The Outer God Needs Warmth-Chapter 252: Will cruelty ultimately win? (2)

If the Fourth World is running smoothly, the Third World has a slightly different atmosphere.

No, to be precise, there's nothing particularly different about the Third World itself.

Now, the country captures illegal foreign entrants into the capital and sends them back to their respective countries by train.

And all the people in the capital are in favor of this action.

It was just one simple statement.

"If the number of foreigners increases, there won't be enough food to feed them until harvest time."

In order to survive, if a foreigner is spotted, they are caught and immediately taken to the train station.

Then, the police take them and put them on the train.

And that's when people die.

In an attempt to avoid capture, they fight back and end up getting beaten to death, or they try to escape while being transported and jump off the train tracks, only to die on the spot.

And if it happens outside the city, the people who go to clean up are usually from the Brightshin slums.

If left unattended, the monsters that learned the taste of human flesh may start attacking people frequently.

These unpleasant jobs are done by the poor, so I often learn about it.

Meanwhile, in the area I frequent, such things hardly ever happen.

The Royal Academy and the surrounding areas are already guarded by soldiers instead of police, and the area I live in is frequently patrolled by the police.

If they spot someone suspicious, they immediately take them away.

But despite this, the country is still managing to welcome the coming spring somewhat.

Because it's a place where the weather is mild year-round, even in winter when it should be snowing, it rains instead. So by spring, crops can already be grown and harvested.

I know this because the place where Morris and Beatrice live is a rural area.

In the first place, villages that can be self-sufficient were not affected, but there are many merchants who come to buy food, so I often hear about it through Beatrice.

Beatrice is so sharp in these matters that even Morris’s parents eventually started treating her better than Morris, which is really amusing.

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As food production increases, the overall situation is improving. In other words, the shock from the incident where the winding machines were destroyed is gradually recovering.

The external attachment tools that spread from the capital are especially helpful.

Yes. They're Daegon’s technology.

It’s not completely new technology; it’s just a slight modification of existing technology, which is why it spread quickly.

If you are reading this translation anywhere other than Novelight.net or SilkRoadTL, it has been stolen.

Furthermore, it was revealed that it’s not only humans who can use this technology, but creatures with magical power can also be used, which led to the birth of a new industry.

Originally, monster hunters, who hunted monsters for protection or for meat or certain materials, suddenly found themselves in the energy industry as well.

Thus, the people of this world are slowly changing. They are not returning to their original way of life by risking danger, but instead adapting to the current situation.

How that will change, I’m not sure yet.

The wind-up knight school, which collapsed due to a riot, is being rebuilt, but it will be at least next year or the year after before it can open again.

By then, a lot of things will have changed.

To summarize simply:

The effects of the social upheaval are still lingering, but a new era is coming.

And in the gap, the harvest season is seeping in.

The people in Brightshin, who had been working with the machines based on the memories I provided.

When Daegon’s machines became popular, people started recruiting them from various places. Among them were large companies, and even the royal family.

Some of the military weapons have already been equipped with power units that were problematic, and they’ve been replaced with life-force-using devices and deployed.

They’re using such equipment in the Atlan Fortress City. Since monster attacks are a reality, people are quick to accept it.

If they don’t use it, people die.

Also, the three harvesters from Brightshin were kidnapped under the guise of being hired at a research facility, and they’ve been working there all day. I guess you can get the idea.

They’re paid a huge salary, but they cry while working, saying they don’t have time to spend it.

Ah.

And there’s one more change.

“I’m so depressed...”

Victoria Bet is slumped over on the desk next to me.

Exactly yesterday. The 15th day after the new semester started.

After class that day, Victoria suddenly came to see me.

“Let’s talk.”

I remember that the entire class went silent at that moment. Then, Victoria pulled me to a corner of the Royal Academy’s garden.

And she poured out all her emotions.

She said she was scared of me, that I had left her hometown without saying anything, that she didn’t expect me to leave just like that, so she was hurt, and that she was scared about whether we were really close or if it was all just terrifying.

And in the end, she said she was talking to me because she was afraid everyone would disappear in front of her.

Then, after crying alone, I teased her, calling her a fool.

At that, she hugged me and messed up my clothes. After comforting her and patting her, she mumbled for a while, her face turning bright red, and then ran off to her dorm.

And the next day, today.

She immediately changed her attitude, just like last year.

Humans...

Then Polaris was grinning next to me, poking Victoria’s cheek.

