Chapter 925 – Everyone’s Judgment

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Dandelion fell down after being hit in the chin by a strong punch.

Just as Cleon wanted, he succeeded in showing an overwhelming gap in skill in a 1:1 situation.

The brain bouncing around in his shaking skull will prevent him from getting up from his seat for a while.

Cleon, who sighed and calmed his pulse and breathing, which had risen during the fight, turned his back and went back to his companions.

At that time.

“Oh. Is it over already?”

Suddenly, when he thought he heard a voice above his head, Cleon and his group all raised their heads and looked toward the transparent ceiling of the council chamber.

Then, there was the Fairy King Dorothea, hanging upside down, holding a box of popcorn in her hand and looking down with red and blue colored glasses on her eyes.

＂Dorothea… Before you know it.＂

No one here, including Cleon, noticed her presence until she made her voice.

Well, I’ve heard that it can suddenly appear anywhere.

Above all, it was an incomprehensible magic to hold an upside-down popcorn box, so none of its contents would fall out.

＂Magic to control gravity…? But in such a limited area…”

Lila tried to understand her magic, but the next moment, she realized that Dorothea had disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The next moment, Dorothea was standing right next to Dandelion’s head, who had fallen and could not get up.

＇Space movement without foreshadowing. Is this… Is it better to think of it as using some other ability rather than the level of magic…’

Every time Dorothea shows such absurd abilities, Lila’s head hurts as she has to analyze her abilities.

It would have been easy to figure out if there was something, like the flow of her magic power, but she just freaks out every time I see her, to the point where I feel resentful that she exists.

She was showing a variety of abilities that had never been seen before.

Dorothea was looking at the face of Dandelion who had fallen in front of her, whether she knew what Lila was thinking.

＂It’s just that. Did you lose? She confidently challenged this human to a fight…”

＂Road, Thea… I…＂

Dandelion was about to say something, but looking at him like that, she sighed loudly, ‘Haa’.

Cleon knew well what was mixed in her sigh.

It was just a sigh of disdain coming from deep within, mixed with disappointment.

“But… I want you three fairy nobles to get along forever and make this Fairy Village a fun place. That’s why division of roles is important. But, what is your role?”

＂… Using force… To eliminate… The fairy, the incense, the threat… ＂

Even with the shock to his head that Dandelion has yet to recover from, he answers questions about his role as if they were imprinted on his soul.

“That’s right. But what is this? When the demonic beasts run rampant, I am not there, so the response is delayed. “My precious people almost got hurt, right?”

＂That’s… I was called by someone…”

＂There. I got beaten up like this after being provoked by something that was obvious to anyone… Um… I guess it’s about time.”

Cutting her off without even listening to Dandelion’s excuse, she placed the heel of her foot on the ground, as if she was a little worried, and struck the ground with the front of her foot several times, as if she was keeping track of time. 〉

Every time that sound rang out, Dandelion’s expression seemed to slowly turn pale.

“The time has come. What is that-“

“Ah. I’m starting to think that it’s time for me to ‘reform’ the Fairy Council. There’s no law that says there have to be three fairy nobles forever, right?”

＂—＂

Dandelion, who understood what she meant, hurriedly tried to raise her body.

However, the damage to her brain does not recover in such a short time.

She had still been beaten, and it hadn’t even been five minutes since she collapsed.

Even if he tried to lift her body, it was natural that his limbs would not move as he wanted, and he was not even given the opportunity to kneel in front of Dorothea.

＂Ki, Darye, Dorothea.＂

“So I was wondering who it would be better to cut off… Yes, as expected, Dande is the most useless.”

＂…＂

And, as Dorothea smiled at Dandelion, she effectively sentenced him to death.

“You admit it to yourself, right?”

＂I, am, not yet…＂

“What. Self-evaluation is important in this case, but in the end, it is all about the evaluation of others. Then – should we do it like this?

The next moment, Dorothea snapped her fingers.

Dorothea’s throne in the Council Chamber disappears, and a magically created illusion appears in its place.

