Raios and Humbert reached their hands out towards Teiza's and Ronie's
faces at the same time and crept their fingertips across their foreheads and
cheeks as if to stir up their fear and shame further. The only reason why
they deftly avoided the lips was due to the restriction against direct contact
on the lips before taking the vows of marriage. However—while
establishing that as a taboo, what sort of law was one that allowed a girl to
be defiled through brute force before marriage? What significance does a
law like that have in its existence?
Twitch.
Suddenly, a sharp pain ran, deep within his right eye. That strange pain that
occurred sometimes, when he bore doubts about the law and church.
Normally, he would automatically stop his thoughts whenever he felt this
pain. But now, just this one time, Eugeo continued thinking while cowering
unsightly on the floor.
Each and every law or taboo should exist for the sake of allowing all of
those living in the Human World to pass their days in happiness. You must
not steal. You must not hurt. And, you must not defy the Axiom Church. It
was when all people followed that, that the world would maintain its peace.
However, if that was so, why were all of those laws full of «prohibitions»?
That countless number of prohibition clauses listed down, extending over
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hundreds of pages, wasn't needed; wouldn't this be all that had to be
written? Everyone should appreciate, pay their respects and possess a
benevolent heart towards everyone. If only that single sentence was
written down in the Taboo Index, something like Raios and Humbert luring
Teiza and Ronie into a trap and toying with them wouldn't happen.
In other words, it was impossible. Even through the authority of the
Church, it was not possible for all of mankind to hold only virtues. After all...
after all...
Humans were existences that held both good and evil from the start.
The Taboo Index held back no more than a mere, single portion of human
evil. That was why Raios and Humbert could stain those innocent girls by
slipping through the coarse stitches of the law, no, in a sense, they were
doing so while in accordance with the law. And, Eugeo already held no such
authority that could obstruct that. Now, at this very moment, the law was
permitting Raios's actions and prohibiting Eugeo's.
As if they had already forgotten about Eugeo's existence, the upper class
nobles were looking over the girls' bodies with blazing bright eyes as they
pulled them up. Exposing the front of their long garments, they hung over
those two to perform that final deed at last.