Chapter 204 – Extraversion – Part 0, Chapter 2
“We didn’t do anything! It was all done by that woman alone!”
“That’s right. We did nothing wrong!”
For a moment, I doubted my ears that I might have heard it wrong. I wondered if it might be a high-level deception to produce the result of Mars pretending to be tied up and then abruptly attacking and knocking me down when I got close enough, but Mars’ face, which caused a pupil earthquake as if in great shock, and I knew what I was hearing was correct by the way the villagers treated her with sincere disgust.
“We will hand over that woman. So please have mercy on us…”
I naturally frowned at the tinnitus of the nasty bugs that polluted my ears. What the hell were those idiots thinking, if they offered Mars, I’d let them go?
Well, originally, humans are creatures who see what they want to see, hear what they want to hear, and believe what they want to believe. If you donate something you have, you might think that the higher the value of what you donated, the higher the ball will be bought and the less damage it will cause to you. It was just an absurd fallacy, saying that if it were me, I would act like that, and the other person would certainly do the same.
Mars was the last guardian who voluntarily defended this territory where the owner had fled without any payment, and there was no one to protect them anymore when he handed over his only ally to his own hands. And I had no reason to choose the unpleasant option of leaving behind the backs of those who would sell my allies to live their lives in an emergency, so I ordered the Immortal Army to wipe out all the helpless villagers.
Cut it, cut it. An immortal army of those who had returned from the dead and those who had been deprived of the right to die strode towards the civilians, who, let alone armor, were holding nothing useful as weapons. Seeing that unusual appearance, Mars flinched as if he realized what I was trying to do, but the villagers did not run away. They flinched as if they felt uneasy at the sight of the approaching soldiers, but their faces said that they did not even think that I would harm those who voluntarily offered Mars.
It was only after the soldier at the forefront grabbed the disgusting and heinous face of one of the villagers with his hand and tore it apart that ear-piercing screams broke out among the dumb crowd.
“Kyaaaaa!!”
Just as anger spreads quickly in a crowd, fear is also contagious in an instant. The villagers, who only now realized that I was going to harm them, scattered in confusion, each one spewing out a different, unpleasant cry.
“Uh, why…! Me, didn’t we surrender? Why are you doing this!”
If you’re so stupid that you don’t know why you’re dying until the very end, it’s better to just let you die without knowing it than to make it understand.
“No, no! I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die!”
Don’t want to die Who in the world wants to die? Even those who tried to commit suicide would not have sincerely wished for death, as it was the only way to escape from the pain that came upon them in the end.
“Mars-nim! Save us! Help us!”
That Mars, have you forgotten what you handed over to me just now? In the middle of the night, drugging her meals, disarming her irresistibly and binding her limbs.
“Help me! Help me! You said you would protect us!”
Throwing away a shield to protect them with their own hands, and now shamelessly asking them to come back to life… It’s really disgusting and disgusting.
“He said he would help! He said he would help! Help me! Help me!”
The attitude of as if they were innocent until the end… If I hadn’t cut out my guilt and fear, I don’t think I would have felt any guilt when I killed these guys.
“Sa, save me! I don’t want to die!!”
After all, worms were worms until the very last moment. Lightly overcoming another death, I cut the ropes that bound Marth. And he told Mars, who couldn’t even think of getting up in shock of being betrayed by those he was trying to protect.
“Wake up.”
“I-I…”
Seeing the one-sided tragedy unfolding in front of her eyes, she clenched her lips and trembled her arms as if she couldn’t believe her eyes. Are you sure you want to save it? For their comfort, those who betrayed themselves? No, it can’t be There is a limit to what a person is good for, and if that’s enough, you’re just a idiot and a hogu.
“I swore to… Protect the weak…”
“There are different kinds of weaklings. The good weaklings who suffer in the face of great evil, and the weaklings who pretend to be harmless on the outside and shrewdly take care of their share. It’s not worth protecting even if you have to sacrifice your body. Do you think you know about people who don’t even know grace?”
