They simply refused to understand, refused to even try.
They were only pretending to turn a blind eye.
They were deliberately venting the ugliness in their hearts...
They actually thought that the Cursed Children were as filthy as the Gastrea.
They had denied the very existence of those children from the outset.
Even if the Cursed Children couldn't completely replace the entire new generation,
they had never realized—or perhaps simply refused to realize...—that those children, the so-called Cursed Children, all possessed their own consciousness, their own joys and sorrows...
Just think about it.
If they truly were nothing more than Gastrea,
could they be persecuted?
Could you persecute them?
You people would probably have been eaten long ago, wouldn't you?
How could you still be swaggering around?
If not for the Cursed Children's kindness, and their never having considered fighting back,
you ordinary people would have been killed long ago, wouldn't you?!
Any ordinary person would return a slap after being punched. Just how angelic and precious did those children have to be to suffer so much without ever thinking of taking revenge on society?
What was this?
Typical weaklings bullying the strong?
Continually manipulating them mentally, using CPU tactics?
Taking advantage of the strong's morality and kindness to keep them under control?
So!
What a pitiful world this was!
The Cursed Children clearly didn't need you to do anything for them.
They didn't need you to treat them especially well, either.
You only had to treat them like normal people...
At most, give them a tiny bit of the love they had never received, and that would have been enough!
They would have been willing to give you everything.
Yet you wouldn't even do that.
What... did that make you people, anyway?
"To be honest."
"This reminds me of