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Past Arc ⑰

「Let us eat」

After Sariel spoke the grace before ed on the table It rowth period, that mealtimes could be likened to a battlefield However, here the food was predetermined in each case, so there was no scrarowth period that would often lead to ss of dissatisfaction, but here it was strictly forbidden to steal food from the other children Even if they did so, they wouldn’t be allowed to eat it The reason being, is that the children here were dealing with unique circuly their food was coed by Sariel To be precise, it was both an orphanage and a hospital at the sae, were test subjects froe for the sake of the children taken into care from the research institutions that Potimas had scattered all over the place, to care for them and to treat the beings created using humans as a base, mixed with various plants and ani ones

As a result of police forces searching Potimas’s research institutions, it was established that there were many humans who had been subject to experiments Most of them had lost their lives Those where the experiment ended in failure, those ere a success but were short lived, and those who died when subjected to further experiments In the experimental results, the fate of the victims was dispassionately recorded They truly were treated like laboratory animals, their lives literally toyed with

The ones cared for at the orphanage, were the children who ed to survive Nevertheless, in order to deal with experimental after-effects and the handicaps that they were born with, they were looked after in an orphanage that was combined with a medical institution At the same time, it was also to keep the children hidden froreen skin A girl with slightly pointed ears A girl with scales on her body It wasa different outward appearance to normal

With Potimas’s disappearance, the whole world came to know that he had been placed on the wanted list Then, the contents of his research also started leaking out frost the public From false rumours to valid facts, a st those ru ree, and also incorrect to a certain degree In truth, there were chi hu various anist theons as they had dragonic elements supplied from who knohere inserted into the they did display high combat abilities, and an incident occurred where the police who raided a laboratory were erated rumours combined to rush out The proble children could also be compromised There were humorous rumours of children with bizarre for about creepy ghost stories

The people spreading such rumours weren’t malicious Because they never actually believed that such children really existed They were just exaggerating ru about incredulous tales However, the children ere victims of experie enough physical elements to be called bizarre, mere rumours had in fact become reality If the world found out about thereater or lesser degree For that very reason, the children were only acknowledged to exist to sympathetic people, and kept secret from the world

Sariel took the initiative to take care of those children Since the Sariel Society had lost their biggest donor in Foddway, the scope of their activities became noticeably reduced However, because of that and another major factor, Sariel had found it necessary to hide herself as well Thus, she worked at the orphanage

The reason why Sariel ended up having to go into hiding, was due to her opposition to MA Energy Potimas who had since disappeared, was the one who announced the theory of MA Energy According to that, it was possible to create endless a exhausted, and it was also extremely simple to achieve In addition, the world was also astonished by the announcement of a way to achieve evolution of the huy was so the very life force of the planet itself The word “god” is a generic ter by that theory, planets can also be called a species of god Vast ay that can’t be y is the very life force of the planet itself, and if it is exhausted the planet will die MA Energy was the energy of the planet, and the act of using it,the life of the planet

Iy theory, Sarielthe truth of it However, it wasn’t accepted While part of the probley, the biggest probley was seen as a y and that nobody except Potiardless of the theory, nobody even knehy such energy would gush forth In other words, while she did y, it wasn’t possible to verify her state correct Unfortunately, various researchers also made statements about their own personal opinions on the true nature of MA Energy, and Sariel’s statement was taken as simply another opinion In addition, Sariel was the head of a charitable organisation Since she wasn’t a researcher or anything like one, almost nobody considered her to be credible On the contrary, she was treated as a deranged person spouting thoughtless words

Part of the reason for that, was that the Dragon Religion had ests, the Dragon Religion is a group that worships the dragons However, due to the Tragedy of Tetmaia and more, people considered it to be coeneral population considered people who believed in dragons to be deranged Having made the same announcement as such a bunch, people viehat the Sariel Society said with suspicion In spite of it being the truth

Even so, Sariel assiduously advocated the dangers of MA Energy Sariel ell aware of what could happen if it was used She tried everything she could to try to persuade people that they absolutely must stop However, it was to no avail

Then, a faction that strongly supported the use of MA Energy, started to harass Sariel asletters were sent to her house When even that did not stop Sariel, they went as far as sending assassins While Sariel wouldn’t ever die fro incidents of people unrelated to the Sariel Society being attacked, Sariel was forced to restrain her activities Over the fate of the world, Sariel chose the safety of the people close to her She couldn’t be bla the occasion to hide herself, Sariel took care of the children While she could hear the approaching destruction come closer moment by moment, it was also a time of peace