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Ellen waited outside the inn to deal with any guards that might come out, while Eleris and I wandered around Klitz Point. We were searching for supplies.
Klitz Point was about the size of a small town. It had an inn, a guild office, and some shops. All the people who should usually have been there were probably dead.
"… Your Highness."
"… Yes?”
Without Ellen around, Eleris spoke more comfortably.
"… Have you been disappointed in humans?"
Eleris had chosen to side with humans rather than demons. Now, though, she was asking if I had been disappointed in humans because of the ugly aspects I had seen. Eleris was already well aware of the ugly side of humanity. Because of that, she didn't seem to be despairing over humanity after witnessing the current situation.
Even during the recent slave trading incident, she had been angry, but it didn't seem like it was the first time she had discovered such a side to humanity.
Eleris seemed worried that I might be disappointed by the actions of humans.
"Good is just good, and bad is just bad."
There were people who lived virtuously, and others who lived disgracefully. There were also people who fluctuated between the two.
"A species is just a species. It can't be inherently good or bad."
That’s just the way things are; there's no reason to be disappointed in a species itself.
A bad person is just a bad person; humanity itself isn’t bad....
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