It was a word that I spat out to comfort myself, but maybe it was because I was a brat who had never properly spoken to a woman in real life, so even though I heard it, all I said was pouring out. Hey go, climber. Saying that would really comfort the other person?
“I… I wasn’t trying to help them for anything in return…”
“Well, I guess. Those worms don’t seem to have the resources to hire you.”
“With great power comes great responsibility, so as a person with power, I must protect the weak…”
Mars held her face in her own hands, distorting her face with tears flowing from only one of her eyes.
“But… After hearing the screams of those who betrayed me, I thought to myself, ‘You look good’… That’s not okay…!”
It looks very dangerous, as if it will collapse at any moment. If left alone, it will probably fall to its own grass before long. But I didn’t like to watch it silently.
“What if those who were mean to me were happy that they had done something bad?”
“What…?”
“Isn’t that right? Even though they kept you safe for free, they didn’t feel grateful for it, but rather sold you to me to guarantee their own safety. As for you, who was betrayed, don’t you deserve to laugh at their misfortune?”
Marth’s head turned towards me with a creak, as if it wasn’t intended for that purpose.
“In my opinion, Mars, you are too selfless. It’s not that your attitude towards others is bad, but you are too neglectful of yourself. Can’t you be a little selfish sometimes?”
“I am a knight’s oath. As one with power, I am determined to defend the weak. How can you tell me to be selfish?”
“Hmm… If you’re a little selfish, how about it? Is it so strange that I take care of myself? If you really care for others in the first place, you should protect yourself first.”
“What?”
Marth’s face frowned as if he had heard some strange words. Did I say something wrong?
“Think about it. If you want to help others, you have to be there first, right? How can someone who can’t take care of themselves properly help others? So taking care of you means helping those who need your help. “And if you’re willing to sacrifice yourself for the sake of those other guys, what about the other people? Not those selfish weaklings who use you to keep themselves safe, but the innocent, good-natured weaklings who really need your help?”
“That’s…”
Mars slowly lowered his head, as if he couldn’t think of anything to refute my words. It seems that the situation is more serious than I thought. How the hell did she live all this time… Just as her soldiers had just finished cleaning her bugs, I raised her Mars and took her to the center of her village, where she had lost her owner. On the way to the well in the center of the village, Mars’ face gradually turned pale as he looked at her broken corpse and bloodstains everywhere.
“Now, look closely.”
After arriving at the well, I had Mars tour the village again.
“How is it? What a terrible sight, isn’t it?”
“…”
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t answer. Anyway, as you can see, something very terrible has happened to this town. Maybe they weren’t that bad people normally. Just when I heard that a very scary and bad person called me was coming, I just wanted to live somehow, so I gave up my humanity. Perhaps if I hadn’t set the goal of invasion in this direction, they wouldn’t have revealed their selfish side that they weren’t aware of themselves, and a righteous knight who said he would protect such people with good intentions I wouldn’t have been betrayed and caught.”
Mars still didn’t answer, but I continued her words regardless.
“If that’s the case, no one would have died, and this village wouldn’t have turned into such a terrible place. It would have been able to keep its simple and ordinary appearance.”
“What do you want to say… What is it?”
I smiled at Mars, who managed to say that one word in a trembling voice.
“Bad means me.”
“Yeah…?”
“It’s all my fault that all these horrors happened, so there’s no need for you to feel responsible for their deaths. You did your best to do what you had to do, but the enemy was just strong. So there’s nothing wrong with you, What kind of story is that?”
“Now… Are you comforting me?”
“If that sounds like it, is it?”
I have to accumulate enough evil to become the enemy of my role, the hero. But I can’t let one of the fellow candidates of the hero break down here and retire. Looking at the fighting ability she endured all day yesterday against my army, who couldn’t even slow down the advance with dozens of soldiers, it was clear how reliable she could be as a ally if she later became a warrior’s ally.
