The Demon Prince goes to the Academy - Chapter 399
Chapter 399
There were people suspected of demonic religion.
The crowd was outraged and the guards were blocking the angry crowd, telling them not to impose private sanctions on them.
What happened during the three hours we were gone. They were all executed.
This happened not in a rural village, but in the capital of a country no matter how small it was, and in a plaza with a warp gate.
Those who were accused of being demonists died, and the angry mob was screaming that even the dead bodies should be burned.
I don’t know if the Heretic Inquisitor arrived and immediately branded them as heretics and executed them, or if the guards came forward and hung them up.
However, this execution, which proceeded too quickly, could not have been carried out properly.
“it’s crazy… … . all people… … .”
I thought something terrible would happen, but I didn’t know that it would kill people without a proper trial, so Olivia seemed to feel fear beyond disgust and contempt.
Fear resembles anger.
That’s why the fear of the demon king turns into anger against the neighbors and goes looking for a scapegoat.
Olivia walked towards the investigation headquarters, ignoring the horrible execution site and the angry crowd.
“What the hell are Levi, the royal family, and the religious order doing?”
“… … .”
I couldn’t say anything.
“Are you doing this on purpose?”
The royal family and the church did not do anything. Rather, it is possible that this situation was encouraged.
You could say that they are not demonists, but ordinary people. The crowd may or may not believe it.
But unless the scapegoat is executed, the raging rage and fear will not subside. In fact, only when they die, whether they are demonists or not, the anger subsides temporarily.
The scapegoat was executed unusually quickly to get the crowd intoxicated that something had been resolved.
When angry mobs become rioters, great chaos will ensue. The act of freeing those whom people suspect are demonists only in itself increases the anger of the crowd.
In order to control the situation, innocent people were killed.
Olivia read that situation.
Getting to the truth is not important.
It was clear that this purposeless violence of the crowd, already engulfed in fear after the demon lord’s attack, would play a decisive role in Olivia’s hatred of humans.
* * *
“Are you going to leave this as it is?”
Back at the Special Investigations Headquarters, Olivia asked Scotra Kelton, the head of the Investigations Division, that.
The middle-aged knight with a calm expression seemed to fully understand what Olivia was talking about.
“Miss Olivia knows what she is talking about.”
“I know that this can be interference in internal affairs and that the investigative headquarters does not have such authority. still… … . This… … .”
No matter how disillusioned Olivia is with humans, she hasn’t become the kind of person who agrees to kill casually.
“I am aware that this situation, if left unchecked, could lead to mass riots and indiscriminate hunting of cultists. The Special Investigation Headquarters came here not to influence the internal affairs of the Levina Kingdom, but to investigate the truth about the demon attack. I can’t do anything else.”
Olivia is no fool. Of course you know what Kelton is talking about.
However, I witnessed the scene of madness in which a heresy trial happened in an instant and a person was hanged, and I know that this trend could continue for a while or develop into a riot, but it is frustrating not to take any action.
However, the special edition must be operated according to the purpose, and what is happening in Lazierne is obviously outside of work.
That’s why Olivia knows that she’s talking too much to Scotra Kelton.
But I can’t just leave this situation alone.
Olivia still has humanity to the point of thinking that way.
“Of course, if only Levina could express a few words of concern about this situation without special authority, it could have a significant impact.”
The 3rd division commander of Shanafell. Already in itself, being the king of a small local country was a good position. Even now, he receives orders from the Empire and is in charge of field command. It was an interference in internal affairs, but it was an attitude that there was nothing that could be done.
“However, the act itself could interfere with the internal affairs of a country that already has sovereignty. That’s why it’s not Levina that’s important.”
“Other vassals… … . Are you talking?”
“yes.”
To the extent of Leviathan, he can interfere in internal affairs. However, it can be very uncomfortable for other emirates to know that you interfered in the internal affairs of the emirate. Even if it is the sovereignty of a small country, it is an infringement on the sovereignty of a vassal state.
All countries are part of an empire, but in the end an empire is a union of many countries. There are places where the empire, including the imperial capital, is self-governing, but the vassal states have their own laws and sovereignty.
Even in this case, the imperial investigators who came to investigate the case were acting inconsistent with the purpose of interfering in internal affairs.
