Hawks from the Land of Light are calling me a dove and an undercover agent in the chat group.

And he was just the beginning!

Volume 1: 519. In a pitch-black world, eliminating pests.

519. In a pitch-black world, we must eliminate pests.

Initially, people thought it was just a minor disaster.

This is just a small change for one person, a small change for two people, until it becomes relevant to everyone.

When the first person was turned into a cursed child in full view of everyone, they were merely stunned and surprised, yet they still raised their guns, pointing them at the very person who had been their comrade just a moment before, the one they had hunted and hunted down alongside—

The creature that was human one second and a cursed child the next fired its gun, breaking her spine, her hands, and her feet.

No matter how anxiously she cried out after she realized what was happening, no one showed any mercy. Their eyes flashed with a crazed killing intent as they aimed at her head and heart.

With a bang, a life was lost.

Initially, people thought it was just an accident, a minor oversight by the devil's wicked sense of humor that caused all this change.

It wasn't until the hunt for the Cursed Children began that a second, a third, and so on, until the Cursed Children began to affect a portion of the government's high-ranking officials and a portion of the top executives of the conglomerates.

Thus, humanity's one-sided siege of the cursed child, driven by anger and unease, began to change and falter.

In the beginning, people would shoot at any sign of change, even if it was their friend or family member.

After a few days of mysteriously gathering his subordinates, a tycoon suddenly amassed all his military forces and opened fire on the civilians and other high-ranking officials, driving tanks and even hidden fighter jets.

All the top executives of that conglomerate have apparently been transformed into cursed children at some unknown time.

People were bewildered.

For the first time, the Cursed Children staged a truly large-scale rebellion. With that power, seeing the tycoon waging war against other high-ranking officials in order to protect itself, almost all the other surviving Cursed Children frantically gathered around it, amplifying the power of this massive tycoon.

The cursed children and this conglomerate continued to suffer defeats because they faced the military power of all the other high-ranking officials, and remained at a significant disadvantage in terms of military strength.

But this disadvantage was quickly reversed.

The other high-ranking members of the other faction, who should have been wholeheartedly fighting against this conglomerate and all the cursed children under its command, were suddenly betrayed one day. The high-ranking members of another faction woke up to find themselves the new cursed children.

At this moment, a highly probable scenario began to spread among all the other high-ranking officials.

The situation is now quite clear. They have no choice but to believe that, although they have never seen it with their own eyes, the five-year doomsday prophecy and the existence of the Mefilas aliens that Rentaro Satomi once promoted are probably all true. Otherwise, this inexplicable situation would not exist.

Gastrea viruses have not evolved at all, and even if they had, they could not possibly reach the concentration that could turn a person into a cursed child. All scientists have irrefutably proven this point.

The cause of all this is not the gastrovirus, but a certain devilish gentleman who is toying with humanity.

Humanity cannot fight against an alien who has never even shown its face and for whom we don't even know how to attack. So we can only find our own way out.

And so, without us even noticing, the winds shifted.

With the shift in all sides, offense and defense have changed.

Every leader has to consider that if they are still fighting the Cursed Child today, and they themselves become the Cursed Child tomorrow, wouldn't that be harming their own camp?

If I were to become a cursed child tomorrow, yet today I were to vigorously attack other cursed children, wouldn't that just be giving humanity the opportunity to defeat me?

The concerns of those in power were so obvious that they directly slowed down all attacks on the Cursed Son, and this idea quickly spread, even reaching beggars in the countryside.

The number of cursed children is increasing every day, while the human population is decreasing every day.

At first, those who were consumed by hatred for the Cursed Children continued to despise them and continue to hunt them. But gradually, even the most extreme people, those who believed that the Cursed Children were essentially Gastrea and all deserved to die, began to show fear in their eyes.

Too much.

There are too many cursed children.

From beggars to ordinary citizens, to police officers, to public security officers, to the military, to high-ranking officials.

Every social class has its members who are transformed into cursed children. They begin to inherit their original status, power, and resources, and they begin to fight back, filled with a sense of superiority.

A growing opinion has emerged that the Cursed Children are the evolved form of humanity, a noble new human, a superior and perfect life form above humanity.

Would anyone be willing to admit to such a statement?

No, of course not.

But violence will break all stubbornness, because that's just how people are in this world. You could probably find ten people in the whole world who can be called noble-minded, who have their own true opinions and stick to them.

The new ideas violently shattered all the prejudices and trampling against the cursed son of the old era, crushing all those who chose to persist in insulting and hating the cursed son.

They were powerless to resist.

Because it wasn't just the Cursed Children who were resisting; even the higher-ups, who were still human, chose to actively endorse and promote this new theory, suppressing all those who didn't support it and giving it their full support in terms of propaganda.

They no longer worried about becoming the cursed children; instead, every morning when they woke up, they would look in the mirror and curse themselves for not becoming the noble cursed children!

And so the liquidation began.

Those who had not yet been turned into children of the curse began to discover with horror that the children of the curse, who were once hated by everyone and would be shot if they showed their faces, were now swaggering into the streets.

On the first day, they were very cautious and fully armed. Only those wearing bulletproof vests and helmets and carrying firearms dared to come out. Even so, they were still attacked and besieged by the mob.

Human police quickly arrived and handcuffed all those who attacked the Cursed Son, taking them to prison.

The next day, the fully armed Cursed Sons swaggered around, heads held high. The people on the street looked at them with venomous eyes, but no one dared to attack them; they only dared to spit curses under their breath.

That evening, the police took away those who had been hurling insults at them.

