I remembered - everything I had seen at that time.

It was a war-torn era.

The most effective way to combat hostile forces is not a large-scale war, let alone a victory.

The only thing that can really be effective against the other side is assassination - if the leader is killed, the warlord's subordinates will inevitably fall into chaos, and in serious cases, they may be plunged into civil war.

Although it was a success, it was very effective, and the government forces protected their rear, the land under our feet, from the invasion of war through assassination, and it was those safe times that allowed the peace system to start functioning successfully.

It's effective, it protects a lot of people, and it could even be said that this practice saves us all.

Do you want to lament the wisdom and decisiveness of the government army? To appreciate the way through assassination, so many people have been saved?

This is by no means justice, you don't think that their assassination is some kind of military operation.

These assassinations were not carried out by military personnel or special forces.

Not only us, but all countries in the world at that time did not have the spare strength to train such special forces.

The assassination must be carried out, but what is lacking is talent, and what comes into being is the cruel [response mechanism].

"For a successful assassination, you will forcibly recruit innocent children of the locals, you will kidnap the families of those children, coerce those children to do a lifeless assassination, and if you fail, their families will be killed by you, and if you succeed, you will not spare their families, because they will not come back alive."

It's a scene I've seen with my own eyes.

The assassination failed, and the child, who was hit by a bullet, still struggled to crawl forward.

The child who fell in a pool of blood kept crying for her mom and dad, and kept begging us to save her mom and dad.

Blood gushed down his throat, and the pain mixed blood with tears.

At that time, my father asked for the location of the child's family.

But by the time we arrived at his house, his father, mother, and brother were all dead.

"Oh, one thing, you did a good job, you killed the families of those children very cleanly, there was no sign of torture, should I praise you as humanitarians?"

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"At the very least, we give them someone to hate, and they know who they should hate."

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Pretty words.

Bear everything, make people admire.

If they weren't recruiting children, I think I'd approve of his words.

"Tell me, who are those kids really going to hate in the last moments of their lives? Do they know what hate is? Aren't they just being instilled by you that they have to do it? Or do you think there are souls and resentful spirits in this world? When they die, they will come and hate you?"

"This is war, you should understand, we can't change the world, let alone save anyone, there are no heroes in this world, there is no savior, we are just a group of ordinary people who can't do anything, we can't save anyone, we can survive, it's already luck, in such a world, what else can you ask for?"

"So you gave up thinking? Have you given up thinking about right and wrong, thinking about human nature and animal nature? Are you still a human being?"

"No, of course not, people? I never said I was human, I was just an emotionless weapon of killing, and if I didn't, how would I survive."

Ogihito's answer... It was completely unexpected, did the unpleasant memories I had just now also evoke his memory?

War... The wars that have passed have not left us at all.

I watched him hammer the ground weakly.

"I know you're talking about [Response Mechanism], do you know what it means? We have a disease in our country, we don't have a doctor, so we have to cut off the infected place, so we need them to fill the gap, and only then will the wound heal."

"Is this healing? Are you a stone, or a building, that can be filled in this way?"

"I've been an instructor at this institution."

「...」

"I'm the instructor in charge of teaching, simple assassination techniques, and the people I train are only teenagers and girls under the age of fifteen, I know! This is not normal! I know they shouldn't be involved! But I don't even have the right to protest, I can't change it, I can't save those people."

「...」

"Those children, they know that they will die, they know how cruel the task they have to perform is for them, but they are not shrouded in the haze of death, every day is simple, the technique that will send them to death, they all study it seriously, you know, smile, they have never left them, but it is such a group of people, but they have always been favored by death."

「...」

"Day after day, I keep sending away those teenagers and girls with gray smiles, they can't say a word, their families are all controlled by us, cruel, cruel, and inhumane, yes, yes! But so what, by sacrificing a few, you can save the majority! Is this wrong? No! It's for our future, and I keep telling myself that."

「...」

"Gave up thinking, mechanical operation, until the last person left, she told me with a smile."

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"I also wish I didn't have to disappear, and I also want others to remember, bonding... The traces that have existed want to be kept, and thanks to the instructors, our wishes have been fulfilled, and what we want to stay has been left, so instructors, please don't forget us."

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"They! I think that the short-lived, training in assassination techniques is the happiest moment of their lives, because it is only during this short period of time that they are not alone."

"In order to prevent the death of important people, in order to save the country, he chooses to sacrifice himself."

"For a short time, they forced their faces to laugh, deceived each other, and scrambled to carry more pain, and they all hoped that the rest of them would be able to leave more memories of their happiness and their own happiness."

"Our fragile world has to endure at such a cost."

"They have to face death alone, they have nothing, but they have to use what they have, that little life, to accomplish the task."

"Because only in this way can the family they want to protect, the country they want to save, inherit their lost lives and continue to exist."

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(End of chapter)

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