It was Scotra Kelton’s position that there were too many conditions to be contested, and that no matter how difficult the situation was, they couldn’t step forward, and Olivia and I could not help but understand that.
“Also, I don’t think this approach is too bad. Bringing the truth to an angry mob only makes them more angry. A few innocent people will die. It will be quiet soon.”
Scotra Kelton speaks in passing, rolling the pen as she reads the report and makes a mark somewhere.
That’s right.
You have to tell those who are looking for a scapegoat that the scapegoat is innocent, only to find another scapegoat or get more angry. Anger, even if the cause is wrong, must be resolved.
Will a riot break out and lead to chaos or find a scapegoat and kill a few to find stability?
Levi, the royal family, and the Church only chose the lesser evil. Olivia was staring at Scotra Kelton, who was indifferently rolling the pen with a puzzled look on her face.
Rather than resenting his cold conclusion, Olivia herself seemed devastated because she couldn’t find an answer.
“Of course, there is one person who does not have the authority, but who has the authority to interfere in internal affairs… … .”
he stares blankly at me
“Reinhard-kun.”
“… … yes.”
“If you insist that you have come here as a representative of the imperial family, then you can discuss appropriate measures with Levi or the royal family.”
“… … You said it was meddling in my affairs?”
“I said this under the premise that you have a plan to handle it. I have no intention of handling it, but Reinhard-kun may have a different opinion. Isn’t Reinhard-kun under my command?”
He himself is a knight, but I am a semi-royal family with the imperial crest.
If the head of the investigation headquarters talks about Levi or the royal family, he is doing something that does not correspond to the purpose of the investigation, but it is said that it is possible for the agent of the imperial family to contact and talk with the royal family. Of course, that would be interference in internal affairs, but I could talk to Levi or the royal family as much as I wanted.
However, in that case, not only I but also the imperial family would have to take responsibility for everything that happened because of my reckless talking.
The imperial family’s coat of arms wasn’t simply a ticket to use the warp gate.
I also understood why this was never given to anyone carelessly.
Why did Tana send me here?
Now I have some sense.
Did he mean to try to stabilize the chaotic situation in Levina?
His life was not in danger, but if he succeeded in this, it would be a sufficient achievement.
It may not even be a solution. Maybe I’m trying to find out how I react in the face of such a big problem, not a trivial one.
But how?
no.
By the way, these bastards of the Empire are getting a little pissed off?
If you think about it, after causing terrorism in a small southern country, you say I don’t know about the aftermath, right?
Isn’t it a situation where the demon king is framed and told me, the demon king, to clean up the shit?
* * *
People in Levi and Lazierne, the capital city, were going crazy due to the aftermath of the demon lord attack, that is, the fear of the demon lord.
The result is leading to the method of finding out the Demonic Cult. Of course, most of the innocent people who are actually hunted out and killed are innocent people who have nothing to do with the demon cultists.
Even the royal family and churches who knew that they were innocent seemed to deliberately sacrifice those innocent people in order to calm the angry public.
In the first place, the Demon King never intervened in this place.
In the end, the reason why the empire drove the revolutionary forces into the small southern country and killed it was also because Levia was a small country. Even the investigative headquarters will be thinking of disguising the case, and they say they don’t know about the aftermath of the incident, saying that it could interfere with internal affairs.
It is an old truth of public interest that the terrible things the ruling class do is immeasurable. It was even more terrifying now that it touched my skin.
The empire that has caused this situation and is sitting on its hands is terrible.
The victims who don’t know anything, but in the end, Levi, the royal family, and the Church of the Five Great Gods, who try to stabilize the situation by hanging innocent victims, are terrible.
If you think about it properly, the crowd who knows that it can’t be, but replaces fear with anger and searches for a scapegoat, is also terrible.
“Hell was nowhere else.”
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Standing by the window, Olivia muttered with a grim expression as she listened to the clamor of people in the distance.
In the days when the Demon Realm existed, fights took place in a specific area called the Demon Realm. That is why fights, battles, blood and slaughter were only in that place.
However, now that the Demon World has disappeared, demons can infiltrate the world of humans and suddenly appear and disappear somewhere.
So people were going mad for fear of a disembodied enemy, for fear that they might be living and breathing near them.
So, since they couldn’t find an enemy in the form of a demon, they tried to find an enemy in the form of a human inside, and that was the demon cult. However, since not even the Magicians were here, they only doubted each other and hated each other.
