The soldiers seemed to think it was just an exercise, and cheered when they hunted monsters and found materials.
[Gyaaah, stop it, stop it already!]
âHahaha, this demon is yelling something!â
One of the knights laughed and stabbed a harpy with his sword as it fell after being shot by an arrow.
I sometimes fight them when I meet them in the forest, but it made me feel uncomfortable to see them being tormented in this way.
ââŠI donât feel well, so Iâm going to step back.â
âOh, was that too much stimulation for you, little girl? Or maybe you were offended when your friends were beatenâŠoops, my bad. Ha ha ha ha.â
At my words, the knight who was escorting me laughed like a fool.
Because I was subhuman, they associate me with monsters. That might have been the common perception of humans, poisoned by Human Race Supremacy.
âThatâs not good, Carol-sama. We will take you to the rear.â
âYes.â
A few thin knights, who looked like civil servants, offered to escort me.
âDonât you guys have to fight?â
âOur role is not to fight directly. Come on, this way.â
They treated me as if I were a normal young lady, but unlike the simple escort knights earlier, their smiles were like masquerades and I couldnât read their emotions.
A few minutes into our walk, they moved away from the battlefield and toward the back of the forest.
âThat way is not behind them, is it?â
âYes, we have a tent over here. You donât feel at ease in the company of people like the man who was speaking earlier, do you?â
Yes, that was true, but more importantly.
âAre they really going to attack Daemons? What if they are civilians?â
âThatâs right⊠Even within the country, nobles and others who are unfamiliar with local affairs are saying such things, so they are sending out their troops for practice this time as well.â
The knight smiled as if troubled, and sighed grandly.
ââŠI guess itâs about time.â
The surrounding knights surrounded me and drew their swords the moment he muttered that.
ââŠWhat is the meaning of this?â
I asked, narrowing my eyes, and he smiled as he pointed the tip of his sword at me.
âYou said it yourself, didnât you? That they are civilians. But all Daemons are an enemy of all of us.â
A common enemy created outside to unite the country. It was a common but simple and effective measure.
The knight was just as narrow-minded as his appearance, but he had a solid sword. And maybe he had even higher status than the knights at the front.
âYou can scream in terror, canât you? Or do subhumans not have delicate emotions like humans?â
ââŠâ
I stared at him silently as he shrugged his shoulders in a theatrical gesture.
âWell, it doesnât matter either way, but to answer your question at the end, to make Daemons enemies of humanity, Miss Carol, a subhuman, must betray humanity and cause damage to the troops, so that she will be killed here. Well, if that were not the case, I would have asked you to drink poison that would have put you in a vegetative state, but the Prime Minister seems to have suffered damage because of the Daemons, and he wants me to kill you, a subhuman as well.â
ââŠâ
The Prime Ministerâs dogâŠ.
Apparently, the future has changed because I destroyed the Prime Ministerâs smuggling ships and drug farms.
I was supposed to be poisoned, which would have saved my life to the point of paralysis, but the Prime Ministerâs hatred of subhumans spurred him to order them to kill me instead.
Before the change, the future would have had no such spoilersâŠ.
But this time, the Prime Minister put his emotions first, even though the route he took before the change was probably less problematic, the fact that Cam would be devastated when I died did not change.
Overall, even if the future changed, the fate it followed was the same.
âIsnât it time for you to go? Iâd like to say that you donât have to suffer⊠but my friends and I hate subhumans to the point of repugnance, so please show us the face of your suffering.â
ââŠâ
If I died here, they would be right, and Human Race Supremacy might spread even to the commoners. Even if I fought against the knights, the outcome might go according to their intentions. ⊠ButâŠ
StillâŠ
ââSetup [Witch Dress]ââ
âGogh!â
Instantly, a woman dressed in crimson, her skirt embroidered with roses and thorns fluttered, gripped the black metal-reinforced gloves tightly, and with ten times the status of an average person, she struck the knight squarely in the face, and the man screamed in a strange voice as he flew ten meters away.
âââŠââ
In the forest, which was stunned into silence by the sudden events, I quietly announced to the remaining knights of the Prime Minister while holding the Zanbatou Ridil in my right hand and the magic gun Break Revolver in my left.