"I took a moment to organize my thoughts."
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"After class in the afternoon, on my way home, I thought I had caught something. But looking outside the window, it was indeed afternoon, yet the day of the week is different."
"Today is the weekend."
"It’s the time when it wouldn’t be strange if I just lay in bed all day. The people who live in this accommodation never bother me, no matter what I do."
"During the harvest season, there are no students at the Royal Academy, so it’s hard to know the exact time."
"There are two harvesters who commute to the Royal Academy."
"Victoria and Kanna."
"But Kanna is busy at her hometown, killing the monsters that keep flooding in, and Victoria often heads outside right after class ends."
"If I’m confused about the date, it means someone has planned carefully to trap me."
"Vern City doesn’t have weekends or weekdays, and harvesters living in Brightshine don’t have days off."
"It’s dizzying."
"Vern City is currently gathering around the Purple Twilight Association and fighting soldiers coming from outside the city."
"In the end, things have escalated to a point. The police are supposed to protect the inside, and the [N O V E L I G H T] soldiers should be guarding the outside, but the soldiers attacked the inside."
"It was all to hide useless facts."
"It was a good idea to create many harvesters in the Brightshine slums beforehand. Based on what’s happening, many harvesters in Vern City will likely die."
"Strong and visible targets become easy targets for suppression. If they oppose, they’ll be dragged out, whether they participate in protests or not."
"That’s a good thing."
"If there’s someone escaping, the hatred will boil over appropriately."
"Hehe."
"Anyway, it’s the afternoon, so I finished the homework given at the Royal Academy, had my meal, and went to sleep."
"Tomorrow will be a weekday again."
"Morning came."
"I went to school at the Royal Academy as usual."
"But today, Meriwether’s face looks very pale. And there’s fear in the way she looks at me."
"I have a pretty good idea of why, but it’s hard to ask directly."
"There’s still fighting in Vern City, and it’s even worse than yesterday."
"No matter how strong the citizens are, when the army points their weapons, it’s normal to be annihilated. But the citizens were able to resist. In fact, they managed to drive the army out, making the situation even more serious."
"First of all, even if they can use strong magic, if they can’t use it, they’re no different from civilians."
"This world is a magical civilization, so there are no firearms like guns."
"The first protest started because they were asking to investigate the truth behind the incident in Vern City. And from the next protest, the protesters brought their reasons."
"If you overuse power devices, mana will deteriorate strangely, and it builds up. This defect makes it impossible to use mana-powered machines."
"Then the power devices overconsume mana, and the ambient mana decreases."
"In other words, it means that an area with a lack of mana can be created. The protesters who directly experienced the Vern City incident used this."
"Vern City is a city concentrated with cutting-edge technology."
"There are plenty of power devices. They used those to turn the city into a sort of mana vacuum. And the harvesters’ psychic powers work even without mana."
"When a soldier wrapped in a stiff mechanical suit enters the city, the mechanical suit stops working."
"At that point, there’s no need to kill with psychic powers. It just becomes a moving coffin. They can’t escape and are stabbed to death by the protesters inside the suit."
"Of course, soldiers who noticed this changed their tactics and started using magic from a distance, but most magic disappears as it flies, and techniques that fire projectiles can’t break through the dense building forests of Vern City, which could destroy the entire center."
"So even though the army has been deployed, Vern City is still fighting."
"If Meriwether heard this, it wouldn’t be surprising that she’s scared of me."
"The fact that I create harvesters means I can produce psychics who cause supernatural phenomena without relying on mana, which is pretty much the same as what I said."
"If it’s the intelligence agency, it’s normal to be afraid."
"I thought that as I entered the classroom. Today, Victoria sat at a seat far from mine."
"When I think about how I made friends after I fell, I feel that it’s okay to be a little farther away."
"But there’s one concern. Victoria doesn’t know what’s going on in her hometown, Vern City."
"The media is suspiciously not covering the situation in Vern City, so it’s strange that I know about it."
"It’d be better if she didn’t know. But after the story in Vern City is wrapped up, I hope she doesn’t get dragged in just because she’s from there."
"Thinking about that, lunch break came after morning classes ended."
"Just two days ago, Meriwether would’ve been saying this and that, but today, she’s silent. Instead, she cautiously looks at me."
"Right now, I’m ignoring her subtle looks."
"But I don’t plan on ignoring her forever. After today’s class, I’m going to make a new harvester."
"That way, I’ll be able to see how the kingdom plans to deal with the harvesters. If they really dislike increasing the number of harvesters, Meriwether will stop me."
"If not, it means they’re not considering the harvesters as a problem."
"If I aggressively use the situation in Vern City, I could use it to invade other countries, right?"
"In an age where the world is not organically connected, wars happen often."
"When the gains from war are far outweighed by the losses, only then can people barely stop the war."
"But only considering the losses of the person leading the country."
"If it’s a kingdom, the king. If it’s capitalism, the capitalists. If it’s a dictatorship, the dictator. That’s who considers the losses."
"In this kingdom, war could be easily started."
"After a long, quiet lunch, I returned to the classroom for the afternoon classes."
"Then, I left the Royal Academy and headed to where the people who could become harvesters were gathered. This place, too, is inside Brightshine."
"Just like last time, I plan to go a little out of my way to remember a place I haven’t been to yet."
"After walking for a while, I’ll head straight for it, so maybe I’ll realize I’m wandering around the capital with some kind of intention."
"In any world, there are a lot of people smarter than me."
