Lingyi's nonchalant attitude only made her seem more cruel.
"Really?... But if you do that, many of the people you call good will probably turn against you, even some children."
Patchouli pointed out calmly.
"They won't hurt those children, and may even sympathize with and protect them, but at the same time, they won't agree with your actions."
"Among those who deserve to die, there are often their relatives and friends."
"And not only will you kill them, I'm afraid you won't even give them a peaceful death?"
"Have you ever considered that people will try to stop you and become your enemies? Those you consider kind may actually see you as something more terrifying than a gastrula? The most evil demon king in the world."
"Those children are grateful for your protection, but they will also see you as a disaster when they witness their loved ones being tortured."
She looked at Lingyi, her eyes calm and clear.
"You, what are you going to do? You will become the enemy of the whole world, and it is you who pushed these innocent people to the opposite side."
"This is indeed very disturbing."
Ling Yi sighed softly in distress, but there was no hesitation in her voice.
"I can only hope they can come to their senses, otherwise we'll just have to kill more of them."
"I can kill the entire world by myself. Considering the level of this world, I can still do it."
Hesitation will defeat.
Her heart and her knife were both crystal clear, without a trace of confusion.
"..."
The Holy Emperor felt a chill running through his bones, as if he had fallen into an ice cave that had been there for thousands of years.
My hands and feet were terribly cold, and the chill seeped from my fingertips all the way into my heart.
"Kill them all together?"
"Of course, because you're wrong about one thing. When they stand up to protect those pests, they are no longer innocent."
"I understand their inability to stop or change these pests before, and I don't blame them. But when the time comes to reckon with them, they still try to excuse and cover up for those pests. Aren't they accomplices of these pests?"
"They may just be reluctant, or they may just want to protect someone important to them, but pests are pests, and their protection will only encourage these pests to harm others."
Ling Yi's voice was tinged with sarcasm. "How is this any different from letting a vicious dog out to bite people even though you know it will?"
"Any sympathy or leniency towards evil will turn into a sharp blade against the innocent. That is not gentleness or kindness at all, but ignorance."
She paused. "They are accomplices of evil."
"Unless they can keep these pests under control, and after giving them appropriate punishment, I won't kill pests whose crimes don't deserve death. But can they? Can they guarantee that vicious dogs won't injure people?"
"Of course." Ling Yi chuckled. "It's not like I'll kill them just because they say something in favor of those pests. I'm not that extreme."
"After all, they are not pests themselves. Their crimes do not deserve the death penalty. At most, they should be locked up and allowed to reflect on their actions."
"Unless the other party is beyond help, then we can only... kill him."
Patchouli stared at the cold moonlight in Lingyi's eyes, and suddenly remembered the basement of the Scarlet Devil Mansion - humans who had hurt Remlia were once imprisoned there, but she never used the inhuman term "pest" to describe them.
Compared to Lingyi, the vampire Remlia may be more gentle towards humans.
Because of this person, that person will be expelled from the society.
I'm not just saying it, I feel from the bottom of my heart that if someone is not kind, they are not human.
“…I think I understand.”
Patchouli nodded slightly.
"You are Chaos Evil."
"Eh? Chaos Evil is too much, right? At least Neutral Good or Chaos Good, right?"
"Finally, do you generalize?"
"Of course not. I don't have any confusion in my heart because I am clear-headed and correct enough. It is the murderer who deserves death, not the human being."
"Even if demons eat humans, it doesn't mean that all demons deserve to die. The ones who deserve to die are the demons that eat humans. I can be friends with demons that don't eat humans."
"What's that saying? Killing is to protect life, and to eliminate karma doesn't mean killing people."
"Killing is to protect life, and to eliminate karma is not to kill people... Is this your creed?"
Looking at Lingyi, Patchouli felt that she had a clearer understanding of the person in front of her.
"That's right, I'm not crazy. I've never targeted a certain group, but something—something disgusting, despicable, and despicable."
"If I'm targeting a group, someone might object and ask, 'Does XX deserve to die?' Indeed, no matter what group it is, there are always unique individuals. But what if I'm targeting an issue?"
"Then, if you want to refute me, it will only happen like this: someone steals and sells the children of others for a little money to satisfy their own selfish desires. Then this person, and those who protect them, come to me and ask, do they deserve to die?"
"Do you think there are innocent people? I don't think there's any point in even discussing this kind of thing."
"I see. You do have a clear understanding of good and evil, and everything you do is logical."
"That's right!"
Lingyi nodded, feeling a little proud.
"I can rest assured that."
It's too extreme, but she is not crazy, she is terrifyingly sober!
Even if they were children she sympathized with, if they stood against her, she would not hesitate to wield the knife.
