Abnormal Moon

They either had to infiltrate other schools or infiltrate the enemy.

Does the Master really enjoy doing this kind of thing?

Miss Okita thought to herself, but she didn't dare to communicate with her Master telepathically.

She's like an ostrich now.

An ostrich just like Ms. Miku.

Under no circumstances should the Master discover that you are awake!

Another ten days or so passed, and it was July.

this day.

Roy, who was training three students, suddenly received a mission from the Department of Spellcasting.

It is said that a top-tier cursed spirit has appeared overseas, and he needs to exorcise it.

"Is this what you mean by arranging for me to leave Japan?"

Roy looked at the mission information in his hand, a playful smile on his face.

"It just so happens that my experiments with the Life-Generating Technique have reached the point where I can try them on myself... Let's see what kind of trouble you can stir up!"

Chapter 344 Cursed Embryo (63k)

"Hirohito Itadori, when you save someone, do you choose who you save?"

"I don't quite understand, what does it mean?"

During class one day.

During his training, Hisahito Itadori was asked a very serious question by his teacher, Roy.

"For example, if there is a dying person in front of you, but he is a notorious criminal who has killed many people, would you save him?"

"Well, I think it depends on the situation!"

Yuji Itadori hesitated for a moment, rubbed his messy hair, and then gave an answer with a confident look on his face.

"If this criminal is being targeted for death, I think he should be saved. Even if he is a bad person, he should face a proper death and be judged by the law. That is the right outcome!"

"What if the person who wants to kill this criminal is seeking revenge? He has family members who were killed by the criminal, he is heartbroken, and he wants to take revenge on this criminal. Do you think we should stop him?"

"Well... but the law should punish this criminal..."

Hisahito Itadori's tone sounded somewhat insecure.

His ideal was to save others. On the day he enrolled, shortly after Roy's suggestion, he realized that he was not based on his grandfather's words, but on his own will to save others.

If someone has the opportunity to save another person but fails to do so, resulting in that person's death, they will feel regretful when they look back on it in the future.

Thus, based on his grandfather's words, he developed his own ideal.

But his thoughts only went as far as "going to save people".

How to save them? Do I have the ability to save them? Who should I save? What if I die in the process of saving them? What if saving someone causes the death of someone close to me? Should I give up my ideals? ... These kinds of questions have not yet been entered into his simple mind.

"I'll ask you again, do you think the cursed spirit should be exorcised?"

Seeing that Yuujin Itadori seemed a bit overwhelmed, Roy didn't immediately press him for details. Instead, he smiled slightly and approached the question from a different angle.

"The cursed spirit should certainly be exorcised!"

Hisahito Itadori answered the question very quickly, almost without hesitation.

"The cursed spirit only harms people, right? Then we'll just have to exorcise it directly!"

"So, what do you think is the difference between a cursed spirit and a wicked human?"

"what?"

Hisahito Itadori was caught off guard by the question and took a moment to react.

“Well, for example…wisdom? Aren’t all cursed spirits monsters like wild beasts? Monsters that have no wisdom and still harm people are like pests, right? They can only be exorcised.”

"No, there are also intelligent beings among the cursed spirits. For example, in my debut battle, the three special-grade cursed spirits that attacked me were all intelligent cursed spirits that could communicate with humans."

Roy looked at Hisahito Itadori, smiled meaningfully, and rejected his guess.

"But without exception, they don't care about human life or death. When they fought me, they killed a large number of humans with a single move, ultimately resulting in the deaths of hundreds of people. From a criminological point of view, they are no different from notorious criminals, are they?"

"If you were in their shoes, and you possessed the power to exorcise them, what would you choose? To exorcise them, or to use the law to judge them?"

This problem was very simple for Roy.

There was absolutely no need to hesitate. He believed in the theory of retribution. Since he had already committed murder, he should be prepared to be killed in return. Since he had harmed others, he should have no complaints about being retaliated against in kind.

Whether it's a heinous criminal or a cursed spirit who has killed countless people, if he were to judge them, there would only be one outcome.

Just kill them and that's it.

But for Hisahito Itadori, it became a problem that caused his brain to shut down.

If cursed spirits possess intelligence, what's the difference between them and criminals?

Of course there is a difference: the cursed spirit is not human.

But can all cursed spirits be killed without trial simply because they are not human? If a cursed spirit is benevolent, should it be killed just because it is not human?

Is his ideal such a shallow thing?

What other differences are there?

It seems there aren't any more.

Any evildoer, whether a cursed spirit or a criminal, treats human life as worthless.

So, criminals can be saved and allowed to die a proper death, while cursed spirits must be exorcised like pests.

Hisahito Itadori frowned deeply, as if he were grappling with a century-old problem, lost in deep thought from which he could not extricate himself.

When Roy saw his expression, he understood.

Hisahito Itadori's thinking was still bound by the naive idea that "all lives are equal".

"Hisuhito."

Hearing his teacher call him again, Yuji Itadori snapped out of his reverie, looking at Roy with a slightly bewildered gaze and a desperate hope for an answer.

"Your ideal is to let others die the right death, right?"

"Yes."

Yuji Itadori nodded.

Is even this ideal wrong?

A look of disbelief flashed across his face.

"So, putting aside whether you have the ability to make someone die the right way, I'll only ask you one thing—what do you consider the right way to die?"

"Well... for example, according to the law..."

"There are so many countries in the world, and each country has its own laws. There are bound to be conflicts between them, but there is only one correct law. Which law do you think is right? The law of Japan?"

Some countries retain the death penalty.

Some countries, however, have abolished the death penalty.

Which approach is correct?

For a prisoner, under two different criminal laws, which outcome is correct?

"Don't tell me that you should follow the laws of the country where you are from. That's a convenient way to avoid the question. What I'm asking is, what do you think is the right way to die?"

Roy looked at Itadori Yuujin.

Watching him go from being deep in thought, to his facial features gradually contorting, to finally being covered in sweat.

And still, no results were obtained.

Although Hisahito Itadori is Japanese, he doesn't believe that Japanese law is necessarily the most correct.

However, it would be too much to ask him to think about such a philosophical problem, which is difficult even on a global scale, by himself alone!

"As expected, it won't work."

Seeing that Hisahito Itadori couldn't come to a conclusion after a long while, Roy shook his head.

There is no answer to this question.

For people living in different cultures and different worlds, both choices may be right, and it is right to choose either side.

Roy had no expectation that Hisahito Itadori would provide a philosophical answer.

What he hoped for was that Hisahito Itadori would come to a conclusion about which side he agreed with, and that he would make a choice between them, rather than solving the problem—no matter which choice he made, even if it was different from Roy's, he would at least acknowledge his ideals.

But being unable to choose between the two paths means that his ideals are nothing more than rootless duckweed.

If you don't even know what the right way to die is, how can you make choices for others?

"It's okay if you can't make a choice now, but remember, you can't stop thinking. You will definitely encounter a time in the future when you need to make a choice. If you still can't make a choice by then, then your ideals are as good as abandoned."