"Your attitude of 'acquiescing in the prophecy after the prophecy is reached' is not unheard of in my previous life."

Rika Fujimaru's calm attitude was almost cold:

"That's what the students who didn't do anything all the holiday and took advantage of the last day to cram on the plagiarism problem book. You use the nature of prophecy in this kind of thing, and it's no different from those who, after seeing the question and the answer, even if they can see that it's wrong at first time, give up thinking about what the correct answer is, and just copy the wrong answer like that. ”

In a fit of rage and humiliation, Conrad Coetz struggled violently in chains. It is impossible for the "Heavenly Lock" to break free from the fixation of his level of divinity, and it will only continue to tighten under resistance. But he didn't feel the surface of his power armor pottery steel and pure gold creaking under the excess pressure, even deforming and shattering, piercing into the flesh, and he didn't say a word, but he was very persistent in trying to get up from the chains.

The demigod-like robust shell and the pre-built weapons in it make it easy for any primordial to subjectively want to ignore their own pain. However, it is not the will of the demigods or weapons that unites all of this, but the fragile and resilient spirit of the human being.

In the Emperor's original design, he hoped that this "human possibility" would give the Primordial something more than the brutal and unstable nature of subspace, or the cold logical data. And it did work as he had hoped. It's just that the emperor forgot that the flowers in the nursery always need a stable environment, careful pruning, watering with water and the care of the sun, and most of the original ones do not have these. They may or may not be flowers in difficult circumstances.

And allowing such a spirit and will to control the original body's body becomes a disaster.

This analogy may be a bit difficult for you to understand. I'm sure you've seen my memories, but I don't think you'll notice such a life-like part. Fujimaru Rika said in a breathtaking cold and steady tone as if she hadn't noticed the anger of a primordial at all, "I'm not very much in favor of settling old scores, but if you want to understand what this is all about, you probably have to mention the past." ”

Even though Coetze's movements were almost completely limited by the Sky Lock, his intense emotions almost set off a small storm in subspace. If an ordinary mortal were standing here, he might even be directly frightened to death by the wrath of the Son of God; If Lieutenant Fish, and even Ferros, the Iron Father, were to face this scene, even if they could speak and even attack each other, they would probably not be able to do so without being affected in the slightest, with the same precision and precision as usual.

But Fujimaru stood there, showing little of a different attitude than she had in her conversation with Adjutant Fish, and even "turning over old accounts" in a coherent manner, as she put it.

"When we were looking for the scattered Midnight Lords, we were tasked with uniting them again into a working battle cluster, but you killed almost everyone you came across. I don't have a problem with you putting to death those who deserve it, but they're all your genetic offspring, so don't you think about the slightest possibility that they might be able to change for the better? ”

"You're nothing but mortal! What do you know?! Conrad Coetze's eyes widened, "You don't know what kind of criminals and scum my legion is made up of!" ”

"I know, I've tried, so I know." There was even a hint of sadness in Rika Fujimaru's tone, "They can really change for the better." With a little opportunity and proper guidance, those who are 'consistent' are in the minority. As the head of the Legion, you didn't give them that. ”

This would have sounded utterly impossible to others: how could a mortal have "tried" such a theory in the Chaos Gang? But Coetzes was visibly choked for a moment: whether it was true or not, at least he did listen to it.

- And then, he was even angrier because of it:

"You mean it's all my fault?!"

"Is it that hard to admit that? People make mistakes, and the same is true for the original. Rika Fujimaru said it as a matter of course, "Making mistakes, realizing mistakes, and then growing out of mistakes, this is how human beings are self-correcting little by little to evolve in a better and more perfect direction." If you are so stubborn that you don't even admit it, then you really have no future." ”

"Either way, the 'future' is there, I can see—"

"You know that 'seeing' isn't a good thing, right? What happened on Jestal should have proven to you that what you 'see' doesn't have to really happen. As long as 'work hard enough', neither the 'past' nor the 'future' are things that cannot be changed. ”

"I'm just using this to choose a more correct and efficient approach—"

"Do you think so?" Rika Fujimaru asked the same question twice euphemistically in a progressive form, "In your opinion, did you choose that way?" ”

"What?"

When this question was repeated for the third time, it finally reached the end:

"Does 'more correct' and 'more efficient' mean 'simpler' for you?"

"-How dare you?!"

"Isn't that so? Do you kill all the children you consider 'unqualified' because it is more difficult to 'kill them all' than to 'teach them to be qualified legionnaires'? Do you choose to let your poisoned legion degenerate like that, because it is more difficult to 'go with the flow' than to 'straighten out military discipline'? That's why I say you are weak, you are a coward, because you will not resist even the slightest prophecy and face the challenges of the 'future', and only dare to follow the known established path!