The welcome had the following sentence written in cute font.

[Emergency voting! Do you think Dandelion is doing a good job!?]

Underneath, there was a hollow shape of a stick, with ‘yes’ and ‘no’ written on both ends of the stick.

＂What… Is this?＂

Kuon mutters like that.

An illusion with the same sentence as the one shown to the party also appeared in front of Cleon and his party.

And that too, in front of each person.

Instead, there was no ‘stick’ in the illusion, but rather an oval shape with ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ written on it.

“Now, in front of all the intelligent beings in this fairy village, I displayed the same welcome.”

“What!? Even in front of people I can’t see or know where they are, welcome!?”

“Let’s ask people. Is Dandelion really useful or not? Since I am also a king, I should listen to the people, right?”

Although Lila was taken aback by Dorothea’s words, she quickly tried to concentrate on interpreting the magic in front of her.

‘What is this…!? There are so many unique construction methods that it’s almost impossible to use as a reference!? It can only be used several generations later than the magic we humans use… Wait-‘

When Lila’s thoughts reach that point, she thinks of the biggest difference between the ‘human world’ and the ‘fairy world’.

That is the difference in the flow of time, which goes 10 times faster than in the human world.

1 minute in the human world is 10 minutes in fairy village.

10 years in the human world is 100 years in Fairy Village.

It was inevitable that the ‘technology’ of fairies, who could be said to be the embodiment of concepts existing in the natural world, was slow to develop – but on the other hand, it would be different with magic.

In other words, the magic of the fairies developed, evolved, and converged at a rate 10 times faster than that of humans, and eventually changed into a form that humans could not understand.

‘There’s no way I can understand…’

Just because they speak the same language does not mean they are the same race.

Lila realized once again that fairies and humans were beings with different standards from the beginning.

“Surely… You are planning to decide Dandelion’s treatment through voting?”

＂Why, is it strange?＂

Dorothea smiles and looks back at Cleon.

However, Cleon closed his mouth for a moment and answered while looking at the vision of the dragon that appeared before his eyes.

“To be honest, I thought you would decide everything on your own.”

“You don’t have to be so honest!? Ha. Well, throwing away Dandelion, who fought for the Fairy Incense for 200 years, ‘because you think I’m useless’ is a bit pitiful, isn’t it?”

In response to Cleon’s answer, Dorothea spoke with a smile and looked down at Dandelion as if to say, ‘Really?’.

It was a situation that could be said to be an infighting between enemies, but honestly, I felt a little sorry for Dandelion.

Especially if you listen to Chopper’s story and understand their past.

However, because they thought it was a self-sufficiency, Cleon and the others moved their fingers.

I couldn’t tell which side each person chose – but if I touched the letters inside the illusion, the illusion would disappear.

And at the same time, the gaze of the group naturally shifted to the first illusion that appeared above the table.

The color was fluctuating inside the ‘bong’ that appeared below the emblem.

The color close to ‘yes’ is blue, and the color close to ‘no’ is red.

Centered around the center of the pole, blue and red colors invade and return to their respective territories, as if playing tug-of-war.

Dandelion had to just stare at the scene with blank eyes.

And just like that, about 3 minutes passed.

While Dandelion’s body was slowly becoming able to move, Dorothea twitched the corner of her mouth and spoke while looking at her illusion.

“It looks like the voting is over.”

＂Already?＂

Even though the ballot paper was thrust directly in front of you, you still need time to think.

“Huh? Even the sleeping fairies were forced to stand up and vote ‘honestly and without thinking.’ Of course, it’s fast.”

However, it seems that Dorothea not only forced the fairies to vote, but also asked them to vote on Dandelion’s evaluation while forbidding them to think.

If so, it was understandable that it was so fast.

“Now, shall we check the expected results?”

Like the rest of the group, Dorothea turns her gaze towards the large floating illusion.

Then, there-

The voting results showed an incredibly close race, with 50.1% saying ‘Yes’ and 49.9% saying ‘No’.

