Let them bear the fate of dogs who could only wag their tails and beg for your favor.
As she said this, {Shiki Ryougi}'s tone was perfectly calm, as though it were only natural.
Even Roland was briefly stunned by the weight of those words.
Impressive.
Although such blunt, almost sadistic remarks were commonplace for Manaka Sajyou too, perhaps because she was not essentially an avatar of the Root, but a girl connected to it,
under the influence of love and bashfulness, her words often contained pure, intense emotion.
Even people with no connection to her, male or female, could feel that suffocating love.
But when {Shiki Ryougi} spoke, even her gaze never wavered, as though this were an everyday question about what Roland would have for breakfast tomorrow.
That combination of the ordinary and extraordinary conveyed nothing but a pressure so frightening it made one's hair stand on end.
Roland, however, was clearly an exception.
Such blatant words instead sent excitement surging through him.
"Although you are all my children, if a truly irreconcilable conflict broke out, I would probably indulge your actions."
"So a truly excellent mother ought to nip those conflicts in the bud."
{Shiki Ryougi} tilted her head slightly, stroking Roland's cheek with interest.
"Besides, you like doing this too, don't you? Watching girls who are demonic and twisted, yet stand high above others, fall and submit is one of your hobbies, isn't it?"
The girl was entirely serious, without the slightest sign of joking.
Although discussing his kinks with a girl he admired and respected was somewhat awkward, considering that records of his actions had long since been engraved in the Root, Roland felt little embarrassment.
After all, thinking about it carefully, he had already formally graduated when it came to entering and leaving the