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That night…
“Your Highness, are you asleep?”
“No, not yet.”
I was lying in the bed, and Eleris was seated in the chair by the bedside. I definitely felt uncomfortable falling asleep, but at the same time, I didn’t mind her presence at all. It was a strange feeling.
“Why, do you have something to say?”
“…”
Eleris didn’t respond with a clear yes or no.
After a long silence, Eleris said quietly, “I do not think that humans are better beings than demons.”
I wondered what she was getting at. Eleris was gazing at me steadily. Sadness lingered in her red vampire eyes.
“You’re right. Demons are a mix of many races, while humans are a single-blooded species.”
I didn’t really know which race was better or worse. There were many individual demon races with superior racial traits. However, even if they were physically superior to humans, they might still be comparatively lacking in intelligence. Perhaps there were even races that were lacking in both, or races that were superior in both.
Eleris shook her head in response. “That is not what I mean.”
“Then? What do you mean?”
“I’m saying that I do not believe humans are more virtuous than demons.”
“Oh. Is that what you were talking about?”
“Yes.”
Eleris might have considered the demons’ defeat to be a fortunate event, but perhaps she simply hated war.
Factually speaking, Eleris was basically a betrayer of demons.
“Humans as a race know what prosperity is.”
To Eleris, the Demon Realm focused only on war, and was all about establishing a stronger army and...
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