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"It was innate. The lowliness of the common rabble was in their very nature," Aila said.

Mokania shook his head and looked at Aila with helplessness before speaking seriously. "Aila, have you ever considered that this way of thinking might be wrong?"

"Commoners and nobles alike are people."

"They had the same feelings," Mokania said.

Yet the first to oppose that claim was the villager.

"No. Nobles like them aren't people."

"You didn't see what we dug out of this manor. You don't understand." The mockery in the villager's words stabbed into Mokania's heart like nail after nail. "And you—you may look like a person, but you aren't one either!"

"When you saw us doing things that weren't all that cruel, you didn't hesitate to try to kill me. The only reason you spared my life now was so I could tell you more intelligence."

"Isn't that right? Deep down, you never saw me as a person either."

"But Aila was different. Even after he admitted to doing those things, the first thing you thought of was still how to save him."

"Admit it, you big shot from The Church. Deep down, you agreed with that man over there—you believed we were different." The villager's words made Mokania loosen his grip on him.

At that moment, Mokania had a thousand reasons he could use to persuade the villager, to tell him that he had merely been deceived and the like.

But none of those reasons could convince Mokania himself.

Take himself, for example. There was a demon sealed within his body as well.

Yet when he saw that the villager had also chosen to seal a demon inside his own body, his first reaction had been disgust.

They were clearly the same kind of being, yet he instinctively loathed the