Doubts

(November bounty event begins)

Two bleeding corpses lay in Rhodes Island's abandoned camp in the woods, where Doctor Anto had died.

One had been killed by his companion.

The other had chosen suicide after killing his companion.

It was an ending no one had expected.

Folinic stared blankly at Biedermann and Thorvald lying on the ground, her expression strange and conflicted.

After a long while, she slowly spoke.

"Why... the murderer has clearly paid the price for his actions, so why can't I feel happy about this ending at all?"

Anto's sacrifice had left Folinic emotionally unstable, until Bai Ye later found information on Biedermann and Thorvald.

Free from the troubles of the Infected issue and class divisions, she had simply and happily found someone to take revenge on.

And now, the reason behind the murder, its conclusion, and the murderer's fate all lay before her, yet she did not know how to accept any of it.

The girl suddenly recalled the past. She had asked Instructor Kal'tsit a question, but Kal'tsit had not answered her simplest question alone—"What should I seek revenge against?"

In truth, even when she found the two murderers, she had not known what to do.

An eye for an eye? Burn the two of them to death with fire as well?

Or hand them over to Leithania? To Wolumonde, or directly to the furious foreign Infected?

"This is fine too... No need to distract ourselves by thinking about anything else... If they had kept living, who knew what else they might have done? No one knew what else they had planned."

"People like that are truly terrifying. Doing something so utterly insane in the name of salvation... The key is that he himself believed he was right, that he was just. Honestly..."

Bai Ye spoke