"Ah uh..." Keqier stared at the Demon Duke. Yi Cha also stared back, with a relatively matter-of-fact expression, and casually turned the pages of the report. After a while, they all laughed.
"Really evil."
Keqier finally stopped laughing and straightened his face - and within two seconds he started giggling again. "You know? There is a kind of morality called: Don't give other people things you don't want. Ah. Sorry, sorry. You must not know. Because you are a devil. Ha." The angel rubbed his face hard and finally allowed himself to smile. The level decreased, from a full smile to a cheerful smile. "But you went even further. You just gave them what they didn't want. The undead were originally very satisfied with their own situation. This is great..."
Ke Qier realized that he was gloating too much and coughed hastily. "They have to accept a new life. Which means living."
Yi Cha supported his chin. "Why not? Isn't it good to be alive?"
"You know what you're asking," Ke Qier said. Through empathy. Of course, he himself felt that what Yi Cha said was simply the truth, so the real fact became obvious - the Demon Duke was committing satire again. But the same as before. The angel still pretended not to hear and explained:
"You made them lose everything. The convenience, peace, and existence time that death brings, the infinite patience and infinite tolerance that come with it. And most importantly," he forced himself to straighten his expression. "Equality. Equality brought about by being under the shelter of death. A tacit understanding of division of labor and cooperation because of a common enemy. You make all this disappear. Replaced by survival, life, and the trouble of life.
They have to digest stuff - well, 'consume', to use their word. Which means they have to ingest it - it must be torture the first few times..."
"You forgot to breathe." Yi Cha reminded with a smile.
"Breathe!" Angel's smile fell to the ground and he screamed. "I can't even imagine!! How much torture it would be if we had to breathe all the time!!!"
"I can just imagine it. It's big. Very big."
Yi Cha changed his tone. Come to life:
"Every 0.3 seconds. You have to take the mixed gas from the outside into your chest. You can't do any protection, and it must be real-time. You have to spend your own energy to extract useful substances from these gases—— There are many useful substances, but your extraction efficiency is too low. You can only extract a little each time. And even if these useful substances are extracted, they cannot be stored at all. You can’t use them even if you want to keep some. The most terrifying thing is that, After 0.3 seconds, you have to expel all the remaining parts. If you don't do this in time, you will suffer extreme pain. In other words, you have to fight every moment to avoid death and satiation. Suffer the torture and work hard. Every moment. If you stop for a moment, the beast of pain will catch up and strangle you tightly. Every minute, every second. Even when you are resting."
The angel listened. It didn't take long for fear to creep up on his forehead, making him completely forget to grab the unit to check for vulnerabilities. As the Demon Duke's description goes further (the topic changes from breathing to eating. Real eating. The demon knows it very well and can add to it freely, while the angel can only listen to the increasingly exaggerated content with a dull look on his face), sympathy replaces Fear gradually rose to his cheeks, driving away any remaining relief.
Icha finally finished speaking. Ke Qier was stunned for a long time (as if he had just eaten, drank enough water, and sucked in air). After a while, he let out a long sigh.
"I think it might take them a long time to adapt. Maybe they won't be able to adapt at all." It took him a long time to say.
"It's really a heinous crime. Let these lovely guys endure such suffering. Suffer for eternity. Well. From the perspective of crime and punishment, a new version of the report can be drafted." Yi Cha continued fluently. He couldn't hide his pride.
Ke Qier looked at the report page flipping in his hand and suddenly realized. "Ah - you are doing it for -"
"That's right." Yi Cha said. This is also the reason why he really wants to write the report, although it is not over yet. This action reminded him of the easy life before.
Did he mention it? He liked everything about the operation. Including the aspect that comes from the devil's nature, the aspect that comes from himself, and the aspect that is for Wei Xing Qimen. It has to be said that he has made achievements in every aspect worth mentioning. He revised this report twenty-two times. It was not just a waste of time, but a real waste of time - even if this thing was to be done, it would have to be ranked behind more than ten things that were ten times more urgent. But wasting time when it absolutely shouldn't be wasting time made him genuinely happy.
Yi Cha lowered his head to read the report and began to consider every word for the twenty-third time. Um. He is still not satisfied with the current version. If he is not satisfied, then he is not satisfied...
"Don't be like this. I'm really starting to feel something is wrong." Ke Qier whispered. "Of course it's good to be alive, right? Resurrection is better than death. Even if they have to perform such terrible things over and over again...it's still part of them, right? A part of material beings...and they are originally alive. This It is the price that must be paid for resurrection. Of course life is better than death - although not in every aspect. They should be able to get used to it!! Get used to it!! Just get used to it." He seemed to persuade himself, and murmured in a low voice . "This can't be all bad..."
"Why not?"
Yi Cha laughed. "It was really possible for them to create a high-quality, advanced country. Hmm. Maybe the world."
"How can that be a good world! There are only the dead, no living people. Of course that is not good... It is good to save the undead from the hands of death. Uh..."
"Really?" Yi Cha put down the report and looked at the angel. "Why do you think that's not good? Because you are used to using 'good' to mean 'more correct'. And you are a member of the living?"
"otherwise……"
"I visited many of their places and met many of their members with my own eyes. To be honest, their ideals are very meaningful, and they have no shortage of means and action to achieve them. There is nothing 'bad' about that." Icha maintained smile. "I think it's a pity."
Ke Qier thought for a few seconds.
"If you think so," he said. Sitting upright on a chair, he took the report pages, sorted them into a pile, and pushed them in front of the devil. "That's it. Good is bad. Bad is good. There is no better or worse in life or death. The same goes for order and chaos. But you can't be on each side. You can only be on one or the other."
to check on him for a while.
"Remarkable," he said. "Just write it like you said. You'll definitely get extra points."
(End of chapter)