On the third day, the cursed children took off their bulletproof vests and helmets and stopped carrying weapons. Even those who were not transformed from tycoons but ordinary people began to appear on the streets in small numbers and intermittently.

The cursed children broke into the shops owned by humans and took everything they wanted. No one paid for it. The shopkeeper tried to stop them, but then the human police appeared and arrested the shopkeeper.

On the fourth and fifth days, a brand-new privileged class was fully formed.

They were like the privileged foreigners in Japan after the Black Ships invaded, just as the privileged people were when the British entered British colonies.

It has even begun to surpass and become even more superior.

On the sixth and seventh days, the reckoning with the old era began.

Whether a human had hunted or hunted the Cursed Ones, or had kindly sheltered them in secret, everyone was treated equally and purged.

It started with the cursed children proclaiming their reasons to the human people, delivering judgments and kicks, and then turning into slaughter.

People began to kneel down, kowtow, and beg for mercy.

However, this is unstable. For some cursed children, kneeling down and begging for mercy to show submission is effective, while for others, they are still mocked and killed, dying in painful cries.

Humanity has become slaves and toys of the cursed child, whose immense power and superiority are fully revealed.

Initially, this purge was directed at the lower classes and beggars, then at human police and the human military, and finally, it reached the upper echelons of governments and tycoons who were still human.

The data on humans transforming into the new Cursed Children is being tallied every day. On the eighth day after the Cursed Children began their reckoning, the human leadership was shocked and horrified to discover something terrible.

Originally, from the moment people began to be transformed into new Cursed Children, the number of these individuals was increasing every single day. At that rate, it wouldn't be long before all of their high-ranking members were transformed into Cursed Children.

But now, the number of new cases has started to drop precipitously, with the number being cut in half.

And what's even more terrifying is that the proportions are wrong!

When the first high-ranking official was converted, the conversion rate and probability of high-ranking officials were very high after that. However, starting from the eighth day, all those converted were people from the lower classes.

There isn't a single senior manager, or even a single middle manager!

On the eighth day, I could still comfort myself by saying that it was just a technical adjustment, just a natural accident that happened one day, and that things would return to normal tomorrow.

But when the data from the ninth day came out, all the high-ranking human leaders were instantly overwhelmed.

The data for the ninth day was exactly the same as that for the eighth day. Not only were no high-ranking people converted into new cursed children, but the number of low-ranking commoners converted into new cursed children was also halved again compared to the eighth day!

All expectations were shattered in just two days!

The fear among the higher-ups rose rapidly from nothing to its peak in just two days.

They had previously fully supported the tycoons and high-ranking officials on the side of the Cursed Children in proclaiming that the Cursed Children were human evolvers, because according to the favorable data of those days, they were very likely to become the new Cursed Children together in just a few days at most.

In that case, it is natural to make plans in advance for one's new stance.

As long as all the high-ranking members are cursed children, there will be no drawbacks. As for what the common people below who haven't become cursed children think? That's not important.

But the new statistics seem to mock them. Want to become the cursed children? Sorry, that door is closed from now on. Humanity is forever separated from the cursed children. Want to be transformed again? Dream on!

They finally realized they were wrong.

They once thought they had everything under control. Although they didn't understand what the Mefilas aliens were trying to do, they just assumed that things would turn out that way based on their own assumptions.

But that's not the case.

The one-sided oppression by humans and the cursed children has changed. Now it is those who have lost their chance and are still human who will be held accountable!

On the third day, not a single high- or middle-level person was converted. The number of humans who became the new Cursed Children, not to mention the global number, had not only been halved in the Tokyo area, but had become zero.

Thus, the war that was about to break out began, and ended quickly.

This time, it was an overwhelming victory for the Cursed Children.

While there is no doubt that the human population is still larger overall, things are now completely different.

Humanity was once able to unilaterally eliminate and crush the Cursed Children because at that time, the Cursed Children could only rely on their own bodies, were at an overwhelming disadvantage when facing firearms, were too few in number, and were brainwashed, so they basically dared not resist or use their own power when facing humans.

Even if they rebelled, the cursed children of that time, even if they all united, could not defeat humanity.

After all, they are just cursed children. Even if they are classified as Gastrea, they are probably only level three, with the strongest perhaps being a very few who can be considered near-level four Gastrea.

The reason why humans cannot defeat Gastrea is that the number of Gastrea is so large that it exceeds that of humans, and there are also the strongest Gastrea at level 5, which are difficult to defeat even with nuclear bombs.

The cursed children do not have that number or strength, nor can they defeat firearms.

But things are different now.

The ratio of humans to the cursed children has reached almost eight to two. If there are 800,000 humans, there will be 200,000 cursed children.

With such a large number of Cursed Children no longer oppressed or brainwashed by old ideas, but having fully accepted the idea that "the Cursed Children are the evolved beings of humanity, the superiors, and the new humans," they are already able to defeat humanity simply by uniting and fighting on their own, even at a cost.

Now, the cursed children possess not only a new sense of superiority, but also the courage to bare their fangs and claws at humanity, and their sheer numbers.

Among them are even a large number of high-ranking officials, police officers, and military personnel, who possess a considerable amount of firearms and even some warships and missiles!

And humans?

For their own interests and positions, the upper and middle management desperately push their subordinates to fight against the onslaught of the cursed children. But can they really succeed?

The answer is that it collapses at the slightest touch.

If the war had started before humanity was purged, humanity might have had a chance of winning, since there are relatively more high-ranking officials on the human side, meaning that humanity possesses a larger number of firearms.