“What are you going to do, Reinhardt?”
At this point, I’m the only one who can make less noise and approach Levi or the royal family. It was okay to report this to the imperial family, but the reaction was that the head of headquarters, a knight of Shanafell, could just leave it alone.
Whether it’s Charlotte, the Emperor, or Bertus, if they hear about this, they’re sure to say ‘Leave it alone’.
what am i different
If you tell those who are looking for a scapegoat that this person is not a magician, people will not believe it, and even if they believe it, they will eventually try to relieve their anger in other ways.
There may be a way to ban the search for private heretics and to control the residents by issuing martial law or something.
But if the angry mob then riots, it will cause even greater disaster. A riot can overthrow the royal family, and if the crowd is beaten up to quell the riot, that is catastrophic.
It’s a miserable thing.
Scotra Kelton wasn’t wrong when she said that the least bloodshed would be to keep things quiet as innocent people died.
“Unless there are real demonists and they get caught or the demon king dies… … . I don’t know how to solve it without seeing the blood.”
Can I be sharp? I’m not particularly a genius, and politics isn’t my field either.
Even if I met Levi or the king and did something presumptuous, what would he say? There’s no such thing as a sharp number.
Olivia was standing by the window, quietly looking down the street.
She came to hate humans, but in the end, she couldn’t calmly watch innocent people die. Isn’t that nature eventually disappearing somewhere?
“This is what people become when they are consumed by despair… … .”
It wasn’t even certain that the demon king would come again, but in reality the damage wasn’t that great.
However, fear spreads among people independently of reality.
The fear of the name of the devil is talked about and reproduced among people, and inflates its insubstantial size.
It’s just that it’s not called that name after all, but it’s different from faith. Just as people who don’t know about God say what God is and establish it as a common concept.
A belief called the Demon King is being created among people.
None of what they say resembles me, but people add flesh to the unclear reality of the devil and mold it into a form of fear.
A new faith called the Demon King, which creates only fear and despair with faith.
-Find the demonists!
It will be rising all over the continent now.
Lazierne is just too much, and since you can’t find demons all over the continent, people will try to find enemy demonists in human form.
This is just the beginning.
A large-scale search and hunt for demonic cults will begin.
– Trust Artorius!
-The warrior will be resurrected and defeat the demon king!
And the words I heard out of nowhere.
Olivia looked out the window and tilted her head in my direction.
“… … ?”
“… … ?”
What did I hear?
-The warrior Artorius will protect us!
“You didn’t hear me wrong, did you? I think you said Artorius?”
“huh… … . that… … . I guess?”
no.
What kind of nonsense bullshit is this?
* * *
I thought it was possible for people to shout about finding out the Demonic Cult, but Olivia and I ended up hearing even more out of the blue.
Do you trust Artorius?
Olivia and I immediately ran out into the street and caught the screamer.
“hey.”
“Artorias will save us… … !”
The person who shouted such a bizarre thing was an old man from Wenchoro.
“What is it?”
“What are you talking about? Trust Artorius.”
“I hope you too believe in the hero and be saved… … ! There is absolutely no need to be afraid of demon lords!”
He shouted powerfully with an expression full of faith and faith. Olivia was perplexed, and so was I.
“No, Artorius is… … . Fighting the Demon King… … . Are you dead?”
He shook his head at my stuttering words.
“Ugh! What a young man does not know what to say! Lord Artorius did not die, but ascended to heaven! He accomplished the great feat of defeating the demon king and became a god of war… … ! Yes, you have risen to the ranks of the godless! But since the Demon King has returned, wouldn’t it be natural for Artorias to return to complete the unfinished mission!!”
no.
“You too believe in the hero and wait for the coming salvation… … !”
What the hell kind of dog is this?
The old man walked away from the bewildered us and started shouting loudly.
– Trust Artorius!
-The time of salvation is coming!
-The warrior will return! Do not be afraid!
Olivia and I met eyes while staring blankly at the back of the old man who was moving away.
“What is the cult of warriors?”
“How do I know… … .”
The Demonic Church hunting and these parts still existed within the scope of the accident.
The emergence of a new religion that worships Lagan Artorius was completely unexpected, and we couldn’t help but be dazzled.