The Lion King's Trial

With the matter of the Demon God resolved, the Floating Garden swiftly flew back to the Holy City.

Inside the Holy City, within the Hall of Oaths.

The Lion King listened to the report from one of her Purification Knights.

Purification Knight: "The merchant caravan selling ghoul flesh has been eliminated. The meat they sold vanished into thin air."

Lion King: "What about those who ate the ghoul flesh?"

"They all died. Their bodies were reduced to ash beneath the sun and disappeared as well."

"...Leave."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The Purification Knight departed.

Gudao frowned deeply. "Those people were selling chunks of ghoul flesh. There must have been a great many civilian casualties, right?"

He had discovered the merchants making ghoul flesh and handing it out to civilians for free while carrying out a mission. A small-scale battle had even broken out in the city because of it.

Lion King: "Thirteen thousand and thirty-two people died. No one was injured."

"So many..." Mash looked stricken with grief. "The Holy City already provided enough supplies to meet their daily needs... If only they had not been tempted by that free feast of meat."

Lion King: "Freely distributing large quantities of braised meat to fill people's stomachs is a temptation that commoners of this era can scarcely resist. Unless we increase the supply of resources—but we cannot continue increasing it. Otherwise, what was meant to ease the era's distortion will become an accomplice in accelerating it."

Although she intended to carry out the Holy Extermination, which would ultimately push the era's distortion to its limit and destroy humanity, that did not prevent her from lending humanity a hand for the time being.

The good news was that the Demon God had been dealt with. The bad news was that Chaldea still had