei: "Lord, please forgive their sins..."

Artoria: "Great Britain, how did it become like this..."

Lancelot: "Your Majesty, do not take it to heart, do not be angry over such a decadent and corrupt country."

Mordred: "That's right, if we were here, we would have cleaned this place out on the spot."

[Having finished reading about Jack's life, Atalanta's nightmare was far from over.]

Countless children floated around her, all staring straight at her.

Their eyes were filled with death; there was no joy, no sorrow, no hatred, and no love.

Atalanta tried to retreat, but her entire body was immobilized.

"Stay with us."

The children grabbed Atalanta's limbs and burrowed into her body like parasites.

【"ah!!!"】

Atalanta let out a piercing scream, not from pain, but because she sensed the despair of her children.

Chapter 288 - They're Just Children

Atalanta wasn't the only one affected.

Not far away, Joan of Arc and Sieg, who had been tracking them, were also attacked by the evil spirit's black mist before they could even react to what was happening.

They, too, saw that hell.

"Stop...please, I'm begging you, stop!"

Having only been exposed to the world for a few days, Sieg couldn't bear such darkness. He immediately curled up into a ball, letting out a heart-wrenching growl.

The illusions in my heart have been tainted, and the beautiful scenery that should have been there has gradually faded.

When he came to his senses, he was already standing alone on a street.

"Yes, that's it."

A raggedly dressed girl appeared in a nearby alley and said in an eerie voice, "The world is ugly, that's why we want to go back."

[Zig: "...Where do you want to go back to?"]

"Back in Mommy's tummy."

One girl after another appeared, staring blankly at Zieg with their empty eyes.

"I want to go back." "I want to go back." "I just want to go back into my mother's tummy." "Why? Why does everyone bully me?" "I just want to be saved, why won't anyone save me?" "Are we bad?" "Do they hate us?"

The girls grabbed Sieg's arms, their faces a mixture of tears and laughter, dissolving and seeping into Sieg's body.

"The world is ugly, we know that. Even so, do you still want to live?"

The resentful voice instantly left an indelible scar on the boy's heart.

Sieg: "No, stop! What kind of hell is this...?"

Joan of Arc: "Sieg!"

Afu: "Zig, calm down."

Weber: "It was really too dark for someone who had only been in contact with the world for a few days."

Rin Tohsaka: "Don't even mention him, Sakura and I are both traumatized by him."

Compared to Atalanta and Sieg, Joan of Arc recovered much faster.

"Even so, there's nothing to discuss unless we defeat them."

[A steadfast and powerful will repelled all the evil spirits that tried to approach.]

Why aren't you afraid?

"Why should I be afraid? You are clearly just pathetic victims."

Upon hearing this, countless children immediately rushed out and knelt before Joan of Arc.

Their appearances were vastly different, yet they shared a certain unified feeling.

They perfectly embody what is meant by hell on earth.

[“Saintess.” “Angel.” “Save us, so pitiful, so incredibly pitiful. Save us, save us, save us, take our hands, please, please, please…”]

The children clung to Joan of Arc's hand, believing that the saint would surely save them and offer them redemption.

However, Joan of Arc's face showed no sympathy or pity, only unwavering sternness.

"I can't. I can save lost children, and I can purify regretful souls through prayer, but there's one I can't save: Jack the Ripper. Because you're already embedded in his legend."

"The serial killer known as Jack the Ripper has become 'nobody and nobody.' Can you be sure that the people you've killed are Jack the Ripper's victims? You didn't know their names or what they looked like; you killed them simply because you wanted to emulate your mother, didn't you?"

Atalanta: "Why! Aren't you a saint? Why can't you save them!"

Joan of Arc: "..."

Achilles: "Boss, calm down."

Amakusa Shiro: "Because although they are evil spirits, they are essentially still the heroic spirit of Jack the Ripper. They cannot be exorcised."

Father Mapo: "Their only destiny is the Throne of Heroes."

Upon hearing Joan of Arc's words, the children froze.

Who was Jack the Ripper? Was he a doctor, a member of royalty, a painter, or just an ordinary person...?

All sorts of gossip and rumors are both lies and the truth.

Who is Jack the Ripper? He is everyone, and he is nobody.

[Jack the Ripper already encompasses all the possibilities in this world. Given the right conditions, it's even possible to summon seven different Jack the Rippers to wage a Holy Grail War unique to Jack.]

Kenneth: "This is something I really didn't expect."

Rin Tohsaka: "I thought King Arthur and Gilgamesh had enough classes, but according to this logic, Jack the Ripper has the most classes."

Feng Xi: "Because it's mysterious, you can call it anything, which is why different classes of Jack were created."

Feng Xi: "However, unlike our King Gilgamesh, the different classes of Jack should all be a separate individual, not different forms of a single individual."

Weber: "Did human gossip create so many Jack the Rippers?"