Chapter 444 – Prohibition and Taboo (9)
“…”
As I was reading the document containing additional information about the elves who had died after being extracted, I finally closed my mouth.
Last at last.
A record of their interrogation to obtain information through torture, starting with attempts at appeasement right before they were finally subjected to information extraction.
After I finally read the document containing various other records… I put it down and told everyone who was waiting for me to read the entire document.
“…So, this is all real?”
“Okay. “It’s all real.”
I could see Lilith’s stiff expression.
Everyone, including Lilith, had already read this document before me.
Therefore…
Everyone’s expressions weren’t very good.
“…This is reality.”
There was something in common between them and the children they rescued this time.
What they have in common is that they have the same father.
So, the dead elves and the children rescued this time were all related by blood, having the same father… They were brother and sister.
However, there were also differences.
Unlike the rescued children, all of the elves had fabricated memories that seemed to have been forcibly implanted.
No, some of the rescued children also had such memories, so this may also be something they have in common.
It’s just that the memories they had were slightly different.
Unlike the memories of some of the elves rescued within the border that they had to take care of and raise their younger siblings, the memories of the elves who were captured… And ultimately died, were that they had to take revenge on everyone who took their ‘mother’ away from them.
Even after all kinds of torture, interrogation, and cajoling, the elves never revealed their true background or anything else.
When asked why they did something like this, they all responded with extreme hatred.
‘You took away her mother.’
‘Her filthy kindred who only took advantage of her love, her generous gift.’
‘I will not forgive you guys, who are like parasites on a tree. You guys who took my mother away… I will never forgive you.’
Each and every one of them, crying out for their ‘stolen mother’, the torturers dispatched by the world government, the people who came out to appease them, and, at the very least, the words they cried out with hatred until the very last moment, are all coldly recorded, one by one. Was able to read the whole thing.
There were more than one elf captured at that time, so does it make sense that all of them had the same memories?
That everyone went on a rampage thinking that their ‘mother’ had been taken away and that they had to burn the world down as revenge?
Does that make sense?
I don’t know the father, but I know that all mothers are different.
The world government was also convinced of this.
The culprit is someone who is the ‘father’ of them all.
I, too, was convinced of this.
At that time, the earl who ran amok wearing a tentacled monster… No, the elves were probably the same elf children we rescued.
Children who are barely born and do not know anything are forced into mechanical devices to grow up… And for the purpose of throwing them away, they are implanted with false memories to cause terrorism, sacrificing themselves to death out of false revenge. It was left to greet.
He hated everyone in the world and was caught alive out of revenge, so he suffered all kinds of torture and would not open his mouth even when appeased, and as a result, he died that way.
I gritted my teeth.
I condemned those children as idiots who knew nothing and were not worthy of sympathy.
Without trying to know anything, I wasn’t sad or angry about the children’s deaths.
Since I didn’t know, I couldn’t help it.
I didn’t even try to find out in the first place.
“…”
“Hanzo.”
Hoa-ran’s hand came up on top of my hand, which I was holding tightly. Hoa-ran said, holding my hand as if to envelop it.
“If you get too angry, your heart becomes distorted. “I’d like to calm down a little.”
“…Yes. Sorry.”
It was just as Hoaran said.
I took a deep breath and calmed down a little.
“…So, nothing was saved this time?”
The important thing was not to be angry, but to catch the bastard who did it… And make him pay for what he did.
So, I decided to wait until then.
“Yeah, first of all… It’s not like we couldn’t save anything this time either.”
These were Justitia’s words.
Then, when Justitia snapped her fingers, a building appeared in the mirror in the distance.
“…This place?”
“In a sense, it can be said to be the ‘hometown’ of the children we rescued this time.”
“Your hometown?”
What on earth is that building?
“Hanzo, would you like to tell me what you know about elves?”
I suddenly wondered what he was asking, but he said what he knew.
“…First of all, they are a race of beauty so beautiful that they are all called a race of beauty. “A species whose basic abilities are higher than those of humans and whose lifespan is close to a thousand years?”
“Yes, it’s just as you said. And, maybe that’s why. Most elves are not good at having children. This is true not only for elves, but for most long-lived people who live for a long time. The longer you live and the stronger you are, the less reason you have to leave behind descendants. Well, that’s not important…”
So, said Justitia, she continued.
“Really, a facility has been created for elves that children want to have, and it is right there. It could be seen as a place for an elf couple who wants to see the fruits of their love, a child, or to make various preparations, even if not right away, for the future. It’s one of the popular things among elves recently. If things continue like this, the number of elves will become so small that… Their rights and interests may be relatively diminished.”