＂Haa… Haa…＂

Dandelion took a deep breath as he watched the scene.

The result was that there were slightly more ‘yes’ answers to the question ‘are you doing a good job?’.

That means that at least half of the fairies are expressing support for Dandelion.

“There were more supporters than I expected.”

Lila spoke as if she was surprised, and Amelia answered her quietly.

“His role is to protect the fairies from demonic beasts. I think there were quite a few fairies who helped him directly.”

＂Heroes like that are naturally more likely to receive support…＂

If you think about Aruru and Sir Percy, the answer comes naturally.

Those two people – especially the father, Sir Percy, were the shield that protected the kingdom and were warriors who played an active part in war, and were recognized as ‘heroes’ in the minds of many kingdom people.

The result was the trust and support the kingdom’s citizens gave them.

In other words, in the case of them and Dandelion, there may not have been that much of a difference in position.

It would be better to simply think that the reason Dandelion’s vote was so close was because of his personality.

“Look, look! Dorothea! The fairies of Fairy Village still need me! I am not useless…!”

＂Hmm…＂

Dorothea sounded so interested, and then she smiled and looked at Dande.

And in front of her, the same illusion of the ‘vote’ dragon that appeared before others appeared.

＂… Hah?＂

Why is that still?

“I like watching the results and voting.”

＂Wow.＂

Sasha also voiced as if she was tired of Dorothea telling such nonsense.

And without hesitation, Dorothea’s finger pointed to ‘No’ and touched her illusion.

That moment-

The proportions that appeared before her eyes were instantly reversed.

＂…!＂

The proportion of ‘yes’ is 49.9%, and the proportion of ‘no’ is 50.1%.

As soon as Dorothea’s vote was cast, seeing the rate change, Dandelion’s hopeful expression instantly collapsed and turned into despair.

As if in response, a huge device rose up from underneath the table.

A pyramid floating on top of a sculpture in the shape of a sphere

And, the eerie ‘eye’ shape attached to the pyramid.

＇Execution platform!＇

Cleon and his group looked at the miniature that Chopper had shown them and figured out its identity.

＂Well, that… That can’t be possible!＂

His breathing quickens, and he somehow twists his barely mobile body, clinging to Dorothea’s feet.

“Wait, Dorothea! You can do better! If I put my mind to it, I can take down all of these guys and protect you! So, please don’t throw it away, !”

Dandelion begs with a frightened expression, wondering where his confident and arrogant appearance from before has gone.

Dorothea looked at Dan della Ion, sighed, and shook her head in response.

＂Look.＂

＂Hi!＂

He bent his knees, brought himself to eye level with Dan Del Ion, and smiled.

That smile, like that of the Virgin Mary, was full of pretense and deception.

“You’re still a coward, aren’t you?”

＂Ah.＂

That was Dandelion’s death.

The eyes on the top of the execution platform met Dandelion’s eyes.

Then, a large hole appears in the sphere beneath it, and a magical hand extends towards Dandelion.

“No! No! Stop it!!”

Dandelion struggles and tries to escape from his grasp.

Seeing that miserable sight, even Cleon and his party who were hostile to him were left speechless.

＂…＂

One by one, they are peeling off.

Not to mention the luxurious clothes he was wearing.

The power and courage of the Fairy King that was taken from the king.

＂Aaaaah!!!＂

Dandelion’s body, which was screaming so loudly that it shook the world, gradually becomes smaller.

It gets smaller and smaller, shrinking to the size of a dog.

Soon, he fell helplessly to the ground and lost consciousness.

There, there was no majestic lion walking on two feet.

The head has all fallen out, including the mane, and has become a bald mountain.

There was only one lion cub with downy fur.

“Bye. Dandelion.”

Dorothea looks down at Dandelion as if he is worthless.

Then, she just smiled and looked back at Cleon’s group.

“It was fun. Right? “

＂…＂

Dorothea, who spoke in such a somewhat virtuous manner, was no longer included in the category that her group could understand.

She could no longer think of the woman before her eyes as anything other than something disguised as a human being.