Many years ago, Liz once said to Hesta that justice is never late. If she is late one day, it must be because no one is willing to pave the way for her with sweat and blood.
Hestad never forgot these words.
But the question is, what is justice? Who defines justice? When justice defined by one person conflicts with justice defined by a group of people, whose justice is closer to justice?
The scene today is not much different from what happened at the base back then. Regarding the crimes committed by Roger, every bystander who has nothing to do with them claims that there is a more civilized solution than tit for tat. This method is not only It can give justice to the dead and dignity to the living, and it can prevent all suffering from happening at the source.
All this reminded Hestad of the question she asked Sean: Why are the reasons why we help victims loose their bonds always used by perpetrators as an excuse to escape guilt?
That’s when Sean responded: Who defines “victim”? Whoever has the power to define owns everything.
No wonder Miss Chiba defined Sean as a geek from the beginning. He had already figured out the rules of the livable land when he was fourteen years old.
Experts and scholars analyzed Roger's childhood and reconstructed his deep personality image, but in the process, they changed Roger from an undisputed "perpetrator" to a "victim in another dimension"—— He is equally innocent, and he also has no choice. His fate is like a sad aria. All people with conscience should stand together and eliminate this tragic fate together, instead of insisting on eliminating this person.
But for Hesta, these noises did not cause her any trouble, because she did not care that "the death penalty lacks a deterrent effect on potential criminals and therefore does not help public security", nor did she care that "the death penalty is the most cruel the penal system, which detracts from the splendor of civilization”;
She was raised by two devout nuns, but she never really devoted herself to any religion, nor did she expect that an omniscient and omnipotent God would bring justice to her at the end of her life, let alone spend her whole life in panic after killing her enemies. , doubting whether he has surpassed others and performed the duties of a god as a mortal.
Hesta only cares about one thing: when will the hatred that has been boiling in her heart for the past four years be extinguished with Roger's blood?
Hesta is not the only one who shares the same belief.
In the 13th month after Roger was imprisoned, Rico planned the first assassination operation-according to the prison law of the Third District, prisoners can get a 7-day "relatives and friends bail period" for every 180 days of detention. The original intention of setting up this law is to allow prisoners time to return to their families and friends, so that they can feel the warmth of society and better reflect on the crimes they have committed.
Roger plans to take advantage of the two-week vacation to go to the artificial coast south of Ulian, where there is his favorite old castle. During this year-long incarceration, he complained more than once that the shackles in the prison were too heavy and made his wrists uncomfortable. In addition, he had less than 4 hours of outdoor activities every day. He felt that during this year, He "became a little sluggish" and "urgently needed a beach party full of beautiful beauties to wake up again."
What Rico had to do was very simple. She didn't have to lurk or disguise. After determining the specific time and place of the reception, she came to Ulian in the name of vacation and entered the bullet 23 kilometers away from the winery that night. About 190 seconds later, she appeared in front of Roger like a demon falling from the sky, with endless hatred and ferocity.
In order to let Roger experience more pain before his death, Rico did not immediately cut off his head - this may be the only mistake she made that night. Because after Rico stabbed Roger's lungs with a knife, another mercury needle patrolling the area also arrived at the scene.
Generally speaking, it is extremely serious for an active mercury needle to enter bullet time without prior notification (and be in a habitable zone) - this means that the mercury needle may have found chelicerates in a habitable zone. compound, and fighting has begun.
In this case, the nearby mercury needle workstation will respond immediately and provide the coordinates to the five non-combat mercury needles closest to the combat location. At the moment the information is received, no matter what these mercury needles are doing, they Everyone must stop what they are doing and go to the fighting site to provide support.
Ironically, this is exactly the outstanding achievement that Liz has left in Ulian over the years: a complete Ulian-Keqin-Zhelisa southern defense line. New signal towers erected on hillsides and roadsides intersect with each other to form a huge information network. Based on them, the headquarters can accurately determine the location coordinates of the mercury needle in habitable areas to the centimeter level.
Soon, Mercury Needle, who came following the alarm, realized that there was no chelate on this beach, but another Mercury Needle, Rico, who was relying on his ability to torture and kill a civilian on bail.
He soon joined the fight to stop Rico's atrocities.
A few minutes later, more and more mercury needles arrived at the scene, and Rico was outnumbered. In the end, he could only watch a helicopter leave from the apron in the back garden of the winery - and the seriously injured Roger survived again. .
A month later, Rico went to the AHgAs internal court. In front of the coalition government's special inspector, she broke the "Third District Freedom Merit Medal" awarded to her by the coalition government a few years ago on the spot. The elderly inspector He was so angry that he even asked AHgAs to hand over Rico to the Third District Special Military Court for trial by the Third District military.
Of course, AHgAs would not pay attention to this kind of nonsense request. After some hard work, AHgAs finally decided to respect the opinion of the Third District Court to a certain extent and made a "permanent deportation" to Rico - unless, she I am willing to write a letter of self-reflection and reflect deeply on how absurd my behavior is.
After all, she had such an outstanding combat experience, and was relatively familiar with the border and wasteland of the habitable area of District 3. If there was room for return, no one would want to lose such a warrior.
But Rico refused. She packed her luggage and took a boat to District 12 the second week after the verdict was handed down, continuing to perform her duties as a mercury needle.
This lesson shocked Hesta greatly - because she had originally targeted Roger's vacation, but her newly upgraded right arm had inexplicably many adaptability problems, which forced her to give up this opportunity temporarily. Waiting for the next opportunity.
However, in hindsight, it is impossible for her to complete a true revenge as long as her right arm is still embedded with the AHgAs chip.
Shortly after the failed assassination in Rico, Roger completely disappeared from the public eye - the Third District hid him in order to protect the criminal's most basic right to life.
At the same time, the order officer of the base came to talk to Hesta in person. During the conversation, Hesta felt that the other party seemed to be testing her attitude towards this matter. She thought for a moment and criticized Rico's revenge behavior. Afterwards, he deeply expressed his regret for Rico's departure from the third district.
During that time, the base intentionally reduced her exposure to outside commentary, Hestad could sense it, but she said nothing.
Perhaps before that last conversation with Liz, she did establish a brief trust in the base, but after Rico's failed assassination operation, these trusts have collapsed and no longer exist.
