What was the human heart?
"..." Hayato Hayama did not understand, so after remaining silent for a while, he finally said, "Then right now..."
"Mr. Katsura taught me that when someone suspects you have a weapon that could threaten them, then you'd better actually have one..."
"Huh?" Honestly, words like that were a bit too powerful for people of this country. After all, ordinary otaku—setting everything else aside, even protagonists transported to another world could be schemed against so thoroughly they did not even seem like protagonists. Was that reasonable?
If it were a transmigrator from the Celestial Empire, though—I, the sovereign of the Nine-Five...
Still, that was not really their fault. The only place likely to share the art of dragon-slaying with everyone was the Celestial Empire. Do not think that was nonsense—countless people abroad did not even know what the multiplication table was!
Well, some people would say they did not know the multiplication table because they had more advanced methods of calculation. Sorry, but that really was not the case. Take away their computers, and they were all blind with their eyes open...
There was no helping it. They believed in elite education. Commoners? What were commoners?
And this country was the same. People understood work, understood going to work, understood resisting... YI? They even understood... But they truly did not understand the art of dragon-slaying!
Of course, exclusion, isolation, and bullying did not exist only in this country. It was simply more obvious here...
But as Sogo Doma put it, bullying in this country was like blindly following the rules: whoever "everyone" wanted to bully got bullied, and no one could resist.
And over on Sogo Doma's side...
Not even mentioning Sogo Doma, the first thing that Katsura Kotaro taught Rumi Tsurumi was: "When people suspect