"Who do you think when you see them?" Robert's eyes swept across the ragged and even naked civilians passing by.
Brutus was silent for a moment and replied, "They are living people."
"Yes, but in the written report that the government officials have to submit, the people you and I have met are just a number." Robert sighed, "When you really see so many people who have suffered unrestrained disasters with your own eyes,
People with conscience will be touched somehow."
"However, for the nobles who live in suburban estates, the number of people on paper is not worth mentioning for their extravagant life. No matter how many people die, they only earn less money at most.
”
"Aren't you also from the nobles?" Brutus asked back.
"You're not completely right. I used to be - when I was a flower and bird fortune teller." He paused, "At that time, I was like Virlit, thinking that I could clear a zone by myself.
Evil, keep one's peace."
"What after?"
"I was still very young at that time, and there was a teacher who disciplined me and a veteran fortune teller. He taught me the first lesson, which made me clearly understand how inadequate my abilities were."
Brutus didn't respond. After all, such self-exposing his shortcomings cannot be proposed by others, and he has to do it himself.
"He took me to a slum in the city of Sissoco, where we met a lonely girl and a group of big men around her."
Brutus felt that this should not be the hero's development of saving beauty, otherwise it would be too dramatic.
The truth is exactly this: "The teacher said to me: 'Go to Robert, teach the evil people a lesson, I'll help you with this." Then I rushed up and was beaten up by the girl."
"At that time, I didn't even have the chance to fight back, so I was kicked without any power to fight back."
"Wait, shouldn't you know how to use magic? Why do you still rush forward when you encounter something?" Brutus didn't understand this approach. If he knew magic, he would definitely use it.
"Yes, this is the second mistake I made." Robert nodded, "The first mistake was to make the second mistake without careful observation."
"So that girl and the big men are in the same group?"
"No, on the contrary, they are from different gangs."
To put it bluntly, it's just a rogue fire... Although Brutus has never actually seen it, he still knows a lot about movies and hearsays, and he waits for Robert to continue talking.
"That day, the teacher and I happened to run into their territorial snatch. One of them sent this girl and said that as long as the other gang could beat her, he would give up the territorial snatch."
"As a result, the other party was so stupid that he sent a group of people to beat her up, and the result was that both of me and those people were knocked to the ground."
"If I were to change me, I would definitely use any tricks first." Brutus didn't expect that the territory merger could make him like a street gangster fight.
Robert was not concerned about what was interrupted by Brutus. He nodded in agreement and continued: "Who could have thought that a little gang with unknown names could find a girl with orc blood."
"Wait, what's going on with this orc bloodline?" Brutus felt that his knowledge base had to be updated again. Why did some unexpected information appear from time to time?
"Well, that's it." Robert thought about how to explain it better. "Orcs are a very general term. The kingdom mainly attacked green-skinned orcs appearing in the northern border areas, but there are also some poor offensives in the kingdom.
of other kinds of orcs.”
"And, and......" He paused for a long time, then leaned over to Brutus and whispered, "I heard that some noble ladies like to excite..."
Brutus glanced at Robert in surprise: "What about those male nobles?"
"Well, this stimulation does not mean orcs, but—" Robert's words came to an abrupt end.
Collectively, there is no reproductive isolation here, or there is, but not completely... Brutus understands, no wonder he would not list orcs with these channels as illegal creatures.
"We went back to the topic just now. After I was beaten by a girl, my teacher happened to appear and took several guards to attack the preparatory nobles, naturally arrested all the people present."
"So you are fishing and enforcing the law?"
"No, this is called taking risks with one's own risk." Robert corrected, "and eliminating harm for the people."
"So the gang where the girl is in has grown bigger, and that gang happened to be controlled by the official. It wouldn't be such a coincidence, right?"
Robert was silent for a moment and nodded helplessly: "You are right."
"And you convince yourself with 'nothing bad order is better than no order'?"
Another silence.
"To put it bluntly, picking one of the two pieces of shit is not very smelly." Brutus commented, "If you really want to solve these problems, it is always hundreds of times better to cure the slums than to raise a gu in it.
”
"So I'm not a flower and bird fortune teller now." Robert expressed his disapproval of the matter with his actions.
Brutus wanted to hear the story of the orc girl: "Then what about that girl, do you have anything else to say, right?"
"Dead." Everything happened to be deposited in memories with Robert's simple sentence.
Brutus looked at Robert with a lonely face and shook his head. Since that was the case, it was not easy to continue asking.
After a while, Robert returned to normal.
He slowed down a little: "Do you think we can see the day when species like humans and orcs can live in peace?"
"I don't have to think about this." Brutus couldn't help but think of a classic saying, but unfortunately he didn't know that it was good to translate it into Loma. "In order to survive, there will be a life-and-death battle. Either we destroy them, or they
Eliminate us.”
“What if there is enough room for survival?”
"Then the desire of the ruling class will pull everyone into an avoidable war." Brutus didn't understand where this guy came from the too advanced idealistic spirit, "and even humans will be because of
Wars were launched for all kinds of inexplicable reasons, not to mention between different species.”
Brutus continued: "No matter how beautiful your ideal is, it always depends on reality to achieve the possibility. Instead of worrying about the future of non-humans, it is better to think carefully about how to face Will later.
mother.”
"Under the grand narrative, everyone can live a happy life, and this is the imagination of the future. But since you have seen the civilians along the way, why don't you keep your eyes on these places in front of you?"