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Chapter 1044 Shock

 Late night time.

　　The howling cold wind blew through the window. Everyone was lying on the bed. Although they were exhausted, they couldn't fall asleep. They had obviously experienced a day of turbulent waves and turbulent waves, but now their spirits were still extremely excited and they could not sleep no matter what.

“…Mio, are you still awake?”

 “Rias-senpai didn’t sleep either?”

Hearing Rias's voice, Naruse Mio also spoke.

"can not fall asleep……"

"Me too... To be honest, I really feel like what are we doing now..."

Mio Naruse muttered to herself and looked at the ceiling in front of her, not knowing what to say for a moment. To be honest, everything they have experienced since they were brought to the Antarctic by Duanmu Huai is more unreal than a dream for Naruse Mio. She feels like she has spent a crazy day in an amusement park. Now lying on the bed, she finally calmed down and returned to reality.

 “Did we fight the monster?”

 “That’s right, alien monsters.”

 “It seems so.”

 Who is Teacher Duanmu? What kind of organization is the Tribunal?

Rias felt that she had never been so curious as she is now. In other words, although she had always been curious about the existence of Duanmu Huai and the Tribunal, before that, she only thought that it might be some ancient hidden organization in the human power. , or some mysterious religious groups that don't show up on weekdays.

 “And we went to an alien planet?”

 “I don’t think we are dreaming.”

Thinking of this, Rias suddenly felt a sense of fear and trembling for no reason. At this moment, she was really lucky that the Tribunal appeared here after the three-party war had ended. You know, if it had been hundreds of years ago, when angels, fallen angels and demons were fighting, it would probably be a different story.

　　　…………”

 “That’s right.”

 It’s that simple.

“And uncle also blew up that planet?”

　　　…………”

“I see, the creatures that don’t have human skulls…are referring to alien creatures…”

The opponent can easily destroy a planet with just a few movements - although Rias doesn't know how Duanmuhuai did it, at least she did witness this scene with her own eyes.

The two asked and answered questions, and then fell into silence.

Rias shook her head desperately to throw these random thoughts out of her mind. Not only Rias, but others also had mixed feelings. It's not that they don't know that Duanmu Huai has great strength, but... when the opponent has reached the scale of the universe, it is completely different from the level they are at.

Although Rias has not experienced that war, she has also read historical records. At that time, angels, fallen angels and demons fought with each other, and other races were also involved. Especially humans. At that time, many humans supported the three major forces and killed each other.

 “Is this reality?”

 That's right, because alien aliens were discovered that posed a threat to mankind, they were completely destroyed.

Rias sighed silently. Although she had imagined the strength of the Inquisition several times, Rias never imagined that the Inquisition actually possessed such a level of power even if she wanted to. To be honest, this is no longer a level that angels, demons and the like can deal with.

 Destroy a planet?

Angels can’t do it, and the devil probably can’t do it either...Why do such people exist among humans?

  No, humans in this world don’t have this kind of power, right? Of course, Rias didn't know much about the situation of human society, but no matter how she thought about it, she didn't think that the current human beings had this level of technological civilization. So is the Tribunal, like those superior demon nobles, using the products of prehistoric civilization excavated from some ruins... No, no, it's getting more and more ridiculous the more I think about it.

But it was obvious that the Tribunal was not like this. After recalling the alien creatures she had seen again, Rias suddenly had a deeper understanding of the system of the Tribunal.

While muttering to herself, Rias recalled Duanmu Huai's attitude when he issued the extermination order. There was no hatred, no anger, and no hatred. It was as calm as if a cleaner saw a cockroach nest and subconsciously cleaned it up with insecticide. The whole process revealed a kind of skill and calmness, as if it was just a simple job.

 If the Inquisition knew...

 “Well, let’s purify it.”

Rias could even easily imagine the scene where Duanmu Huai calmly gave the order and then completely wiped out the three parties.

 But this raises a question.

 That is...when did the Inquisition appear? Are they an organization of this world?

