Stockholm syndrome, also known as the Stockholm effect, hostage syndrome, or hostage captivity syndrome.
It refers to a strange condition in which a victim develops feelings for their captor and even turns around and helps them. These feelings can cause victims to become fond of, dependent on, or even assist their abusers.
For example, like right now?
A news report was playing on the TV. It said that a group of people in S City had been spreading the message that human history was about to end, and holding demonstrations. Chaos had quickly begun to spread through cities everywhere. The live footage clearly showed the demonstrators holding signs and shouting absurd slogans like "Appease the monster lords!", "Humanity has no chance of winning," "Surrender to survive," "Negotiate with the Monster Association," "Resist and you'll be killed," and "We should offer living sacrifices to monsters regularly."
There was no doubt about it: those hysterical people on the screen had come down with Stockholm syndrome. After being terrorized and frightened by monsters, they'd developed feelings for them, become dependent on them, and even started helping them.
"Pah!"
"What a bunch of idiots!"
Curling her lip, Tatsumaki angrily switched off the TV, then lay back down on the sofa.
"Those people are beyond saving. They can just let the monsters eat them!"
"And they actually think they can coexist peacefully with monsters?"
"Idiots!"
Tatsumaki tossed the remote aside, then gritted her teeth as she spoke to the little girl lying on another sofa and her younger sister Fubuki, who was sitting nearby.
Those monsters were obviously bent on wiping out humanity. And now some idiots were naïve enough to think that if they regularly sacrificed living people to the monsters, they could eke out an existence. Was that even possible?
"I don't want