"...Yes?"
Evil is something that should never be saved…
The girl's eyes began to widen, as if she didn't understand what he was saying.
However, the Transcendent did not reprimand the ignorant girl.
Simply being ignorant is never a sin.
"You should have only learned that justice is what is right. Regardless of the reason,
you must firmly believe that you need to blindly believe in what everyone calls justice and live."
He was just teaching her.
Just like the hand that was indifferently lowered to the ground,
he gently caressed the girl's face with his small, delicate hand.
"But at least the justice that I understood was not just straightforward.
It was something closer to a symbol of human imperfection, created by excluding things that one cannot accept."
"What do you mean? This is…"
"If you try to carry something that you cannot bear, you will end up collapsing."
"..."
"...Nella."
The transcendent called the girl's name again.
"As you said, among those who are doing things there now, there must be some who have joined us, complaining about injustice, just like the one whose throat was slit by your father."
The affectionate tone in that voice was not much different from what I had seen before.
The person in front of me was still Moa Bred.
Even at that moment, unlike herself who was gradually disintegrating, she still maintained her own heart.
"There may be reasons for those who harm others and break the law.
Or there may be those who were faithful to the law but were not rewarded due to someone's malice and fell miserably into the abyss.
And you may think that the society that excludes such people is incompetent and wrong.
It is understandable to feel sorry for them and think that perhaps what your father is doing is wrong."
The cruel truth she teaches with such a calm face slowly begins to touch the heart of the girl who is simply ignorant.
She does not have the knowledge or experience to understand all of this.
"But the world has no obligation to care for individuals."
Even so, you can feel that every word that comes out of her mouth is engraved in your mind.
"Even though the civilization that has settled on this Earth has been established over a long period of time, it is the same. Even if the social system is perfectly constructed, mistakes are bound to occur unless those who use it understand, remember, and use it perfectly..."
A society can only be maintained if it tolerates such mistakes and excludes the irregularities created by them.
"As the number of people who cannot be included and are excluded increases in this way, conflicts cannot cease in this world."
The separation between good and evil that divides before justice in a huge society.
It is a fate that all humans are born with, because humans are imperfect beings.
"That is why those who are born as humans must make a choice. Will they live by giving up something in order to save something? Or will they despair at the reality that they cannot include everyone and turn their backs on them..."
Yes, because the world does not care about individuals.
Therefore, you should never sympathize with someone who has given up on conformity. Those who have given up on conformity should never be understood by them.
Their lamentations about this cruel world will only result in more despair in the face of a reality that will never change.
"That is why those who live in conformity with society should never seek salvation from evil."
The backlight falls on the girl who is saying this conclusion.
The shadowed face is not clearly visible, but even so, Nella cannot take her eyes off that face.
"That is why those who have betrayed society... should never expect anyone to understand them."
You just can't see it with your eyes.
The moment you look at that face, you feel something pulling you from the depths of your heart.
This must be what you call empathy.
That hidden face, that face that had been so calm until then, had a glimpse of human emotions...
Yes, at that moment, the girl held her understanding in her mouth.
She sympathized with the "sadness" of the transcendent being who had not yet completely understood humanity, but had realized a part of it.
- Kkundangtang!
But why did she feel such emotions?
This cruel world didn't even give her time to find the answer.
"Hahahaha! Right, I knew it!!"
The door of the Ferris wheel was suddenly ripped off.
With that, the space between the two was pulled back to reality, and their gazes began to turn towards the entrance.
The one who ripped off the door was a being with steel wings on its back. The gas mask with the shape of a crow written on the face was an item considered a symbol of a villain in the news.
"Dead Sky Villain".
A class villain who uses the sky as a stage to commit evil acts.
"Prey found~"
The moment the light under the gas mask shines, a "Boom!" sound echoes.
The bomb attached to the Ferris wheel detonates, and immediately after, the Ferris wheel's structure begins to shake violently.
"Oh, no!"
A body slips down the suddenly created ramp.
Nella screams and begins to reach out toward Moa, who is falling through the torn door.
She barely manages to grab onto the crack in the door and catch her falling body.
However, the weight falling on her body at that moment is too much for a young girl to bear.
"…You are doing something very reckless."
The transcendent being who noticed the situation spoke coldly to the girl.
This girl is so weak. No matter how small her body has become, it would be impossible to support this frail body.
"Let go of my hand."
"You can't do this!!"
Even so, the girl did not let go of her hand.
Thinking about it, it would be natural to let go here.
"If we continue like this, we'll both fall."
"I don't want to let go. Please, please don't say that."
She let go of her hand right in the crack in the door that was supposed to support her body, and tried to pull it with both hands.
But her balance was precarious.
As soon as the Ferris wheel tilted, it showed no signs of returning to its original state, and, on the contrary, the more she resisted, the more she trembled... ... .
"For the first time..."
Even so, the girl didn't let go of her hand.
No, she cried.
"You're the first friend I've made..."
The conflict that arose because she had to become an adult so quickly.
In a society that worships heroes, the doubts that arose could not be shared with anyone, so someone who taught me the answer to the loneliness that I had experienced so alone
appeared.
Yes, that person could hug me even like that.
I didn't understand all those words, but wasn't that something I could learn little by little?
"Please... Please help me!! Anyone is fine, please... Please save my friend!!"
But all that desperate and weak girl could do was cry.
"I don't like this!!"
Hoping that someone would come see me with my current scream.
Hoping that my current crying would win the sympathy of those with bad intentions.
"This is truly a friendship that makes one cry."
But ironically...