A race that lives long but has few children.
And, it’s not just about looking at numbers.
Still, it is a world government that is very concerned about numbers.
So.
“So, among the elves… They are encouraging people to have more children by creating such facilities. “I guess it could be said that the intention is to increase the number by collecting sperm and eggs from elves who are thinking of having children now or in the future… And making children through test tubes.”
…I understood.
You can think of it as a kind of sperm bank.
No, no.
It seemed similar to the facilities for infertile couples that existed in the world I lived in.
But… I wondered what that had to do with now.
Justitia continued.
“However, it appears that some of the elves who are the biological mothers of the elf children rescued this time are elves registered at that facility.”
Uh…
“…What do you mean?”
“I’ll have to find out more details. I think it’s probably definitely related to that. They all had the same father, but their mothers were all different, right? “It’s possible that the children’s father… Was a libertine like Hanzo, but the ‘mothers’ of those children didn’t seem to have anything to do with it.”
In other words.
In that facility… Probably, the eggs that were supposed to be stored for future children were stolen somewhere and those children were born.
No, it wasn’t stolen from the facility, it might have been just being used without knowing anything.
If they were capable of doing something like that, it wouldn’t be difficult to secretly get what they need from a facility like that.
I may or may not be in the same company as those bastards.
I didn’t know what it would be like.
I had no intention of moving on without knowing any more or not looking into it.
“So… What should I do?”
“First of all, we are… Me, Hoaran, and Justitia. “The three of us are going to meet the guy who insisted on building this facility.”
In response to my question, Lilith said that with a cold, stern expression.
“…What if it’s the guy who made the claim?”
“Do you think it would be possible for an individual to build such a facility at the request of an individual… And ‘recommend’ it to the entire species? Of course, there is someone behind it. “There is only one being in this world who can represent the opinions of the entire species and discuss the future, right?”
One of the twenty-two councillors, and a councilor representing the elves.
High elf, Guinevere.
A person who argued for and pushed for that facility, saying that one day, the outnumbered elves might be pushed to the background.
Naturally, it seemed that the three of them had decided to ‘officially’ meet the person who was the de facto person in charge, manager, and owner of that facility.
“…What are we going to do when we meet?”
“Whatever. “You have to find out if it’s black or white.”
“What if,” Lilith continued.
“If the result is black, I will also tell you what the traitor’s words are.”
Lilith twisted the corners of her mouth into a smile.
A smile so deep… It smells bloody.
The leader of the twenty-two-year-old hero who did not forgive his enemies and ruthlessly excluded them.
The ‘Empress’ was there.
The Transcendant was a hero who protected the world, but that is why he became a slayer.
“I entrusted you to run this world well, not to us, the strong idiots… But to you who are at least a little smarter, to do well in the future. I didn’t ask you to turn it into this mess. “Even though I didn’t set it up myself, I am one of those who set it up, so I should take responsibility for that.”
“Anyway,” Hoaran continued, taking Lilith’s words into consideration.
“So… Whether it’s related or not, there will definitely be some movement there as well. “There is a possibility that it may be moving right now.”
Next, Justitia spoke again.
“So, Hanzo and… Hmm, can Carmina go over there and check?”
I roughly understood it.
Whether they’re trying to cut ties or hide what they’ve done, it’s clear that their henchmen will come from that facility as well…
Either way, it seemed like they were attacking both at the same time so as not to give them time to do so.
“Okay.”
When she nodded, Justitia said while looking at me.
“Yeah, then Hanzo and Carmina… Do you want to come over here and try some of this?”
“Yeah… No, wait a minute. “What is this again?”
Naturally, I was about to drink the potion that Justitia gave me, but when I asked about it, Justitia looked at me and said,
“Well, that facility is in a residential area that only elves can enter. Although it is not a place where Elfman’s autonomy is recognized, it can be considered a special district equivalent to that. Anyway, I guess it’s okay to say that races other than elves are not allowed to enter.”
“…So?”
“So, Hanzo and Carmina, who have to go in there, have to become elves for today.”
I see
Understood.
“…Is it really that easy to change races?”
“It’s not easy, but it’s not impossible.”
No, whatever.
I, too, have been transformed into Werehoneybee… I know that changing races is not impossible…
“…I understand first of all. “All you have to do is drink this.”
Well, that’s it.
Hey, why not try being an elf?
