Chapter 399

There were people accused of being followers of the Masin religion. The crowd was angry and the guards were trying to stop them from imposing private sanctions on them. During the three hours we were gone, something had happened. They were all in a state of execution. This happened in a large square with a warp gate, not in a small village or even a provincial town, but in the capital of a country. Those who were gathered as followers of the Masin religion died, and the angry crowd was shouting to burn even the dead bodies. It is not known whether the heresy inquisitors arrived and stamped them with the heresy mark and executed them, or whether the guards came out and hung them. But this execution, which proceeded too quickly, could not have been carried out properly. "Crazy... everyone..." Olivia felt not only hatred and contempt, but also fear, as she thought that something terrible would happen. Fear is similar to anger. Therefore, fear of the demon king becomes anger towards the neighbor and seeks a scapegoat. Olivia walked towards the investigation headquarters, ignoring the terrible execution scene and the angry crowd. "What are the Lebaina royal family and the Divine Sect doing?" "...." I couldn't say anything. "Are they doing this on purpose?" The royal family and the sect did not do nothing. They may have even condoned this situation. They could say that they were not followers of the Masin religion, but just ordinary people. The crowd may or may not believe it. But if the sacrificial lamb is not executed, the angry anger and fear will not subside. In fact, whether they are followers of the Masin religion or not, anger subsides only temporarily when they die. If the angry crowd becomes a mob, there will be tremendous confusion. Releasing those who are suspected of being followers of the Masin religion will only further fuel the anger of the crowd. They killed innocent people to control the situation. Olivia read that situation. It is not important to get to the bottom of it. Already, the indiscriminate violence of the crowd engulfed in fear after the demon king's attack was certain to play a decisive role in making Olivia hate humans. "Are you going to leave it like this?" Olivia asked Scottra Keltan, the head of the investigation bureau, when she returned to the special investigation bureau. The middle-aged knight with a calm expression seemed to understand what Olivia was saying. "Miss Olivia, you know what you're talking about." "I know this can be interference in internal affairs, and I know that the investigation bureau does not have such authority. But still... this kind of thing..." Olivia did not become a person who agreed to kill indiscriminately, no matter how much she felt disillusioned with humans. "I am aware that if we leave this situation as it is, it could escalate into a large-scale riot and turn into indiscriminate hunting of the heretics. However, the Special Investigation Bureau came here for the purpose of investigating the truth about the demon king's attack, not to influence the internal affairs of the Leveina Kingdom. We cannot do anything beyond that." "Rather than resenting his cold conclusion, Olivia seemed lost because she couldn't find an answer herself. 'Of course, I don't have the authority to interfere with internal affairs, but there is one person who has the authority to do so...'" Translation:

Although she was just a victim who knew nothing, it was terrible that the Levaina royal family and the Odae religious sect were sacrificing innocent victims to stabilize the situation. Even though they knew it was impossible, the crowd replaced their fear with anger and searched for a sacrificial lamb. "Hell wasn't somewhere else." Olivia muttered with a gloomy expression while standing by the window, listening to the distant screams of people. During the time when the demon world existed, fights took place in a specific area called the demon world. Therefore, fights, battles, bloodshed, and slaughter only existed in that place. However, now that the demon world has disappeared, demons can infiltrate the human world and suddenly appear and disappear from anywhere. Therefore, people were going crazy with fear of the intangible enemy and the fear that they might be living and breathing nearby. So, they tried to find enemies disguised as humans since they couldn't find enemies disguised as demons, and that was the demon-worshiping cult. But even the demon-worshiping cult was not present here, so they only suspected and hated each other. "What are we going to do, Reinhardt?" At this point, I am the only one who can approach the Levaina royal family with less noise. Even if I report this to the royal family, the reaction of the chief knight of Shanafeil, who is a knight of the Shanafeil, would be to leave it alone. Whether it's Charlotte, the emperor, or Berthus, they will undoubtedly say to leave it alone. What am I? Even if I say that this person is not a demon-worshiper to those who are looking for a sacrificial lamb, they will not believe it, and even if they do, they will eventually try to relieve their anger in a different way. There may be a way to ban private religious sects and control residents by issuing martial law. But if the angry crowd riots, it will cause an even greater disaster. If the riot overthrows the royal family, it could be a disaster, and if the crowd is beaten to suppress the riot, it is also a disaster. It's a tragic thing. Scottra Keltan's words that the best way to see less bloodshed is for innocent people to die quietly were not wrong. "I don't know how to solve it without seeing bloodshed unless there are real demon-worshipers who are caught or unless the demon king dies for real." Do I have any sharp ideas? I'm not particularly a genius, and politics is not my field either. Even if I meet the Levaina king and do something off-topic, what am I going to say? There's no way I have any sharp ideas. Olivia stood by the window, looking down at the street quietly. She came to hate humans, but she couldn't look at innocent people dying calmly. Isn't her nature disappearing somewhere in the end? "This is what happens when people are consumed by despair..." There was no certainty that the demon king would come back, and the actual damage was not that great. However, fear spreads among people regardless of reality. The fear of the demon king spreads among people and becomes a new religion called the demon-worshiping cult. People are trying to find enemies disguised as humans since they cannot find enemies disguised as demons, and that is the demon-worshiping cult. Even the disappearance of the demon world has caused fear among people as demons can now infiltrate the human world. Olivia is frustrated as she does not have any sharp ideas to solve the situation. The fear among people is spreading regardless of reality, and there is no certainty that the demon king will come back. "We were caught off guard by the emergence of a new religion that worships Lagan Artorius, called the demon-worshiping cult, as it was completely unexpected despite the existence of demon hunting and other similar incidents."