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We had been investigating the fabrications surrounding the demon attack when Olivia and I stumbled upon something different.
In Raziern, the capital of the Kingdom of Levaina, the demon attack had shocked the entire populace, and the fear it had triggered had led them to lose their ability to think rationally.
Although the demons sent by the Demon King had vanished without a trace, the lingering effects of the attack still lingered. They couldn’t understand why the Demon King had attacked Raziern, and their fear drove them to find a reason for it.
They distrusted the announcements from their own royal family and the empire, and turned their suspicions onto neighbors they naturally distrusted, labeling them as members of the Demon God Cult. The reasons were often trivial.
It could be something as insignificant as always having a foreboding expression and wandering around while speaking in cryptic terms, or not getting along well with others and staying cooped up at home, or being accused of idolatry for having an unidentified statue in their house. These reasons were hardly worth mentioning.
In extreme situations, unconventional individuals were stigmatized, and people, unwilling to admit that their discomfort was simply because it was unpleasant, would try to turn that person into an object of hatred.
The reason didn’t matter. They just wanted to turn their object of ire into someone deserving of death.
Olivia and I did not intervene. The jurisdiction of the empire did not extend to such incidents. The empire was investigating the Demon King’s attack, but that was as far as it went. There were limits to what Olivia and I could interfere in.
If someone from the empire meddled in the affairs of a vassal state’s...
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