And she will tolerate and treat kindly those she approves of, even if they are monsters.
What she did was crazy, but she was actually quite sane.
"Then do what you want. You can ask me for help as long as it's not too troublesome. After all, we are teammates now."
..........
"Killing is to protect life, and to cut off karma is not to cut off people..."
The virtual screen disappeared, and the Holy Emperor could no longer see Lingyi or hear Lingyi's voice.
At this moment, she was sitting alone in the moonlight, with Lingyi's words echoing in her mind.
Lingyi explained his motives, reasons, and logic quite clearly.
She is obviously not a devil or a lunatic. Her words and deeds are indeed in line with the right things, but they may be a little too right.
But, if we kill all those who persecute and resent the Cursed Child, how many people will die? Perhaps, as Lingyi said, over 90% of the world's population will die.
The hatred for the Cursed Children is most intense among the plundered generation, who personally experienced the time when they were massacred by the gastrulae.
However, because the cursed children do contain the enterovirus, and because of the deliberate guidance of some organizations and individuals, most other people also hate and reject them.
50. I've never seen anything like this before.
"Any sympathy or leniency towards evil will turn into a sharp blade against the innocent. That is not gentleness or kindness at all, but ignorance..."
Lingyi's words reminded the Holy Emperor.
Lingyi's approach will result in the deaths of many people, but when you feel reluctant, just think about those children.
Think about how the evil people who were let off because of your soft-heartedness will continue to harm those children.
Moreover, she would then be an accomplice to those evil deeds.
That is not gentleness or kindness at all; it is condoning and allowing those people to continue to hurt those children.
"..."
The Holy Emperor pursed his lips and his gaze gradually became firm.
This dispelled much of the confusion, depression and despair in her heart.
But, do so many people really have to die?
Evil deeds should not be forgiven, but there are certainly many people who do not deserve the death penalty.
Some people don't really hate the cursed children, they just hate those children according to the trend.
There are also people who are not as despicable as Lord Lingyi said, who speak ill of the heroes who protect them. They just don't understand those children at all.
I don’t know what the children did or what kind of life they led.
They have no way of knowing because governments around the world are deliberately covering up information about this.
She had to do something about it...
........
"Great, Muq!"
"—!"
Patchouli, who was suddenly hugged, froze in place, and even her body under the purple robe subconsciously tensed up.
In her hundreds of years of life, this was the first time she had been hugged so affectionately.
The strange touch between their bodies and the close breath made her mind go blank.
"I don't even know how to describe how I feel right now! Can I have a kiss and a hug, and maybe a lift up high?"
Lingyi pressed her face against the other's cheek, her hair brushing against the witch's sensitive earlobe. Her tone was as excited as a child, and her eyes were shining with undisguised excitement.
"..."
Patchouli finally came back to her senses from her daze, and a visible blush appeared on her fair cheeks.
Then he frowned and reached out with a look of disgust to push Lingyi's head, which was rubbing against his cheek.
"Don't come close to me, you... We just met, right? Do you know each other well?"
Even his best friend Remlia had never been this close.
"And—" She gritted her teeth, veins faintly visible on her forehead, and shouted in a weak voice, "What kind of weird name is MuQ? Forget it right now!"
The witch, feeling both embarrassed and angry, had a faint blush on her face. She tried her best but couldn't push away this guy who had no sense of distance.
But the witch soon noticed that Lingyi was stunned.
I don't know why, but I was suddenly stunned when I looked at her.
Then Lingyi immediately let go of her, looked away again, and apologized with a slightly red face.
"Ahem.....Sorry, I'm a little too excited."
Patchouli, so cute!
The witch named Patchouli has a beauty and temperament far beyond that of ordinary people. Before this, Patchouli always had a calm, scholarly and mysterious feeling.
Then at this moment, there was suddenly an obvious emotional fluctuation, and a look of shame and anger.
Simply put, the contrast between before and after dealt a heavy blow to Lingyi.
She suddenly remembered her identity as a concubine, and immediately distanced herself from Patchouli.
Of course girls can cuddle and hug each other because their hearts are pure.
But it won’t work for Xi, who has other ideas!
"..."
Patchouli was tidying up her messy clothes while looking at Lingyi with a frown in confusion.
She didn't understand Lingyi's reaction, and she didn't understand why Lingyi suddenly hugged her.
"Are you so excited?"
Just now, she helped Lingyi prepare a special potion.
The effect of the potion is simple - increased perception.
After Lingyi drank the potion, he suddenly hugged her.
"As for that."
Lingyi changed her embarrassed look and nodded seriously.
"I can sense the evil in others, but my range is far from ideal, so this potion helps me a lot."
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