"Kill him! Notify the other guards! That kid is Second Order!"
"God!? What should I do!? What am I supposed to do now!?"
"Should I explain that I was forced into it!? The people from the Fire Wolf Squad wanted to kill me first! These soldiers are in league with them!"
His whole body trembled. The thrill of revenge had left him exhilarated, but after killing those evil men, the young man once again fell into confusion.
He looked in horror at the large number of soldiers gathering at the city gates. Amid the panicked crowd, he saw many low-level Survivors like himself, watching him with undisguised delight and fear.
"Explain?"
"Do you really think they don't know you're innocent? These guards and so-called Search Squads use the excuse of making you members to drain you of everything."
"You gave up everything. Some people died to Zombies while trying to scrape together the registration fee. Others, for the sake of a pitiful few Credit Points, had no choice but to fight over meager resources like wild dogs."
"Don't you know what your sister did for you?"
"They decided to kill you the moment they saw you. Do you still not understand what that means?"
He guided him step by step.
Listening to the truth God revealed, a truth he had never dared face, the young man's heart trembled. Instinctively, he wanted to say something in fear.
"But maybe only these people are bad."
"If I hadn't encountered that monster and the Fire Wolf Squad, I might really have become a member of a squad. I might have become an awakened person, too."
"I've seen someone just like me. He even became a Squad Leader later!"
It was as if he refused to shatter the beautiful fantasy of the future he