I said you are all war criminals

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Chapter 72 Xiangzi: Exploded!

Xiangzi rushed into Bai Ye's office, and the door slammed against the wall, shaking several half-demon rights advocacy posters hanging on the wall.

Today’s wildfires are no longer organizations hidden under the surface, but international organizations like the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Their current mission is to provide guidance on laws related to half-demons and to help those who are persecuted in various countries. Thanks to their good reputation, other countries are not too embarrassed to refuse their intervention.

In fact, Hakuno is now more like a leader of an international organization rather than a radical person with his eyes on the future.

"You're here again."

Hakuno was not surprised by Xiangzi's sudden intrusion.

Over the past two years, Xiangzi has approached Hakuno more than once to voice his opinion on improving the treatment of half-demons. However, each time Hakuno responds with words like "the time is not right" or "this won't work." This time, he anticipates the same outcome.

"Look at this!"

Xiangzi threw a document on Bai Ye's desk, causing the pen to roll to the edge of the table and almost fall off.

"Yesterday, in New York City, a half-demon girl was besieged by a group of human children because the tip of her tail was exposed. She was eventually forced to jump into the river! A half-demon shop owner had his shop smashed because he refused to give a drunk human a discount! And, and..."

Xiangzi was breathing heavily, his chest heaving violently like an enraged lioness.

Bai Ye picked up the document, glanced at it, and put it down. He then said lightly: "These are just individual cases, Xiangzi, you need to calm down."

"An isolated case? What isolated case?"

Xiangzi slammed the table so hard that the documents on it jumped up.

"This is already the twenty-third case in New York this week! You're sitting here in this comfortable office, so of course you can say it's an isolated case! Go and see what those half-demons who are hiding and living in fear every day think!"

"Xiangzi!"

Hakuno's voice rose a bit, but he still maintained that irritating calmness.

"I know you're angry, but we can't be impulsive right now. Wildfires are now an international issue, and our every move is being watched by the whole world. The radical plans you propose are simply not feasible."

"It won't work? Why didn't you tell us it wouldn't work when we were wanted by all the countries and hunted by those mysterious organizations? Now that we have a little bit of fame, you've become timid and cowardly!"

Xiangzi slammed the table and said, "We must severely punish those who caused the crime and send them to the execution ground!"

"Xiangzi, calm down!"

Bai Ye's expression remained gentle. "I understand how you feel, but we can't act the way we did before! Wildfire now represents the interests of all half-demons, and we must consider the overall situation. Your radical plans will only make us the target of public criticism again, and then all our previous efforts will be wasted."

"The bigger picture? Does the bigger picture mean we turn a blind eye to these injustices? Does the bigger picture mean we wag our tails like dogs and beg for mercy, begging humans for a few pitiful 'rights'?"

Xiangzi clenched his fists.

"... Xiangzi, we are also human beings, and half-demons are also human beings."

Bai Ye's expression turned a little uglier. "Don't talk about us and humans. We are humans."

"You know that's not what I meant,"

Xiangzi let go of her hand. She also realized her mistake and quickly made amends, "You know, I was talking about them. They don't regard us as human beings, and I'm afraid they will never regard us as human beings..."

"I know,"

Bai Ye comforted Xiangzi, "But you have to understand that we are not children anymore. We have to consider more things."

"So what should we do? Continue to swallow our anger and watch our compatriots being oppressed?"

Xiangzi sat dejectedly in his chair, his voice low and hoarse, like a wounded beast, "This doesn't make sense at all. We...we..."

Bai Ye walked over to her and patted her shoulder gently, as if soothing a furry cat.

"I know you're upset, and I'm upset too. But we can't give up hope. We need to find a balance that protects our compatriots without causing unrest."

He paused, took a deep breath, and continued, "I have contacted representatives from several countries and plan to convene an international conference to discuss the protection of half-demon rights. I will do my best to get more people to understand and accept us."

Xiangzi raised his head and said weakly, "Is this really useful? I always feel that we are doing useless work."

"It's better than doing nothing,"

Bai Ye continued to gently rub Xiangzi's shoulders, "Xiangzi, do you still remember our original dream?"

"...Of course I remember."

Xiangzi's voice was filled with bitterness, "It's all for the lamp."

Yes, after all, all this is for the dead Takamatsu Touma.

In order to prevent anyone in the world from dying like a lamp, Hakuno and Shoko formed Wildfire and wasted their lives on this meaningless career.

"Think about it, at least no one is conducting inhumane human experiments on half-demons anymore like they did before... Although we've sparked discrimination against half-demons among ordinary people, this discrimination is just like racial discrimination; it's inevitable."

“These things happen in the world.”

"Skin color, nationality, place of residence... these things, like being a half-demon, can lead to discrimination. We can't eliminate all discrimination in the world, but we can do our best to ensure that half-demon have the same basic rights as ordinary people."

Hakuno said, “There are limits to what we can do.”

Hakuno paused for a long moment before continuing, "Besides, the world is gradually getting better. One day, half-demons will no longer be discriminated against... maybe by our children's generation, or maybe by our children's children's generation."

Xiangzi was silent for a long time. Bai Ye looked at her and felt that the indomitable spirit in Xiangzi was rising again. She was like a lioness who had been cornered, ready to bare her fangs for her pack.

"I don't want to wait for decades or even hundreds of years,"

She spoke each word with great emphasis, each one hammering like a nail into Hakuno's heart. "I want this generation to see half-demons and humans on equal footing."

Hakuno sighed, "Half-demons are human too."

He repeated it again.

And this time, Xiangzi answered like this.

"No, it's us and them."

