I took one last look at the girl. The world around Viscountess Amethyst and I kept changing rapidly, going from the snowy street where Marchioness Snowhite Rabbit tore the air with her whip, to the cave where Viscountess Pure Sacrednoir ripped corpses apart and ate human flesh, all the way to the battlefield where Viscountess Great Prawn Pearl commanded her army to massacre both soldiers and civilians.0

“Kill every one of them!”0

A general’s competence consisted of two factors: being good at killing people and having no hesitation to do so. Great Prawn Pearl was a very capable general.0

“This is the village of rebels, and we can’t tolerate any information about our military operations being leaked. It doesn’t matter if they are farmers or poor commoners. Do not take their status, gender, or age into consideration. Wipe them all out! I’ll take full responsibility.”0

Thousands of cavalry tracked down and killed the rebels. Surrounded by the soldiers, the villagers quivered. There were actual rebels among them, but most of the people there simply thought that their lord had started a war.0

“Please spare us! We are just country bumpkins who don’t know anything!”0

A politician’s competence lay in distinguishing between friend and foe so they could take care of their allies. Great Prawn Pearl was an incompetent politician. Humans became terribly cruel when they were competent in one way and incompetent in another.0

“Burn them.”0

The village was set on fire. The wooden fences built to protect the villagers had become their prisons. They tried to escape through the gaps between the wooden fences, but the kingdom’s soldiers gripped...0