After saying that, the girl smiled and asked:
"Is that sad?"
"No. You are merely going where you should go now. It is not something worth grieving over."
The Saintess answered in a firm voice.
"That is why you will not cry for us?"
The Saintess did not cry. She merely sealed away her heart beneath a thick shell, trampling the children with a cold attitude. She had no right to grieve. She was not judging sins; she simply did not permit their existence. She had absolutely no right to mourn them.
"Offer songs of joy to the righteous, and let the unrighteous fall silent."
Ruler continued chanting the holy words.
The girl neither smiled nor grieved, merely accepting it all with vacant eyes.
Rest in Peace
"May the departed souls find rest."
"They really are pitiful."
Leaving behind only words of pity for the Saintess, the last girl vanished. The haze had completely dispersed as well. Her knees did not bend. They absolutely could not bend. She would not cry or make a single sobbing sound. She could not feel pity for those children who had not been permitted to be born.
Compassion would only bring about more victims. Once she was drawn into it, everything would become futile.
She had personally killed those victims who cried, "We only wanted to go back." No one would hold her accountable; no one could condemn her. It was merely murder, silently engraving sin upon her soul.
Blood flowed from her tightly bitten lips.
Ruler was now experiencing humanity's sins firsthand.
"Even so."
Even so, she would not be discouraged. Ruler kept a vigilant eye on "Red" Archer while worrying about Lin Yan, who should have been dragged into the haze with her. However, she was certain that if she so much