Knight Asylum

It looked extremely peaceful and...dead.

"Uncle?" Red couldn't help but shout out.

"What's wrong?" Ming Hai turned his chair to face Red.

"No... nothing." Reid breathed a sigh of relief subconsciously, but immediately shook his head, "No, no, no, there is still something."

After hesitating for a moment, Reid recounted everything that happened today in detail. Ming Hai didn't say a word throughout the whole process, but just listened quietly.

"I... don't think I did anything wrong, okay—" Because Ming Hai's silence was too oppressive, Red awkwardly gestured with his hands, "The liver-blasting punch might be a little too much, but I'll hold back."

"Is this the answer you came up with?" Ming Hai raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Ahem—yes."

Red wanted to be vague, but looking at Minghai, who was sitting in the dusk and looked gloomy, Red dropped his shoulders, stopped hiding, and simply said what he was thinking.

"that's it."

Ming Hai raised his hand and pressed the round-brimmed hat on his head.

Chapter 362: Gentlemen, I Like War

I don't know who said this famous quote.

Your world has always been like that, you just become better at discovering it.

After realizing the existence of the special law for monsters and learning from Asano that the most efficient, cheapest, and fastest method implemented by various governments to allow humans, no, to be more precise, to gain controllable monster powers, Red became adept at discovering the impact of the silent induction carried out by various governments over the past decade.

Red was surprised to find that he had already known about many of the influences, but at that time he did not realize the implications behind the behavior.

Take the case of paid dating in high school girls in [S·L] for example. Adult men who seek paid dating from high school girls will be arrested, but weirdos will not. Many high school girls look down on adult human men, but actively seek out those weirdos.

At first Red thought it was just the rebellion and excitement-seeking of a young man, but now it seems that things are not that simple.

There are countless strange verdicts resulting from the special law for weirdos. In comparison, those weirdos who fight in the streets seem to be more upright. At least they admit what they have done, and they will not shamelessly seek protection from the law.

Even the weakest monster can easily break a person's bones, causing a trauma that cannot be repaired for a lifetime, but ordinary people are all ignored and no one cares about their feelings.

And now, because of Rosette's kidnapping case, governments around the world have stepped on the accelerator again and completely drowned out their voices. Now they dare not even mention it, for fear of becoming the "sinners" who destroy the great mission of peaceful coexistence between humans and monsters.

The ORE newspaper did not give up just because it was criticized in the news and was thrown Molotov cocktails by people who claimed to be Rosette's fans and weirdos. It was even more passionate about digging out the truth. Shinji Kido was like Spider-Man, running errands on weekdays, and if a Mirror Beast appeared, he would take out the Knight Card Box, transform himself into the Mirror Knight, enter the Mirror World and destroy the Mirror Beast.

Tezuka Umiyuki continued to investigate the Mirror Beast and Gaia's memory.

After a few days of peace, the much-anticipated Montana public trial began. For some unknown reason, U asked Red to represent Selvi Turia to attend the public trial.

As soon as Red arrived outside the Supreme Court, he saw several people arguing at the side door. Upon closer inspection, Red discovered that the person being scolded was Kitaoka Hideichi, and the ones shouting excitedly were the parents of the unconscious students.

Seeing that the parent's actions were getting more and more aggressive, Red instinctively felt that something was wrong. Just as he was about to step forward, the parent swung his bag and smashed it heavily on Kitaoka Hideichi's face, then turned and left.

"Lawyer Kitaoka, are you okay?" Reid hurried forward.

"Red? What's wrong with you...ah~ That's what happened, don't worry about it, it's a very common situation," Kitaoka Hideichi put down his right hand.

The parent was so excited that he didn't use any force, so a corner of Kitaoka Hideichi's skin was scratched and bleeding, but Kitaoka Hideichi himself didn't seem to care and just wiped it off.

"A common situation?"

"It was me who made them give up hope in the beginning, and it was me who made them feel that they could get justice. Now it's me who made them give up hope completely," Kitaoka Hideichi raised his hand and waved, "It was only a slap, which was very gentle. In fact, most of the parents forgave me when I got down from my seat... no, they accepted this result."

Red clenched his fists. If it weren't for the special law for weirdos, this case could have been won.

"You are here to listen to the public trial in Montana, right? You are really lucky. Although it is broadcast live around the world, the tickets for the live show are sold out."

