Hellbents
Chapter 178: Black and White or Gray?
"Look, you look so mean! Expel the person who just escaped two traumatic events alone!" Although a quiet awkward atmosphere covered their entourage, Adam was noisy next to Ava.
"He's just going to be a burden" he whispered softly, Ava's position was at the very back to guard their backs
"Ugh, it's true! But my God, you look like you have a personal grudge against that girl!"
"Not true."
"Really!
"He's an unbelievable person, you heard the story yourself."
"All I hear is a cry that lasts up to an hour after the story is over."
"Do you believe in crocodile tears?"
"I'm sure that crocodiles can't cry for an hour! The girl was really sad and shaken!"
"Why are you defending him?!" out of control, Ava's voice strikes Siwon, Queen Isabel, and River in front of her. "Um, what's wrong, Rin-His Majesty?"
"A mosquito's been bothering me from earlier."
Ava still saw doubts in their spotlight, but fortunately no one wanted to ask further.
Honey, Adam's not done yet.
"I'm not defending him. But sometimes .. someone is forced to do something he hates because of circumstances."
"If they really hate it, they shouldn't have done it in the first place."
"But if it's forced-"
"Is it forced? Or is he just too cowardly to bear the consequences later?"
No one wants to give up.
"... A coward?"
"If it has already happened, then what? If he's sorry, regret it all for life. Don't use it to find justification or pity."
"Pity coin? You also saw that the girl was almost scrapped"
"If he still refuses to admit his guilt when a toddler and his mother are killed by a village man, why is the matter between the girl and Count Couliy my responsibility?"
"Rather practical."
"Squeaky."
Ava's quiet.
"Sugary."
Adam continues his line of insults.
"Cold."
"You don't want to be quiet?"
"That toddler is the "black goat" defined by the [System]! If they don't do it, they'll get stuck in that gate!"
And Adam brought their argument back to square one.
"He never fully explained his mission. No one in the story said they could only come out if they sacrificed "black sheep"! It could be the gate that releases the player by itself when time runs out. They could have all survived without killing each other and consequently only a few contribution points."
If you remember, Ava was right. This time Adam who was silent, could not argue.
"And going back to my first point, that girl would just be a burden. We can't keep accepting people when trapped in an environment with limited resources."
The ghost contemplates Ava's words, into her own situation.
Was it forced before?
Did he actually have a chance to argue?
... Did he subconsciously fight for the foreign girl's perspective because of the projection of himself?
Adam, a man enslaved by Eve and locked up in a laboratory under a lake on a remote island filled with monsters.
Adam, Eve's assistant while working on various experiments that all the results shocked the world.
Adam, the perpetrator of a mass murder on the basis of alchemy, magic, and artifacts.
The lives of hundreds of people are floating because of his hands. But because of that, he and Eve managed to make an antidote to the Uflaria outbreak, EXP multiplier, anesthetic powder, and many more.
His sins are collected in a journal book that is now locked in Ava's inventory.