Satou's here. I think ending something without a fight is the best. However, I do think that it's different from the principle of nonresistance. It's necessary to take the appropriate actions against an opponent who invades further the more you yield.
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"First, let's start from the most important matter. I have saved most of the general populace, reincarnated and transported people of Weasel Kingom."
"Thank God...."
Sera who looked worried sighed in relief.
"As expected of my--"
"Mwu."
"--our Master, right."
Arisa changed her praise slightly due to Mia's dissatisfied mutter.
Many soldiers and the privileged class who abandoned the people and escaped the cities lost their lives, but since no one asked about it, I didn't mention it.
"All the cities in Weasel Empire besides the capital and Dejima Island have been turned into white salt by the God's Apostles, becoming ruins with no one left."
"You kiddin' me--"
Except for Tama and Pochi who don't really understand, everyone becomes pale.
Only Arisa is composed enough to joke.
"And, only the Temple Knights and Science Corps in the empire's capital have any kind of success in repulsing them."
Sera reproached the people opposing God's Apostles, muttering in a low voice, "How impious....", but I decided to pretend that I didn't hear it since it was something that couldn't be helped for religious people.
"In addition, demon lords manifested near the imperial capital and barged into the battle."
"But why?"
"--Who knows?"
Arisa's question is natural, but I too don't know the reason why.
There were some reincarnated people at the places where the demon lords manifested, so I couldn't help but think that maybe they were forced to turn into demon lords by the God's Apostles.
They probably didn't drink Demon Lord Orb like Shin boy did in Shiga Capital when he turned into a demon lord.
"And mysteriously, even God Zaikuon participated in that three-pronged melee."
"Haaaaa? But why!"
"I didn't ask the reason--"
I shake my head while soothing the peevish Arisa.
"--A wise man does not court danger, you see."
God Zaikuon might tell me if I interviewed him directly, but it felt like I would raise a battle flag if I made some strange connection with him.
"--That's quite true. Better not step on a tiger's tail."
It seemed Arisa remembered the thing she said to me when I went to Weasel Empire, she nodded in consent.
"For God Zaikuon to descend and personally deliver the Divine Punishment.... Unbelievable."
"You're right. My old friends said that the cost for a God to descend was extremely big, so they absolutely won't descend."
Hikaru affirmed Sera's muttering.
"Yes, even in the history of the temples, excepting the Invoke Deity ritual magic, the only record of the advent was 20.000 years ago during the war against the Dog-head Evil God."
God Zaikuon should be killed by the Dragon God 30 years ago, did he not manifest in the world at that time?
Or is it merely because it's not written in the [History of Temples]?
It bothers me a bit, think I'll ask about it to Aze-san when I visit Boruenan Forest later.
The one who told me that was the female intelligence agent in Selbira the labyrinth city, but since she got the information from Zaikuon God's priest who in turn learned it from an oracle granted to a miko of another God, she probably doesn't know much more even if I ask her.