Kitaoka Hideichi raised his hand and patted Reid's shoulder, his tone quite inappropriate.

"Lawyer Kitaoka, what do you think will happen to this public trial?" Reid smiled helplessly.

"What does it look like? Well... I don't know either, but I can be sure of one thing," Kitaoka Hideichi tightened his fingers slightly on Reid's shoulder.

"Even if time is reset, the changed world will never return to its original state."

Red, who had already had a stress reaction to the words "time" and "reset", suddenly widened his eyes. By the time Red realized that Hideichi Kitaoka had turned into the side door, Red immediately chased after him, but Hideichi Kitaoka was nowhere to be found.

Hell?

Impossible, the touch just now was so real.

Red turned his head and looked to the side. The tiles could be used as a mirror, reflecting his blurry figure. He narrowed his eyes slightly and checked the time on the watch on his wrist. The time for the public trial was almost up.

Red had no choice but to come to the hearing seat first.

Apparently, what Kitaoka Hideichi said about the opportunity to attend the public trial in person being in high demand was not an exaggeration. Although there is still some time before the public trial, the court seats are already full.

Fortunately, the seats were not on a first-come, first-served basis. After a lot of effort, Red finally squeezed into the front row.

"Are you here?"

A familiar voice sounded in Red's ears, and Red was stunned for a moment with his eyes wide open.

"Ms. Satonaka?"

"Yeah - it's me," Erika Sataka cheered in an extremely bland and perfunctory tone, then raised her finger and bent it towards Reid, "Poor Erika Sataka who was supposed to be on vacation but gave up sunbathing because the conditions offered by the president were too good."

"Ahahaha... This is really a pity. Is President Hong Shang also interested in this public trial?"

"It's more than just interest," Erika Satonaka's tone changed and she changed her sitting posture, as if she had become a different person, becoming extremely enchanting, with the hair on her forehead curled up naturally.

"Don't you think that given President Hongshang's personality, he might even be the mastermind behind this incident?"

To Erika Satonaka's surprise, Red was quite calm. He didn't shout "Impossible" or "Why" but just looked at her calmly.

"Maybe."

"Ha——what a boring man. Why would that guy fall for you?" [Erika Satonaka] clicked her tongue in dissatisfaction, and looked at the court in front of her with her chin in her hand.

Red smiled and didn't intend to explain, waiting for time to pass.

The clock hanging above the judge rang, and the moment the hour hand, minute hand, and second hand overlapped at the twelve position, the judge, prosecutor, and jury entered one after another.

Reid raised his brow slightly.

From the judge to the prosecutor, to the jury, they are all human beings, but except for him and Erika Satonaka, everyone in the courtroom is weird.

This is a trial open to the whole world, where monsters watch humans judge and humans threaten to expel monsters from the world.

Led by two police officers, Montana, dressed in prison uniform, stood in the dock with a confident and gentlemanly smile.

The judge raised his gavel and struck.

"Defendant, do you have anything to say?"

Montana raised his head with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, with an indescribable aura as if he was not being tried but rather mobilizing before a war.

"Gentlemen, I like war."

Chapter 363: Become a Pig or Enjoy Pigs

The moment the public trial began, a video clip quietly appeared on video websites in various countries. Because the title contained the claim that monsters were more powerful and superior than humans, it was approved without even being reviewed. It was even promoted and spread across the Internet at an extremely fast speed.

Amidst the hail of bullets, the Ultimate Kuuga walked among them like a god. Wherever his eyes looked, there was a raging fire. The extremely evil weapons born out of human war were fleeting, not even as good as fireworks.

The war weapon that was conceived by his brain in order to fight against monsters was pierced and thrown into the sky.

The young people waved their fists excitedly.

They knew they were weirdos, knew it was the human army that was blown up, and it was the military base that was built to protect them that was pierced, but they didn't care. Living in a peace constructed by words, they just thought it was all cool.

But people who are not young find all this extremely terrifying.

The army is mankind's umbrella of protection and a guarantee that they can live in peace, but this umbrella, this guarantee, was pierced by a weirdo without any chance of fighting back.

Whether it was excitement or despair, the boiling emotions needed an object to vent, and the public trial in Montana became the only object to vent.

Before it began, the governments made public all of Montana's [crimes].

"There is only one crime that really needs to be tried, and that is ignorance."

"No one cared, no one thought we were dying."