Those who now extend their bad intentions to them are already as twisted as they can be.
Even if there is no such thing as unreasonable evil, even if they got involved in an affair due to unavoidable circumstances, those who have given up on being considered are those who have forgotten to even consider others.
"But this old man is someone who really likes to interfere in these things. If I shoot him here, he'll feel really bad…!"
The moment such malicious intent spreads into incomprehensible madness, hesitation gradually begins to grow on the tips of her tightly clenched hands.
It's simply painful, frightening, and confusing.
All it could be was the endless wish for all these moments to end.
"Don't worry."
But the Transcendent still tried to console even that girl.
Nella's soft voice brought her back to her senses.
What entered her blurred vision was the affectionate smile she always showed.
"Even if you let go of this hand, our fate will never end…"
Yes, even if she fell from there, she wouldn't die.
Even though she had become weaker after the war that day, her strength hadn't completely disappeared.
If she used the power given to her by the one who had given her the "revelation", it would be possible to escape from this place.
Of course… ….
Of course, if she used this power, the time until she could achieve the revelation would be longer, but at least she could avoid the crisis for now.
"Then it's fine."
Unlike before, she now has a reason to live.
Remembering this, he immediately tried to move his raised hand to exert his power.
- Kwaaang!!
Something flying from the ground came into the scene and hit the body of the monster who was aiming the gun,
pushing him out of his seat.
The monster's body staggered in shock.
Immediately after, his gaze turned to something stuck in his body.
"What, what is this? What is this…"
"This bastard."
A tyrannical voice.
With that, the afterimage returned to its original form, and only then did Dead Sky
see the figure of the one who grabbed him by the collar.
A ridiculous figure wearing a bread bag on his head.
However, in the eyes that stared at him from within, he could feel an extreme killing intent that he had never seen before.
"Who are you extending your filthy hands to now..."
What the hell.
Who is this guy, suddenly flying into his own territory, the sky, and threatening him?
"Damn it!!"
Unable to bear that spirit, Dead Sky began to activate the devices on his own body.
The barrels appeared as his chest split open.
The weapon was built using a body modification gift, and if the bullets were loaded with superpower, they could destroy a defense shield made of superpower.
-Tutatatatata!
However, the man hit by the attack was not repelled.
Even though he was a rag in front of him, he displayed his power and swung his fists with all his strength, holding himself to his body.
As the fists struck him repeatedly in that state, a "creaking" friction sound echoed throughout Death Sky's body.
At the moment the delicate mechanical devices embedded in his body were damaged by the shock just now.
"Hey, crazy kid!! If this continues, we'll both fall… Kkaaaak!"
"If you're going to fall, then fall!"
Before he could fix the broken flying machine, the man hanging on his body kicked him away.
Death Sky fell in a parabolic arc.
However, the man's attention had already shifted from that point.
"Boss!!"
100 meters above the ground.
The fierce leap he made was aimed straight at the girl who was falling helplessly
because he had lost all his strength.
-Kuung!
The man who had flown grabbed the girl's body and threw it against the support beam of the Ferris wheel.
Immediately after, the body fell due to the recoil and gravity.
He grabbed the support beam with his arm before falling, but
the man's arm was too weak to withstand the pressure.
-Crack. Crushing.
The arm bent back and spurted blood.
The man who had been enduring the excruciating pain with his teeth clenched finally released the strength in his hand and jumped forward.
Towards the Ferris wheel on the lower floor, which had not yet fallen due to the continuous bombardment.
-Clang!
The glass shattered and his body bounced several times in a small space due to the recoil,
and finally stopped moving after leaning against the wall.
"Boss."
Wasn't the shock light?
The man who had struggled to sit up looked at his master in his arms.
The girl who was nestled in his arms.
A smile of relief appeared on the man's lips when he confirmed that there was not a single wound on the face in front of him.
"Thank God you're safe..."
Was that enough?
Soon, the man's head fell to the ground and his body began to sag as if he had lost consciousness.
The girl in his arms looked at the man after some time.
"...Bred."
Luckily, he was still breathing, but there was not a single part of his body intact.
Not only his broken arm, but also his bullet-riddled body… ….
No, before this, weren't all the muscles in his body crushed or damaged?
"What a reckless thing to do."
He didn't have the ability to jump off the ground at this height.
The girl who had become the man's master looked out from the Ferris wheel for a moment to take in the situation.
The heroes who had belatedly rushed over to take care of the situation. As they and the villains fought, there was one person who stood out in particular.
A woman wearing pink clothes…
From the way she single-handedly dealt with the troops below, I could feel the strength of the "executives" who served her.
Did he feel impatient and order her to throw her body at him with all her strength?
Of course, since he was able to jump 100 meters in one go, the force applied to his body must have been considerable.
"I am just like you, a mere speck of dust in this universe... Why are you trying so hard to protect this tiny body?"
He felt his hands caressing the wounds on his body gradually tremble.
He simply would not die.
She was furious that she had acted so recklessly to save herself with such a fragile body.
"Still..."
But wasn't it also because he was thinking of himself?
"Still, I will forgive you for scolding me just now."
The monarch, who noticed such feelings from the wounds on his body, finally reached his hand to his head and began to pull it towards his knees.
She took the sack off her head and stroked the head of the person who was sleeping soundly.
"Thank you for coming, my..."
That's right.
Then she whispered in his ear.
Without even a plausible story.
To the ears of a man who wanted to save himself and was born as an evil being.
"You are the only hero who saved me."
Since that day.
Infinite gratitude to the companion who swore to spend the rest of his life with me.