Chapter 455: Thinking About the Righteousness of Life

The nails of beast-eared demons such as cat-eared demons are not usually retracted into the flesh, but are made long, sharp, and strong by magic.

But even if they run out of mana or are banned, they can still release their claws as the last and most reliable means of attack.

They are so sharp that they can easily pierce the human body. It's strong enough to block swords.

So technically speaking, the beast-eared girl is born with deadly weapons. After being caught, they are harder to control than ordinary humans.

...Except for bunny-eared girls like Nao who can't extend their claws.

The easiest way to stop them from popping out their claws is to remove all their nails - like blindfolding Medusa.

Of course, there are many other means. For example, you can use special spells to prevent the claws from popping out.

The spell can be permanently applied to something she cannot remove—such as a slave collar.

On Earth, where spellcasters are extremely rare, this is just dark common sense within a small circle.

But in Jiuyuan Township, where magic power is widespread, it has become basic common sense that everyone knows.

Yoshiyuki held the torch high and approached this amazing skeleton. Under the light of the torch, he carefully observed its structure. He imagined in his mind the scene of this giant Medusa when it was alive, and his heart was filled with shock.

Such well-preserved bone fossils should really be placed in a museum.

That way, more people can look at it and imagine what would happen if it suddenly grew bigger while it was in human form in the room.

Will it burst the room...

Or will it get stuck inside and unable to complete the transformation?

Of course, either way is possible.

There is even a possibility of being forced to cancel the transformation.

Yoshiyuki stopped to admire it for a moment, then took steps again, heading deeper into the mine.

However, as he walked away, a "short story in one sentence" came to his mind.

This is not to say that the story really only has one sentence, but that it is very short: "I am a necromancer who was caught and thrown into a mine to work. I was exhausted from digging with a hoe every day. Until just now, The hoe was smashed open by something hard, and I finally cried out - it was the skeleton of a giant dragon."

This means that the dragon can be resurrected next - or in other words, the skeletal dragon can be summoned and taken with him to kill people and kill Buddhas.

Regardless of whether the group of people who have the ability to catch him really can't defeat the dragon.

To be serious, there is a problem with the premise of this story.

Because he can't resurrect the dragon.

The complexity of the spell is far beyond the imagination of laymen. The person who made up this passage probably doesn’t know much about the Necromancer himself.

Resurrecting a more powerful corpse requires more time and material preparation.

No matter how powerful the Necromancer is, it is impossible for him to resurrect the dragon alone without enough casting materials.

And these materials are not very common.

If a prison authority allows prisoners to obtain these things, then anyone can probably escape.

In addition, people who can use magic must be dealt with when they are imprisoned.

The most common method that can be used for a long time at low cost is to rely on metal shackles to seal mana. In order to prevent prisoners from cutting off their hands and feet to regain their ability to cast spells, metal collars are always the first choice.

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Torches.

I quite like this thing.

It's not just a lighting tool, it's also a weapon.

The person holding it seemed to have some kind of close-range fire magic.

And both its temperature and the crackling sound it makes when it burns are quite mesmerizing.

Perhaps, the torch is a symbol of violence.

Because when he holds it in his hand, Yi Xing always imagines the feeling of hitting others with it.

Do enemies attacked by torches find the fire hotter, or do they find the blunt blow from the torch head harder to withstand?

What would it look like if it burned?

This is a sense of excitement that is difficult to experience for people who are accustomed to earth lighting technology.

As long as you hold the torch, you will feel like an explorer for a moment.

The first time he experienced this kind of excitement was not long after he traveled through time.

That day, he took a torch and went up the mountain to look at the stars with Erina and Hiro.

In fact, the eldest lady didn’t want Master to follow her at first.

But as soon as they went out, they were caught by the master smoking in front of the car. He claimed that the two children could not go up the mountain alone at night and insisted on accompanying them.

Now that I think about it, Master actually let the matter slip.

What he said at the beginning was that "two little girls cannot be allowed" to go up the mountain.

Then he changed his mind to two children.

Yoshiyuki once thought that since he had just arrived, the master had not yet remembered that he was a man.

Later I realized that it was not a question of whether I could remember it or not.

...but the master has been 100% sure of his true identity.

Speaking of which, this scene really feels immediate.

This was how he was discovered when he packed up the uncut eldest lady and took it out.

Kazuhiro always seemed to know when they were out wandering.

I just don’t want to care about it most of the time.

Yoshiyuki once thought that this was because he regarded the two as his son and daughter.

In the past two months, Yi Xing has learned that this is not the case.

As mentioned above - he felt from the bottom of his heart that these were two daughters, and felt that Yoshiyuki just didn't want to be a woman for some reason.

It's not like you have to be a man to be the guardian of the Underworld Miko, so Yoshiyuki doesn't know why he needs to pretend to be a man.

No matter how I think about it, I can only feel that my emotions are complicated and incomprehensible.

What made him feel complicated was that since he came to Jiuyuan Township, he felt more and more...

...There seems to be no problem being a daughter.

Especially, after today's dream, this is even more true.

He seemed to be resisting remembering something, but he couldn't help but merge with Yoshiyuki Yida's memory, and gradually began to identify with the hidden feminine side in his heart.

He had resisted recognizing this until now.

It's like I want to shrink half of myself deep in my heart.

If everything a person experiences in this life is meaningful, then Yoshiyuki will probably feel that this journey alone in Jiuyuan Township is for him to recognize himself.

...to reconcile him with the self-identity he has always suppressed.

Speaking of which...

Maekawa Yoshiyuki, that is, myself—who is he?

Thinking this way, he even began to feel that he had never thought carefully about this question, one of the most basic and difficult to answer in the field of philosophy.

...Except when rushing to the point of collapse.

At that time, he would feel surprisingly calm in his heart. You can also start to think about life well.

Yoshiyuki felt that perhaps this dark and closed environment would also help him think about these issues.