"What...?"
Mahito's voice was full of astonishment, and Dagon, who had been submerged the whole time, also rose to the surface.
The Herrscher of Reason was rather speechless. She had actually always known about the little schemes these people had been pulling behind her back, as well as Mahito's petty thoughts. After all, she was the Herrscher of Reason. Trying to play mind games and schemes with her—wasn't that a joke?
She was genuinely speechless. Originally, she did not hold much hostility toward these four Cursed Spirits. It could not be said that she had none at all, but at the very least, she had not intended to kill them. She truly had planned to point them toward a way out.
If someone asked her, "Then what about the humans they killed?" They had simply been unlucky, having failed to encounter her.
Ever since she had arrived, these Cursed Spirits had not killed a single person. Do not talk about how there could be no reconciliation because they had killed humans before. Racial wars and racial reconciliation did not hinge on whether someone had killed people on your side, because your side had killed people on theirs as well. If that was what they argued over, then reconciliation would never even be possible.
Why was racial reconciliation even a thing? Because neither side's fighting was driven by malice, but by racial positions. Cursed Spirits were beings born with malice toward humans. That was simply their nature. Humans were killed by Cursed Spirits, so naturally they had to kill Cursed Spirits to protect themselves. The two sides were ecologically opposed, and Cursed Spirits needed humans while humans did not need Cursed Spirits.
But the Herrscher of Reason could change that status quo. She had never cared about race. To put it