Montana raised his handcuffed hands.

“Self-esteem is fighting force and reason to move forward.”

“And we’re losing all of that.”

"Eh - that's right. You give up your dignity, dare not fight with monsters, and are willing to kneel on the ground and let monsters ride on your head, making young women proud to be defiled by monsters, and making young men proud to please monsters."

Red, who was sitting in the courtroom, noticed something was wrong.

Montana doesn't look like a defendant right now, and this doesn't just refer to Montana's attitude, but also his actual behavior.

Montana's speech had already surpassed the judge's initial questions, but the judge did not interrupt Montana with the gavel. The prosecutor remained silent throughout the trial. The jury stared at Montana the entire time. Only the weirdos in the audience began to whisper uneasily.

Something is wrong, very wrong.

It was like... the judge, the prosecutor, the jury were all from Montana.

Do not--

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Reid subconsciously moved his arms but was held down by Erika Satonaka.

"He is seeking the desires and self-esteem that humans deserve. Do you want to stop him?"

Red opened his mouth, he felt like he should say something but the sound was stuck in his throat and he couldn't get out a single syllable no matter how hard he tried.

Let young women be proud of being defiled by weirdos, and let young men be proud of pleasing weirdos.

Montana is telling the truth.

"I am indeed guilty, because I retreated when I should have sought dignity for humanity and told all the weirdos that humans have dignity. They can easily kill us today, but they can never kill our dignity."

“So here I stand.”

“I’m the only one standing here.”

“And I have to stand here.”

Montana raised his voice sharply.

"For thousands of years, humans have been the masters of this earth!"

"It is human civilization that makes the earth glorious! It is human civilization! Not the weirdos. They have done nothing for us! They even treat us as prey for fun and kill us just for fun. Why can such weirdos take away the fruits and power that humans have worked hard for thousands of years and left for future generations as a matter of course?"

"Because, the monsters are stronger than us? Smarter than us? Then... why have they been disguised as humans for thousands of years? Why, they only dare to show their existence in [S·L] after [S·L] was born?"

"Because they are just a bunch of pathetic, cowardly parasites who rely on humans for their survival!"

Being described as pathetic and cowardly parasites, the weirdos in the audience naturally couldn't stand it anymore and stood up one after another wanting to kill Montana directly, but as soon as they transformed into weirdos, they felt weak and collapsed one after another.

"They are just a bunch of parasites. They are not our enemies at all. Our enemies are among us."

Montana raised his hand and pointed at the camera, his eyes extremely deep.

"They spared no effort to allow parasites to ride on the human race."

"The king of the Fang Ghost Tribe can kill three outstanding scientists every year. They can make human life better, but they become the victims of what they call peace."

"The Gurongi openly slaughtered humans as if they were NPCs in the game, but they were called the unlucky ones caught in the natural disaster."

"In less than a decade, hundreds of millions of lives have been lost in [S·L] and the number is still rising."

"Less than ten years! Hundreds of millions of people! Enough to start a war that can change the world and make it a better place!"

"Because no shots were fired, no one cared how many people died. Do you know how they describe it?"

“It boosted fertility.”

"This is really weird... Isn't this describing a breeding farm?!"

Montana raised his hand and slammed it heavily on the defendant's guardrail, his eyes full of bloodshot, like a devil from hell, but in the eyes of some people, Montana's whole body was glowing.

"Give the pigs a comfortable environment and enough food, let them produce as much as they want, and then enjoy them. But they! Now they are not even willing to give us a comfortable environment and enough food! Let us work hard to live on our own!"

"And every day, every day, every day! The peace constructed with words makes our children foolishly jump onto the plates of weirdos! Become toys for weirdos to amuse themselves!"

“Humans are like a flock of pigeons. If one pigeon flies to the right, the others will follow suit. They will not think there is anything wrong even if there is a dead end ahead.”

"But this is not your fault. It is definitely not your fault. You were just praying for a happy life. What's wrong with praying for a happy life? What's wrong is... you betrayed them who you trusted!"

"And you! You are human beings! The human beings who created this civilization! You are living in this world and have the power to choose. No one has the power to ignore your existence, and now! I am here!"

"Humans are the masters of this world, and monsters are just pigs kept in [S·L]!"

"They cannot live without [S·L]. Only in [S·L] can they dare to show their existence. But we, humans, can proudly say that we are human no matter where we are."