Elysia Gives In; Trading the Leaders' Lives for the Continuation of Pre-Civilization / An Improved Binding Barrier; The Honkai Descends ...

"Even though we're clearly trying, out of the goodness of our hearts, to save this world, Miss Elysia, it seems you've always held quite a strong bias against us."

Looking at Elysia before him, who faintly looked as if she were about to enter Spinosaurus mode, An Xiu shook his head and spoke.

"The fact that you can hold such naive thoughts shows you still don't understand the root depravity of humanity. As a species, humans can be as great as they are great, and as vile as they are vile—countless times more without a bottom line than the limits of your imagination."

"For people like the latter, talking nicely is useless. The most direct and correct method is only to kill."

"Kill one batch of the rotten ones, then replace them with another batch that isn't quite as rotten, thereby rebuilding a new system. That is what would normally be done."

"A method like ours right now, where we haven't acted directly but instead control the original upper echelon in order to command the entire civilization—strictly speaking, we've still spared those people's lives."

"Miss Elysia, since you oppose our plan so much, could it be that you simply insist on taking those people's lives?"

"Huh?"

Hearing An Xiu's words, Elysia could not help but freeze slightly.

How had she suddenly become the radical who wanted other people dead, when everything had been perfectly fine a moment ago?

No, was she being morally coerced?!

Elysia, who had never read many books since childhood, tried hard to turn her functionally illiterate brain, but before she could think it through carefully, An Xiu in front of her spoke again.

"But that makes sense too. After all, at the end of the day, Miss Elysia, you aren't human. It's normal that you don't