Like the opening of a new story.
After Anna spoke the first line as if singing an aria, her bent body slowly straightened. The shadow cast on the ground stretched upward with her.
Her chest rose and fell, and her voice rang out.
"After the Perfected One died, we had no choice."
"The deaths of a large number of elite Native Humans were an immense blow to the Native Humans."
"You should understand very well how difficult it was to endure this Doomsday for so long while facing two kinds of monsters at once."
"Not only that, the death of the Perfected One was an even more devastating blow to the Native Humans. Their spiritual pillar had vanished. For a time, even the last remaining higher-ups intended to give up resistance, and humanity had completely entered the countdown to extinction."
"There was nothing we could do. Although the Mutants also suffered heavy losses, both their reproduction and strengthening rates were far faster than those of the Native Humans."
"Under those circumstances, at the final moment of crisis, our emperor stepped forward."
Anna's eyes flickered, and she seemed to smile with some emotion as she instinctively looked into the distance.
"He was merely a scientist, an ordinary person who could not even be considered a soldier. Of course, perhaps his Mental Strength was somewhat greater than normal."
"When the Mutants attempted to kill us all or capture us and raise us as food, the emperor was the first to propose the Mutated Theory."
"He first carried out the Swallowing Snake Plan with the last of the warriors. He spread a special virus among the Mutants and used a large amount of flesh as bait to 'infect' a large number of Zombies."
"Under the infection of this virus, or rather, this rare