After learning what Hassan and the Red Hand Party were doing, Iver realized... this was probably serious.
I can no longer turn a blind eye to this.
It was not that Iver wanted to interfere. He had not even investigated the situation himself, so he had no intention of choosing a side outright...
Rather, he had clearly realized one inevitable possibility—
If things continued developing this way, Abyss Angel could descend without warning at any moment!
Without a doubt, the Red Hand Party would never stop of their own accord.
They were a group of Dedication Path lunatics who had lost their homes and families, been twisted nearly insane by hatred, and were willing to sacrifice themselves to accomplish a great deed. They had no weaknesses to speak of, and were firmly convinced that they were walking the path of righteousness.
Unlike the bias and extremity of "Premature Death," which involved a suspected substitution of concepts—if one devoted themselves to the ideals of Premature Death, they would regard those they killed as "necessary sacrifices," reducing their value to zero and thus minimizing their own "sin."
Precisely because the holders of this belief possessed excessively high moral standards, they needed such methods to forcibly convince themselves.
But the Red Hand Party had no such need.
To these Desert People, morality was a luxury. They did not believe that everything they did was right, nor did they believe that everything they did was a "Necessary Evil."
Rather, they clearly knew that this was an unforgivable sin. They knew that they shared the same guilt as the good lords, yet still used human lives as kindling to ignite a great fire that would destroy everything—preferring to bear such a grave sin, and fall into demonhood after death, if it meant taking a vicious