I looked at Agent Haegeum.
The hand gripping the hilt of her Four Tiger Sword had gone stark white with tension.
As though she were trying to process the shock of what I had just said.
I could understand that.
I still had not properly processed it myself.
The fact that, instead of rescuing the citizens of Segwang Special City, the Supernatural Disaster Management Agency seemed to have chosen to sacrifice every last one of them as human offerings….
I lowered my gaze to my own hand.
This side did not exactly have much color in it either.
“…Why do you think that?”
“I found a record.”
“Can you tell me exactly what kind of record it was?”
So I did.
Rather than focusing on the explanation of the A Fun Research Institute, I focused on the fact that it was a statement record from a civilian who had been in Segwang Special City at the time.
“…….”
“…Agent. Could this also… be a kind of selection process?”
A selection process.
The choosing of sacrificial victims through the Scale of Evil.
-To save the innocent many, a useful few are selected to die efficiently.
Yes.
The reason I had felt, the moment I saw that record, as though I had been struck over the head and knew there was a high chance this was the truth, was because the flow was similar.
“I mean using people who are going to die anyway, in order to stop a catastrophe-class supernatural disaster that no method works against and whose death toll keeps increasing exponentially.”
Even if the people of Segwang Special City were rescued, if the catastrophe-class disaster could not be controlled, everyone would die together.
If that was the case, then instead they were “used usefully,” to stop the supernatural disaster from spreading any farther.
[It is rational. In hard times, when resources are scarce, would such judgments not also…