None of those present were good people. As humans, they understood the ugliness of human nature better than any race. Nature was like this: the strong ruled the weak, an eternal law.
It was precisely because humans occupied the seat of rulers that they arrogantly assigned different values to every form of life in nature.
There was no point condemning what that country had done to the ocean before the Reiki Revival. They could even shout, "All life is equal. Why are they allowed to catch ordinary fish but not high-value dolphins and whales?"
They brought it up only because, if that Mutant Sea Beast really was that Mutant Killer Whale, then its fury upon seeing that country and its desperate attempts to destroy it would make sense.
Perhaps its family or friends had been hunted by people from that country. Perhaps it had even suffered the same fate itself. After all, for easier transportation, they had always preferred targeting young whales.
They had no other thoughts on the matter. Their own hands were stained with the blood of Mutant Creatures, and they would not stand on the moral high ground to condemn others, because they themselves had never possessed that much morality.
The Spirit Energy fluctuations far beyond the limits of the First Sequence had already drawn attention. Combined with the commotion caused by Japan, many countries had witnessed that exhilarating Annihilation Song firsthand.
Attack after attack, carrying terrifying destructive force, directly obliterated an entire country.
Though the destroyed country was not particularly large in terms of area—perhaps comparable to a province in some major nation—there was no doubt that the strength displayed by that Mutant Sea Beast was far beyond that of other Mutant Creatures.
Even Mutant Sea Beasts at the First Sequence level, once considered humanity's greatest