Rias is very doubtful now. After all, judging from the Tribunal's behavior, if they existed during the three-party war, they would definitely kill the angels, fallen angels and demons without hesitation. But the fact is that they did not appear until the end of the three-party war. In other words, the Tribunal only appeared after the three-party war ended. Although it is not impossible that the Tribunal was established after this, Rias' intuition believes that the Tribunal may not be an organization in this world.

After all, they can even move in the universe, and Rias remembers clearly that when she set up an isolation barrier to deal with the giant monster, she heard the conversation between Duanmu Huai and Mary. At that time, Mary once said, "If the battleship is in If so, there would be no problem in dealing with this kind of monster..."

Thinking about it now, she was definitely not talking about the battleship in the water.

 “Mio.”

 “What’s the matter? Senior Rias?”

“Have Teacher Duanmu told you about the Tribunal?”

“He did say something... To be honest, before today, I thought those were just fairy tales and legends..."

Naruse Mio also answered blankly. Of course, she had received the basic system teaching of the Tribunal, but at that time, Naruse Mio only felt like she was listening to stories about alien aliens, heretics who believed in evil gods, and what happened in Asia. She only thought that things like the demon race in space were like the Bible or something like that, just myths and legends.

 But now, when she witnessed all this with her own eyes, those stories that originally sounded very unrealistic suddenly turned into cold reality and were slapped directly on her face.

 “I feel a little scared.”

At this moment, the kitten, who had been silent all this time, suddenly intervened.

"So many... people were wiped out without saying a word... I feel that the teacher is so scary."

"Well, uncle is not a bad person...at least he does fight to protect mankind."

 Naruse Mio defended Duanmu Huai. She could also understand why Tacheng Kitten suddenly said this. After all, they all saw the way Duanmu Huai issued an extermination order. Whether it is compassion or anger or hatred, at least it shows that this is an emotion. But Duanmuhuai acted calmly as if it was a simple job. He really didn't regard those countless alien creatures as life at all.

 That's right, in the words of the Inquisition, they are lowly alien hybrids.

"But...I still feel scared. Even if those alien creatures really want to invade humans, it would be too much to completely eliminate them like this..."

 The kitten hesitated for a moment, as if thinking about how to describe it.

 “Too much?”

 “This is not something we can interfere with.”

Rias decisively interrupted the discussion.

"The Inquisition has its own policies. We may have questions about this, but at least for now, we have no conflict with the Inquisition, and there is no basis for conflict. Are you right? Mio?"

"Ah, that's the case, at least for now...According to the standards of the Tribunal, my uncle doesn't particularly care about demons transforming humans."

Mio Naruse once asked Duanmuhuai whether things like demons using demon chess pieces to transform humans into demons were considered a violation of the rules of the Tribunal. After thinking for a moment, Duanmu Huai told her that so far, the demon's behavior has not caused harm to humans, because the number of demon chess pieces is limited, and the humans transformed into demons have not carried out any large-scale killings of humans. , of course, there are certain stray demons, but these stray demons just need to be dealt with.

And the important thing is that even if the human skull is transformed into a demon, there will be no mutation, so there will be no problem.

If you want to say that having wings is considered an alien, then you have to turn Sanguinius into braised chicken wings first.

 So from this point of view, Duanmuhuai is quite tolerant of the angels, fallen angels and demons in this world.

 After all, we can't dig Sanguinius's grave. Even for the Inquisition, this would be too much.

 “Okay, go to sleep.”

Rias stopped the discussion.

 “After all, everyone has been tired for a long day.”

 “I hope I don’t have nightmares at night.”

Even now, as soon as Naruse Mio closes her eyes, the scene where the cute penguin waddles up to her, then its whole head splits open, and tentacles come out of it and attacks her. . At that time, Naruse Mio was really frightened. Fortunately, the basic training that Fulilian had been asking her to repeat allowed Naruse Mio's body to reflexively release the magic barrier before her consciousness could react. , otherwise Naruse Mio really couldn't imagine what she would become.

To be honest, she felt that this would become her own psychological shadow.

 In the past, Naruse Mio still liked penguins, but now - she felt that she might not be able to like this cute creature anymore.

 (End of this chapter)