I don’t know if there was an accident that wasn’t written in the script, that one of the fellow candidates for the hero was betrayed by the villagers he was trying to protect because of what mistake was made, but since it’s a problem right in front of my eyes, I have to deal with it. And here, if Mars reinforces his fighting spirit and becomes stronger and becomes the hero’s ally, I will be able to more faithfully fulfill my role as the villain who will fall to the hero.
“You… Have you ever comforted someone else?”
“Kek…”
“Ha… Who would have known that the evil baron who leads the immortal army would actually be a clumsy man who couldn’t properly comfort a woman. I would never have thought that the formidable enemy I fought with my life would be like this.”
“Sorry, for being this kind of person.”
“…Ahaha.”
Still… Judging by the freshness on Mars’ face, it seemed that the consolation I desperately offered hadn’t worked at all.
“So Mars, what are you planning to do next?”
“I wanted to stop what you were doing… But I realized that I couldn’t do it on my own. And at the same time… I wondered why someone like you was committing such atrocities. “He’s not a good fit. He doesn’t seem to enjoy this kind of work himself. And yet, if he’s willing to do something that everyone hates… That means there’s a reason for that, right?”
No this girl looks like she’s supposed to talk (physical) Why is she so needlessly sharp?
“I think you just thought of something rude…”
Cheer.
“Ah, it can’t be.”
“Hmm…”
“Oh, you asked why I’m doing this? Well, it’s just… I’m getting back what was taken from me.”
“Retrieve what was stolen…?”
“I am Ragna Armageddon. I am the last bloodline of the Armageddon family, which was one of the only three dukes and a founding member of this Hermon Kingdom, but has now completely collapsed due to the checks of the other two dukes. There is not a single member of the family other than me, Now I’m leaving. And I’m doing this right now to get back what was taken from the two dukes who took everything from my family.”
Hearing my circumstances, Mars was deep in thought. In the meantime, I ordered the Immortal Army to gather the bodies scattered all over the village into a large clearing. Since they did not have proper armed forces in their lifetime, there was no expectation that they would be able to serve even one person by joining the Immortal Army, and they intend to use them as bait and arrow receivers to distract the enemy.
“…You will continue to wage more wars than this in order to achieve that goal. More people will die, and the tragedy will continue. The suffering of parents who lost their children, and the hopeless lives of orphans who lost their parents… Even knowing that such a tragedy would happen, you wouldn’t stop, would you?”
“Of course. That tragedy is someone else’s business. It’s none of my concern, is it?”
It’s an extremely selfish attitude, but at the same time, it was my sincerity without hiding anything. Mars sighed and shook his head.
“It would be impossible to convince you. Then… I will join you in the wars you will wage in the future.”
How many times have you doubted my ears today?
“Could you say it again? I think I heard it wrong.”
“You heard it right.”
Mars shook his head and continued his words.
“If it is a tragedy that will happen anyway, if tragedy cannot be avoided, I will at least reduce it. Won’t you make a small sacrifice in the process?”
“…Are you serious? I’m a bad guy. Don’t you know what it means to go with me? If you stay with me, everyone’s resentment and criticism that will be directed at me will fall on you too?”
No, you’re a candidate for a fellow warrior in the first place, right? But why are you on the side of the villain, the hero’s enemy? Aren’t you that kind of kid? Even in the script, that route isn’t written at all, right? There is a route where a character that can be recruited as an ally suddenly appears as an enemy. What kind of nonsense is this setting?
“It doesn’t matter. If more people can be saved, that amount of stigma can be reversed.”
However, his demeanor was unwavering, to the point where it was hard to believe that Mars was the same person who shuddered as he watched the massacre of villagers just moments ago. Have you already made up your mind? No, I’ve only seen you for two days, so what the hell do you believe in following me?
“So… I look forward to seeing you in the future. He has terrifying powers, but he’s a bit clumsy.”
At that time, I did not know.
In order to reduce the sacrifice of as many people as possible, this overly trusting guardian who stood on the side of the villain, but later rather killed people with a smile on the battlefield, and was nicknamed the ‘Red Ghost of the Battlefield’. The fact that it will be transformed into.