Xiangzi said in a resolute tone.

"We are not human, we are monsters."

——Just one month later.

Toyokawa Shoko launched a coup in Japan, ending the Bandai imperial bloodline and becoming the "Monster Emperor".

Japan has become a country of demons.

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Chapter 73 Hong Xia: numb.

Hongxia is numb.

She saw Toyokawa Shoko's "monster reform" on the news.

Even though Hakuno's actions had become much more restrained since that fight, Hongxia had thought her life would be more stable this time around. After all, while Hakuno's actions had indeed caused a lot of chaos, that chaos was over. Even if Hakuno secretly still wanted to revive Deng, it wouldn't be that dangerous.

Yes, Hongxia thought she was safe this time.

...What is Xiangzi doing crazy again?

"Why don't you stop Xiangzi!"

This time it was Hong Xia who rushed in and slammed the table.

"Don't you know this will damage Wildfire's reputation? Everyone knows that Toyokawa Shoko is Wildfire's vice chairman!"

Wildfire has a chairman and five vice-chairmen. Bai Ye is of course the chairman, while Xiangzi and Hongxia are both vice-chairmen... As the vice-chairman, Xiangzi did such an outrageous thing, which will definitely greatly damage the reputation of Wildfire.

"I can't stop Xiangzi."

Hakuno said helplessly, "Don't you know how much Golden God water Xiangzi drank? She and Kanesada had a good relationship. A lot of the water from the Golden God's remains we have in our hands was allocated to Xiangzi."

"The Xiangzi of today is probably not much different from the Shuten-doji of the past."

Half-demons can awaken through the Golden God Water Vein, and continuing to ingest the Golden God Water after awakening can gradually increase the concentration of their blood.

Xiangzi, who ingested a large amount of the Golden God's Water, can be said to be the resurrection of an ancient demon.

"Besides, Xiangzi is also a chef... Originally, she was still stuck on becoming a Dragon Chef. But Erina sent me news a few days ago. After taking down the Emperor, Xiangzi's thoughts became clear and she has become a Dragon Chef. I'm afraid she is one of the best Dragon Chefs."

Hakuno continued, "Shoko wants to hold a nationwide banquet to awaken all the half-demons in Japan at once... That would be a complete demon country. We can't stop Shoko on our own."

Hong Xia became angrier the more she listened.

She put her hands on the table and roared from the bottom of her lungs.

"Isn't it your job to stop her before things get to this point? Hakuno, what the hell are you doing?!"

Bai Ye slumped in the chair, rubbing his temples. "Do you think I didn't want to stop her? Xiangzi...she's gone crazy. She feels that decades are too long, she can't wait any longer, she wants to change everything immediately."

Hongxia bit her lip.

Bai Ye smiled bitterly, "What do you want me to do? Tie her up? Lock her in the basement? She's my partner, my... friend. I can't do it."

"Let's talk again,"

Bai Ye suppressed his smile and said, "It may not be a bad thing."

Hong Xia looked at him in disbelief, "What did you say? Are you crazy? This isn't a bad thing?"

Hakuno said softly.

"Think about it, now there is a country in the world that openly supports half-demons and provides them with asylum. What will happen?"

His voice became louder. "Where will those persecuted half-demons, those half-demons with nowhere to go, go? They will come to Japan! Japan will become the holy land of all half-demons, the hope of all half-demons!"

Hong Xia was stunned. She opened her mouth but couldn't say anything.

She realized something.

"You... you knew Xiangzi would control Japan?"

In the conversation just now, Hakuno kept saying that he couldn't stop Xiangzi, not that he didn't know Xiangzi would do this.

Hong Xia took a deep breath, and her chest heaved violently like a volcano about to erupt.

"You...you knew it a long time ago?"

She pointed at Hakuno, her fingers trembling, her voice slightly distorted with anger, "Did you know Xiangzi would become like this? Did you know that she would... turn all of Japan into a country of demons?"

Bai Ye didn't avoid Hong Xia's gaze, but just sighed tiredly and agreed.

"Yes."

He answered briefly.

"Then why don't you stop her!"

Hong Xia slammed the table with a loud bang, causing the teacups on the table to jump up. "Do you know how much chaos this will cause? Do you know how many people will die?"

"The reason has just been stated."

Bai Ye said, "Do you really want me to tell you from the beginning again?"

You asked Hong Xia, "How many times do I have to explain myself before you're satisfied?"

Hakuno did know what Xiangzi would do.

Some of you may have forgotten this, so let me mention it again. During this simulation, Hakuno can constantly see Shoko's actions and choices. From those choices, it seems Shoko is gradually being crushed by the weight of his own heart, forced to choose actions that will yield results "now."

...Compared to the last time they simulated together, Xiangzi might have been a little too involved.

Hakuno had no idea what was going on with the people involved in the simulation, but since Xiangzi had committed, he let him go for it. In reality, the equipment for demonizing all of humanity on the moon had already been built, but to ensure Xiangzi's smooth function, he had delayed the activation of the Moon Eye.

This is worth it.

Xiangzi really couldn't hold it in any longer, so he went home and took it down from Japan.

"As expected, Xiangzi can't accept these things. Oh, high school students are so idealistic, they actually want to get everything in one go..."

Hakuno couldn't help but laugh.

The only way to eliminate discrimination in the first generation is to kill everyone on either side at once. Hakuno definitely doesn't want to solve any discrimination issues; he just treats everyone the same, that's all.

However, if Xiangzi could really eliminate discrimination in Japan, he would praise Xiangzi without hesitation.

You continue to defend Xiangzi.

"Xiangzi...she knows her limits."