"It was all caused by me." Aponia watched the tragedy of Dusk Street unfold in the footage, finding it hard to accept for a moment. She had never imagined that Dusk Street would be destroyed because of her.
"More accurately, it wasn't your fault. If anyone was to blame, it could only be Honkai." Seeing Aponia's self-blame, Shen Fei could not help but speak. No one involved in the tragedy of Dusk Street had really done anything wrong. Sakura had been hunting down a Moth to a Flame traitor, so naturally she could not be blamed.
There was nothing wrong with Pardofelis stealing Sakura's equipment either. A stranger had arrived in Dusk Street carrying a large amount of weaponry; it was perfectly normal for Pardofelis to worry that she posed a threat to the place. When Sakura saw so many orphans suffering from Honkai Disease at the orphanage, there was nothing wrong with reporting it. Strictly speaking, there had been nothing wrong with the High Command's orders to Sakura either. At the time, there was no cure for Honkai Disease. The order had been cruel, but from the bigger picture, it had made sense. If they had not done it, it would only have led to even greater disaster.
Shen Fei had never liked acting for the greater good, but in reality, some compromises were unavoidable. Just like how the Previous Civilization had dealt with the Herrscher of Binding—it had been a victory piled up with human lives. That was reality. If Shen Fei could only remain in the world of the Great Tang and did not possess sufficient strength, it would have been extremely difficult for him to seize the realm. Just look at how many forces the Buddhist sect had mobilized against Kou Zhong in the original work.