"Self-redemption? Ridiculous!"
Ju Snake's laughter rang out in the Night Watchman's mind.
"What did I do wrong? What do I need redemption for? Like all of you, I'm simply a part of this world, doing what I should be doing. What gives you the right to strip me of my freedom and imprison me in this wretched place for all eternity?"
"How could you think you're doing what you should be doing?"
The Night Watchman frowned and asked in some bewilderment, "All you know is slaughter and spreading disaster. Wherever you Calamity Beasts pass, the land is filled with cries of suffering and rivers of blood. Far too many innocent creatures have died horribly at your hands. That's precisely why other living beings have come to hate you. That's the real reason you're imprisoned here! If you don't change your nature and your ways, even if you escape this time, you'll be imprisoned again sooner or later!"
"Other creatures? Innocent? Hehehe..."
Ju Snake burst out laughing again.
"In the end, aren't you still looking at things from the perspective of 'living creatures' and treating me as an enemy? You didn't imprison me because you're so 'innocent,' but simply because I infringed on your interests!"
"You intelligent races always consider yourselves the rulers of the world. In the name of 'survival,' you reshape the world however you please, making it more suitable for yourselves to live in. But have you ever considered that, to the world itself, you 'living creatures' are the real cancer?"
"Creatures in the True World have no lifespan mechanism. With enough food and no fighting, all creatures can live forever, and that will inevitably cause the world's population to keep growing until everything collapses. We Calamity Beasts exist to curb that overpopulation. By periodically killing large numbers