Mousse immediately activated his Observation Haki, and the corners of his mouth curled up. "What a mess of emotions. Looks like there's still something I don't know."
Even so, Mousse continued on the road with them. That evening, he pointed at the middle-aged man whose emotions were the most chaotic among the group and crooked a finger. "You, come here. I have something to ask you."
He said he had questions, but after Mousse brought the man somewhere his companions could not see him, he did not speak for a long while. He merely watched the increasingly conflicted man in silence, wearing a faint, inscrutable smile.
If you've got something to ask, then ask it! the middle-aged man screamed inwardly. Yet though his mouth opened and closed, he never dared say those words to Mousse.
After a long while, he finally could no longer bear the pressure in his heart. He dropped to his knees and burst into tears.
"Little master, what exactly do you want? If you want to kill us, then just kill us. Why torture us like this?"
Then, the middle-aged man told Mousse a piece of common knowledge that every citizen of the Flower Kingdom knew, but foreigners rarely did.
"There's actually a law like that?" Mousse was dumbfounded. He had brought these farmers, who had been driven into a corner, along because he wanted to help them. Who would have thought that the Flower Kingdom had a law that would leave them in such a dilemma?
It turned out that in the Flower Kingdom, people as vastly different from ordinary humans as Mousse and Robin were considered "demons." Once the people of the Flower Kingdom discovered one, they had to kill them immediately. If the target was too powerful to kill, they had to report