"You claim that your brutal actions are 'for the sake of justice,' but you have never thought about what to do with your so-called 'sinners' other than torture and killing, and Nostramo has reverted to chaos and violence when order has vanished, and you have only thought of erasing her from the star chart with an extermination warrant. When will you realize that your 'righteousness' has never eliminated 'evil' per se, but only 'those who commit it' – because the latter is obviously simpler than the former?

"Even you decided to die on Tagusa. You want to be punished, and you think sinners, including you, should be punished accordingly—but look at the galaxy that has been burning for 10,000 years! You are supposed to be the most just judge, and you come and tell me, do you think that this is a crime that can be atoneted by death? Even if you accidentally break your neighbor's window, you should at least pay the price. If you really realize that the rebellion is wrong, the best thing to do is to find a way to save even a little bit of the mess?

But you have chosen only one death, for death is obviously a simpler punishment—but it is used not because it is a proper weight, but because there is no worse punishment for the sin you have committed!

"Conrad Coetze, you've had a long time of adapting and adjusting, both physically and mentally, since your 'recovery'. If you still have even a little bit of self-esteem and responsibility as a 'human', then in this 'second life', you should have grown up a little bit and taken on the responsibilities that you should have shouldered, right? ”

It was a long passage, and Rika Fujimaru spoke for four minutes and seventeen seconds without stopping. Coetz was initially unconvinced in anger, but as the conversation progressed, he gradually quieted down.

He did want to refute it, but he couldn't find the right words to find it; He had never thought like this, but when the sharp blade of Fujimaru Rika's words pierced into his mental weakness with precision, he naturally understood the correctness of the other party's words. As the red rage faded from his cheeks, a white sense of shame and panic emerged. The creed he thought he had adhered to in his past life was shattered by these words, and even his pride and self-esteem as the original body were completely deconstructed. By the time the words fell, there was almost a corpse left there.

- Not to say that no one had ever said anything like this to Koz before, who had ever heard harsher comments than that. There are indeed some people who can finish such a passage completely, but the person who can make him listen to these words has never appeared before. Even if it's Yago Sevitalyon.

Even after realizing that the other party is right, he can still always sophistry with himself, but in front of Fujimaru Rika, all the justifications he could have used to speak to himself are no longer valid:

In the illusion, she knew all the tragedies he knew, all the pain he had experienced, and all the torture he had felt. Based on this, she succeeded in changing everything he had never changed, pointing to a completely different future. She even used the will of a mortal in the illusion to exert all of Koz's functions as a primordial, and even some of them, Koz himself did not know that she had.

If there is really any existence in this world that can accuse him, then apart from the emperor, there is only Fujimaru Rikka.

And Rika Fujimaru is right, he knows this, so he can't help but accept it. Even if this correctness denied almost all of his life, he could not find a reason for himself to resist this fact. Then he realized that this idea of "refusing to admit mistakes and guilt" was also a kind of cowardice.

Conrad Coetze, finally unable to hold back, let out a weak whimper under the heavy restraint of the chains as the Iron Hand and the Midnight Lord members silently looked around.

He just wanted to disappear from where he was now, so he could hide in a dark corner where no one was around. It would make him feel familiar and safe.

At this moment, Fujimaru Ritsuka's anger, like magma flowing under the fragile ice surface, could only maintain a false calm, suddenly melted. Holding the Aquila Scepter at a non-threatening angle, she slowly stepped forward to Koz, trying to make eye contact with the Original's near-pure black eyes:

“…… Started to introspect? Do you finally realize what the problem is? "It's not even a yin and yang weirdness, it's just a little simple, out of concern to confirm, "Although this is not right, it can barely be regarded as a 'legitimate mistake' at the beginning." After all, no one has ever told you what to do, and it's normal to find the wrong path if you're just scratching your own. After that, it wasn't without the opportunity for you to realize that something was wrong and change it...... But in short, it's never too late to start if you're willing to start. ”

It's hard to say what Conrad Coates took these words for, but he did tremble with intense emotion, until every detail captured by his extra-gauge senses told him that Rika Fujimaru brought nothing more than pure love here.

It was too foreign to him. Coz knew that he and Rika Fujimaru were two individuals who had nothing to do with each other than the seemingly nonexistent contract, and his past experiences left him completely incomprehensible to where this love would come from without a genetic connection.

He instinctively wants to avoid something unfamiliar, and his human instinct prevents him from saying no. For a short time, his primordial-level brain didn't know what to do with the situation at hand, until Rika Fujimaru raised her hand and tentatively touched his breastplate.

- This is an act of hope and comfort. Perhaps in a normal situation, she would pat the person opposite her on the shoulder, which seemed reasonable. But now, the person in front of her was a primordial being, and even if Coz was on her knees, she would have to jump up to reach the lower edge of his shoulder armor. In order not to make things look too ridiculous, the cuirass was a relatively suitable height, but it looked a little weird, and she was hesitant because of it.

