This was truly an unbelievably shitty choice!!
The Headmaster's expression was extremely grim.
If he chose to surrender, he would be standing with the man who had once made an enemy of the entire universe. If he chose to resist to the death, the consequences would be no better.
Many people knew that those killed by the undead could not be resurrected, but many more did not know that those killed by the Infernal undead would have their souls taken directly to the Inferno!
Anyone with even a little understanding of the realm of death knew what kind of place the Inferno was.
It was unquestionably a dreadful place, filled with undead who had committed the most heinous crimes—beings akin to the anti-human entities on D-Ball. After all, the one sealed there was a madman.
The Headmaster felt that he had never done anything too destructive to the balance of things in his life. His academic contributions were also extremely great. At worst, he should be assigned to a chaotic region. Surely he wouldn't be sent to the Inferno, right?
Perhaps, over the course of his long career, he might find a passage and sneak back to become a bootlicker for Her Majesty Queen Xi. That would not be a bad choice either.
But now, it seemed he had no choice at all.
If he boarded the pirate ship, he would join the lunatics in the Inferno. If he refused, he would still be killed and sent to join those lunatics—and his fate might be even more miserable. He had heard that the undead in the Inferno were truly like evil spirits. When they encountered a living soul, it was like finding a grand feast. The soul could be torn apart and devoured that very day.
What would happen to