'Personification of a concept? Wow, I wonder if Venators and spirit kings are also a wish? Still, this Gideon gives me bad vibes all over man.'
Hiro then looked to see the refugees all prostrating around Rilu like subjects to a queen and asked. "Rilu, now that the monsters are taken care of shouldn't we get going now?" The transmigrator who walked towards a nearby refugee suddenly felt bloodlust come from Gideon.
Better senses allowed one to detect killing intent and by extension blood lust. The transmigrator felt an inordinate amount coming from Rilu's Venator. He changed into a combat stance as he prepared to draw his weapon. The voice that answered her was not the kind energetic history nut but the apathetic enforcer of Starfall.
"Hiro-sama, I like you but please do not interfere with the trial. I do not want to kill you please refrain from obstructing me of my duties."
"What are you talking about Rilu?! We came down to help these people, what trial are you going on about."
Rilu then stood up and walked towards the morbidly obese man in opulent robes. One look told the world that this man definitely belonged to the upper class and valued riches about all.
"Hiro-sama, please correct your statement. I didn't come down to save these people. I came here to execute them."
The young light-brown chestnut-haired devoted nonchalantly swung her scythe horizontally above the fat man's ears. In the next second the top half of his face fell from his head, the expression was one of horror and unbelief. The blood gushed outward like a tsunami turning the ground crimson.
Shrieks and cries from the refugees echoed in the area. Yet Rilu was not done, the woman twirled around elegantly with her scythe. If not for the bloody weapon she would have looked divine.
The corpse of the fat man then became mutilated like meat in the slaughterhouse.
A small ball of light, like a wisp, then charged out of the body intending to fly to the sky. Gideon then raised his left hand and the wisp was sucked into his palm like dirt to a vacuum cleaner.
'UNHAND ME! I AM A DUKE OF GRACYEANOR! I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS!…..HELP!!!! PLEASE LET ME GO!! SO WHAT IF I DOMINATED SOME WHORES! IT WAS THEIR FAULT! I'M INNOCENT!'
Hiro heard a scream presumably from the soul as Gideon grabbed it by its neck. Unsure if only he heard it, Rilu then answered the wisp in an emotionless voice. One that sounded colder than ice.
"You are a sinner that uses the battle harem system to ravage scores of women. 43 counts of NTR, 400 counts of murder, and 423 counts of rape. 279 counts of mutilation, 786 counts of blackmail, 12,952 counts of Bribery, and 3000 counts of theft.
"Your evil makes me doubt the goodness of humanity. The [Scales of Justice] calls me to punish you, the blood on the ground calls for your reckoning. You are GUILTY!
"I sentence you to eternally suffer in the fires of hell. You will remain there till the end of time. I hereby cease your reincarnation and curse your descendants to death."
Gideon then opened a small portal behind him and threw the soul into it. 'YOU CAN'T DO THIS! I DEMAND TO SPEAK TO THE KING! AGHHH!!!!! HOTTTT!!! AAHHHHHHHH!!! I'M DYING! GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!! I'M SORRY!! PLEASE LET ME OUT!!!!'
The small portal closed as the duke's screams continued plaguing the refugees. The small demonstration gave new insights for Hiro to many things. What he saw was the punishment of a soul. Like the ones written in the good book, the ones that happen when the trumpets sound and all that.
The events that followed were like mirror images of the first one. The crimes differed but all the nobles were executed and sentenced to the portal without exception. When all the nobles died, Rilu then started executing the commoners.
"WAIT! COMPARED TO THOSE GUYS I AM A GOOD PERSON!" cried one of them.
"The scales of justice do not use others as a comparison, it only takes into account your deeds and actions. You, who have raped your own child dare say you are a good person? Repent in the flames, GUILTY"
The trials continued, and the evil deeds of the refugees were brought to light for others to witness. Rilu emotionlessly danced with her scythe as the young woman eviscerated people one after the other. When only the women and children were left. Rilu executed the women by branding them as harlots, liars, thieves, and murderers.
Hiro who wanted to interfere couldn't move due to Gideon's presence. This wasn't a trial this was an execution. When Rilu ran out of women she started to execute the children. Their crime? Being born from a sinner or theft due to hunger.
Unlike the nobles and the male commoners, the women and children's soles were not thrown into the fires. Maybe as a last mercy, they were allowed to continue their reincarnations. After a few minutes, everyone was dead.
No amount of tears, begging, or pleading worked on Rilu. Apathetic to the extreme, she danced and judged people without pause. After Hiro hurled the contents of his stomach onto the ground, he unexpectedly saw Rilu crying as the woman looked towards the heavens. Hiro then heard sorrowful whispers.
"My lady Rhyne, I have executed Justice as you have commanded. The voices have stopped, did I at least bring the victims some small solace?"
She then looked towards Hiro while tears streamed down her face.
"Hiro-sama did you know? I was raped by over fifty men in my hometown for a bag of rice. My mother got ravaged till she died. My brothers were beheaded and put on pikes. All because we were too weak to defend ourselves.
"Despite my father joining a battle harem, his domination rank was too low, so our family was NTR'd and forced to do inhumane acts for their entertainment. Dominators each hold three absolute commands to a submissive.
"These cannot be disobeyed and like skills move your body automatically. The Dom that NTRd me forced me to kill my father, beg strangers for sex, and then forced me to mutilate myself by removing my uterus."
Upon hearing her words, Hiro began to want to kill all the nobles in Valorious. In most manga and anime, the nobles were trash beyond salvation. It appears that even here they were the same. Rilu continued to speak in a solemn voice as she looked back toward the skies.
"Lady Rhyne ended all that. She freed, protected, and granted me power. I gained the skill [Scales of Justice] from our binding. Gideon came to me soon after and I started to serve as her devoted."
Rilu then looked toward Hiro as she declared. "Rhyne-sama is my goddess, I am her scythe. I will reap her enemies to the last. Everything I am, mind, heart, and soul belong to her, remember this. I could not even go against her if I wanted to."
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