“I told you, didn’t I? Stop doing useless things.”

“Shut up.”

Victoria waved her arm.

By the way, the time now is in the afternoon.

If it were last year, except for weekends, it would have been time to go home, but since we’ve moved up a grade, classes have increased, and two days a week we have class until evening.

In other words, it’s break time now.

There are almost no students left in the classroom. The ones left are either students who are more inclined to be alone or just students who really want to rest. And there are students like Victoria, who have no intention of belonging anywhere.

Most of the students went to the rooms on both wings of the building, which is shaped like a “D.”

In the center, there’s the main classroom, and on both sides, there are empty rooms. If the number of students tripled, they’d turn those into classrooms too, but that’s not the case right now.

So, the students are taking one of those empty rooms and using it as their own space.

Kanna also had one of those rooms as her space. The reason it’s in the past tense is that the power hierarchy shifted suddenly, and Kanna is no longer using that room.

There are some people who feel sorry for her, but Kanna says it’s more comfortable this way. Apparently, the largest space at the ends of the wings was meant to be occupied by someone of higher rank according to some unspoken rules.

If you don’t enter in order, it can cause a fight, so people just went in and managed it.

I heard Kanna likes the freedom.

If Kanna is free, then someone else must be taking her place.

There’s a system like that, so a student from a different country took her spot.

Apparently, there’s an official system where there are rankings by country, and depending on where you are in the hierarchy, your position changes.

Also, the ranking system is variable, which is really picky in the upper class.

Princess Aurora, from this country?

She’s in a completely different building from her brother, Solindigus.

In a country with strong royal authority, nobles and royalty can’t be in the same building, right? Some corporations that once tried to surpass royal power were destroyed by the backlash.

So, in a way, everyone is spending a curious school life.

And sometimes, people who make the wrong move just drop out of the scene.

And sometimes, even people who didn’t make a mistake just disappear.

Although he came from a rather small country, a boy who was once a prince of a kingdom suddenly stopped being a prince overnight.

I heard that he had expelled the winding machines, and the country faced a severe backlash, which caused the lower classes to start a rebellion.

To stop that, they borrowed the military from another country, and the country that wasn’t on good terms with them sent its military to the other side.

The result of this chaotic battle was that the royal family lost, and he was no longer a prince.

But when a country falls, I thought a prince would just fall to a commoner, but surprisingly, that’s not the case.

Another country recognized him as a noble.

I couldn’t understand why, but memories from the leadership side shine. It turns out that by absorbing that, you can later claim the region as your own.

It wasn’t a kingdom, but a territory ruled by someone’s family. Since that person submitted to me, it’s now part of my country.

Something like that?

If it weren’t for the current situation, where there are so many people from different countries, he probably would’ve been sold somewhere by now, I remember.

I didn’t think it would work, since he’s a man, not a woman, but apparently, regardless of gender, wealth and power are materials that can be used effectively in places where family isn’t really important.

The idea...

Anyway, he’s now wandering around, wondering where he can get the highest price for himself.

That’s the most interesting news right now.

What’s so interesting?

Other students find it amusing that he’s wandering around, but what’s interesting to me is another part.

The country was overthrown.

How much blood must have been spilled?

And if the harvest season had been there, how much warmth could have been harvested?

If I had gotten all of that, it would have been so warm. Really.

This part is regretful.

If I had acted a little more wisely, could I have obtained warmth from the people who would have died during the corporate panic?

No. I shouldn’t be greedy. Calm down. I need to calm down.

Think about it.

Because I stayed still, the harvest season is slowly seeping into the world, right?

And Daegon’s and the Ancient Heavenly Sovereign’s techniques are also spreading.

It may seem foolish, but let’s go about it passively. Moreover, this is how the preparations for obtaining warmth from the Fourth World are proceeding step by step, right?

“Bell. Did something good happen?”

At that moment, Victoria suddenly asked me. Victoria must have seen my expression. Hmm. Do I look happy?

I can’t really read my own expression. I touched my face.

“Does it show?”

“Yeah. It really shows. What’s going on?”

“I think it’s going to get warmer, so I feel good.”

At my ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) words, Victoria nodded.

“Yeah. Since it’s spring, it’s going to get a little warmer.”

“I wish it would stay colder...”

Polaris mumbled from the side. This bear-like girl is strong against the cold. She looks like a baby bear, but she can tear people apart.

I saw it firsthand last fall.

The Third World.

Spring is slowly coming to the city where I live.