"So, I walk east one day and west the next."
"I thought I was moving irregularly while filling in the map, but if someone’s smart, they might be able to read the pattern from my actions and figure out my intention."
"So, while keeping an eye out for being caught, I keep walking today."
"Today, I’m walking through a deserted area."
"It’s not a place as poor as Brightshine, but it’s a narrow road with shabby buildings scattered here and there, away from the busy streets."
"If I were really a guard, Meriwether should’ve said something, but instead, she’s glaring at me with fear and hostility."
"She’s not a guard after all."
"Instead, the witch attacked."
"The witch named Maleficent. She seemed to have reached the area that was hidden below the surface and chased me out, but I have to be careful."
"I had been complacent, thinking that since I’m a special monster, no magic would have any special effect on me. Didn’t the Primordial Heavenly Sovereign say that I’m the opposite of mana?"
"So, I thought I was immune to magic, but I didn’t expect to be vulnerable to mental attacks."
"At some point, I was hit by magic, and while Bell’s body was lying on the bed, I actually perceived that I was living my day normally."
"Thinking about how other people’s time stopped in the afternoon, Bell’s body was in a magical state."
"Objectively, I didn’t get up and just lay in bed all day, waking up in the afternoon."
"From Bell’s perspective, I got up in the morning, went to class, and then went to a strange place on the way back."
"From the perspective of other harvesters, time passed normally, and then stopped at some point in the afternoon."
"When the perception of a body is distorted, it means that the one inside shares that moment."
"So, yesterday, because it was the weekend, Victoria didn’t go to class and studied wound-up knight skills in her room, but she didn’t feel anything strange."
"When I met Victoria in the hallucination, from Bell’s perspective, I thought I was seeing Victoria from Bell’s point of view."
"I didn’t expect to be so weak to this."
"I ignore the part of the memories from Daegon and the Primordial Heavenly Sovereign that shines with mockery."
"As I walked through the area where the light doesn’t reach, I arrived in a place where the lower class lives, not as bad as Brightshine."
"As soon as I entered, I found a person lying on the ground."
"He was holding a bottle of alcohol, his face reddened as if everyone could tell he was drunk. One of his fingers was missing, and his toes, visible through his torn shoes, were pale with exposed bones."
"He’s dying."
"He’s the kind of person you often see in places like this."
"I sat in front of the man."
"But before I could say anything, the man, with his brow raised, looked at me with his dull, clouded eyes and immediately stood up, swinging the bottle at my head."
"Clang!"
"Hmm."
"It’s an attack without hesitation. The bottle shattered into pieces, and glass shards scattered everywhere. In addition, some of my blood and brain matter."
"‘Huh? What? Why aren’t you dead?’"
"Blood spilled from my head, and one side of my vision turned red."
"‘I don’t die.’" "‘Ha, what? Am I finally gone mad? I’ve never seen a girl like you before.’"
"The hatred, resignation, and despair are all there. It’s a light that almost reaches me but not quite."
"This is a light I can’t reach."
"In other words, I’m still alive."
"I placed my hand on his cheek. He flinched in surprise, then reached out and grabbed my hair."
"This person is really acting aggressively."
"Crack."
"A chilling sound. Then, his scalp and skull, pierced with glass shards, were torn off. I could feel my brain exposed."
"‘If you pull that hard, it’ll break, you know?’"
"The man, holding my shattered pieces in his hand, looked at it indifferently, then shifted his gaze back to me."
"‘Are you a monster?’" "‘Yes. You’ve probably heard of it at least once. Or should I say it like this here?’"
"I straightened up and spoke to him."
"‘I’ll give myself to you. But once you’ve finished everything, I’ll take everything you have. How about it?’"
"It’s the familiar contract phrase everyone knows."
"It’s been mentioned on the broadcast and in the newspapers several times. Even those who aren’t interested have probably heard of it."
"At least, if you live in the capital."
"The man looked down at my shard in his hand, glanced at my face and wounds, and nodded."
"I immediately pushed myself into him. While I was at it, I twisted reality to match my thoughts."
"My skin cracked and broke, revealing blue skin. Then, a muscular man stood in his place."
"The moment his body broke down, it was released, turning into a discarded veteran. His body had scars and diseases from fighting monsters at the country’s borders. Parasites intertwined as he died, an ordinary human."
"He stared down at his hand in shock, then took off his shoes and wiggled his toes."
"His breath relaxed, and the screams from his body stopped. He stood straight in the posture of his peak military days and looked at me, asking."
"‘What do you want from me?’"
"‘Now, do what you want. Do the things you couldn’t do, the things you wanted to do. Anything is fine. That’s what I want.’"
"Then, I changed his body into a harvester and raised the regenerated body. The man looked at me with complicated eyes, but after becoming a harvester, he lost interest."
"But after I was attacked and the so-called guard did nothing, I turned and looked at the guard."
"Meriwether was looking at me with a terrified expression."
"If I were human, I’d be dead, but I’m not human, so I survived. But an attack is still an attack. If there’s no guard, I should probably report this to the king or prince."
"While I was thinking about reporting to the witch for the attack, a man followed me near Meriwether."
"Meriwether stood still even as the harvester followed her. What is she thinking?"
"I took them both to a house where a child, dying from malnutrition and all kinds of boils, was lying. Then, I turned the child into a harvester."
"A harvester crying out in joy over the miracle and another harvester celebrating the newly healed body. Then, a harvester staring at me and Meriwether glaring at me with near disgust."
"That day ended like that."