Coetz managed to decipher the meaning of "trying to comfort" in this action, and realized that although he couldn't figure out how it worked, the expression of "love" was always very different. Just as he instinctively knew how to use the love of his offspring for him, he instinctively tried to use this to free himself from the status quo.

The Primordials all possess some kind of supernatural charm, and even Conrad Coetzes's pale, haggard countenance in this almost shattered mood can seem pitiful to me. He himself was not subjectively aware of this, but in the eyes of others, the broken nobility and painful metamorphosis was heart-wrenching enough.

“…… I know wrong. Can you let me out? ”

Admitting his mistake was difficult for Koz, but this time he did. The expression of pain as the Primordial tried its best to overcome it undoubtedly tugged at the hearts of all the Midnight Lords present, and such a earnest request was unbearable to refute. Even Markan Ferros, who was the main victim and was forced to lie on the ground to watch the whole process, wanted to say for a moment: "Forget it." ”

But Fujimaru Rika quickly withdrew her hand, and her tone was categorical: "One yard to one yard, this is not good." ”

"W-but-"

"You're locked here because you have inflicted serious bodily harm on Markan Ferros, the Iron Father of the Iron Hand Warband, for no apparent reason." Rika Fujimaru took three steps back and said coldly, "This is not the same thing as that, don't blur the point." Adjutant Fish, where's the water cannon? ”

"But I'm the original! You can't do this! ”

"That's just because you're the primordial so I can do that! I'm very self-aware: I'm the kind of judge who is super prone to bending the law for personal gain. This is obviously not a good word, but Fujimaru Rika's tone when she introduced herself like this sounded proud, "Just because you are the original body, I will not say anything to you for favoritism-if someone else did something similar to the monk who held an important position in the warband, do you think it is a problem that can be solved by simply embarrassing yourself?" ”

Conrad Coetze's face once again had an expression that seemed to have collapsed in his worldview. Rika Fujimaru ignored him, and instead turned to the Iron Hand members who were watching nearby:

"By the way, can you bring in a few servo skulls? Record this and make it into a kind of video that can be copied at will. ”

Fujimaru Rika not only kills, but also punishes the heart:

"I'll take one with me and distribute it among the Midnight Lords. If he commits it again, I'll pass this video on to the Dark Angels and the whole group will know about it! ”

No matter what the original himself was thinking, if you only look at the form of the outward manifestation, he is completely down. After a few seconds of unilateral desperate silence, the small group of Midnight Lords behind Coates pushed a man out of the group after a brief nudge.

“…… Sir, this is not good. The man who was squeezed out protested, "After all, it's our Midnight Lord's original body, and it's an internal matter-"

"I almost forgot, it's your turn!" Fujimaru Rika turned the fire very freely, "I have touched a lot of 'good things' from other people's war groups along the way, right?" Don't hurry up and return it to others! ”

"Uh——?! What, but—"

"No but. If you're so enthusiastic about updating your equipment to improve your combat power, I'm sure you won't refuse to improve your combat power through high-intensity training in the simulation room. How about another three-day battle royale? Don't even think about hiding, the brothers you left behind on the ship are only going to be more active than I am in getting you up and stuffed into the simulation room. ”

After two seconds of silence, the five Midnight Lord Terminators of the same faction immediately let out a screech of sorting out their equipment. Astarte had always been quick to assemble, so after a dizzying dozen seconds, the many spears and cannons that had originally come from the Iron Hand were piled up in front of them, along with the corresponding ammunition.

Then, the awe-inspiring Iron Hands finally began to act accordingly. No one on the scene had any suspicion of the "Inquisitor" having Iron Man, the Mutant Primordial, and the Chaos Gang by his side. Rika Fujimaru's demands began to flow through the lines of command within the warband, without compromising in the slightest.

By the way, after this fifteen minutes and seven seconds of "accident", Adjutant Fish quietly uploaded a video-encrypted file to the server. No one has had time to check its contents yet, but anyone knows one thing clearly from the file's properties:

The length of the video is 15 minutes and 10 seconds.

I washed the cat in one go, washed 5K, and today there is no (peaceful).

The Iron Hand Peeping in the Torch: Favorite episode, record it.

The angel who woke up to make up the drama: The happiest episode, there is really your Lixiang.

The emperor who was busy for a while and turned his head to hear about this on the regent's side: the most scared episode, hurry up and see if there is anything wrong with the signal base station.

All of the above: Coetze? (No care)

After writing it, I realized that we don't know if there is a vacation homework in the exercise book type for Liben students during the holidays, but it doesn't matter anyway, so it should be.

(End of chapter)