Chapter 166 – Episode 99 – Life Where You Can’t Even Be Treated as a Human Being

*All characters appearing are adults.
*This is a fictional story that is nothing but fiction. Never follow

Perno.
A city where a large number of ethnic minorities who lost their lives after being defeated in the war against the kingdom live.
For the residents of this city, living every day is hell.

Exchanges with the outside world, as well as migration, are prohibited.
You have to live only in the city.
If you go outside the city, you will be beheaded.
No matter how desperate the reason to go outside, the kingdom won’t let its residents leave the city.

Therefore, residents have no choice but to live in desperation.
You have to endure the pain, and you have to endure the hunger.
Despite the tyranny of the kingdom, which refused to give even a piece of bread, the residents had no choice but to endure it, swallowing tears of blood.
Because they know better than anyone that they have no power.

The city is said to be a city, but in reality it was a huge concentration camp.
The dissatisfaction of the people of Perno continued to build up day by day due to the kingdom’s continued discriminatory treatment.

‘I can’t stand it like this. If we continue like this, we will all die. Let’s go and pick it up right away. You can’t just sit back and take it, can you?’

If complaints continue to pile up, they will eventually explode.
The people of Perno stood up.
They held a large-scale demonstration saying that they could not stand it as it was and demanded immediate improvement.

Rascal and Carly’s parents also joined the protest.
I can’t bear to see young children being treated as livestock.
Rascal and Callie’s parents risked their lives because they wanted their daughters to be treated as human beings even if they died.

‘We are not beasts!’
‘Liberate Ferno! Don’t lock us up!’
‘Elimination of discrimination! Guaranteed freedom!’

The then governor attempted to suppress the protest.
But it was impossible to disperse hundreds of thousands of demonstrators.
No matter how hard the suppression was, the advance of the demonstrators could not be stopped.
In the end, the demonstrators surrounded the governor’s residence, and the governor was put in a position to meet their demands.

So, did this protest end successfully?

‘I order the captain of the guard. Lead your troops and march to Perno.’

No, it ended in a fiasco.

‘Kill all those wicked beasts! Cut off the heads of all of them without leaving a single one!’

What King Doublet chose was slaughter, not compromise.
When it was reported that it was difficult to quell the protesters with the troops stationed in Perno, the king dispatched his personal guard.
He issued a strict order to kill all residents who participated in the protests, regardless of gender.

In fact, the king could have made a different choice.
We were able to abolish the kingdom’s long-standing discriminatory policy and extend a helping hand.
He was able to settle the conflict with the people of Perno and arrange a place to discuss the future together.

But he made the king’s worst choice.
He made an irreversible choice.
For the reason that they were beasts, because the beasts pointed their swords at them, so they chose the option that it didn’t matter if they all were killed.

‘If you do this again, I’ll wipe out Perno itself!’

Protesters were annihilated.
Hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered by the swords of the SS.
By order of the king, the protesters’ heads were stacked like towers and displayed in the square.
It is to show that if you resist, you will end up like this.

Among the heads on display were Rascal and Carly’s parents.

‘Dad mom…’

The sight of their parents’ heads on display shocked Rascal and her sister.
Parents who promised that they would definitely come back alive, that they would come back in case of danger, and that they would not leave them alone.
In the end, that promise could never be kept.
When the sisters found their parents’ heads, they sat down.

‘Father, mother…’

So was Carly.
Her parents’ heads were stacked on the topmost floor.
Because he is the head of organizing the protesters.

Carly’s parents were the ones who suggested the protest in the first place.
Whether you die from drying out like this or die from their knives, it’s all the same.
Either way, if it ends in death, let’s at least show our will.
We persuaded the residents to show that we are human too.
Carly thought she was proud of her parents.

With that in mind, it was natural for her to be shocked by her parents’ miserable end.

‘Fresh livestock came today as well.’

Years passed and Rascal and Carly became adults.
And according to the kingdom’s policy, two people were also conscripted.
This is because, as a rule, all grown-up Ferno residents are conscripted.

Although Rascal and Kali lost their parents by the kingdom, they had no choice but to obey.
Although the resentment is deep, I know very well that I do not have the strength to resolve it.

In this way, 5,000 Perno residents, including Rascal and Callie, were taken to the underground laboratory.
There, they met the second princess, Azel.

‘Did the new livestock come again?’

The second princess, Azel.
She was appointed governor of Perno by order of King Doublet.
She has dark blue hair and red eyes, just like her older sister Bellion.
But her personality was so different from her older sister.

‘I want to kill them all, but it’s a pity that I can’t. Well, there won’t be any of them going back here alive.’

While her older sister Bellion inherited her mother Libel’s benevolent nature, her younger brother Eisel inherited the cruel nature of her father King Doublet.
Eisel regretted not being able to wipe out Perno.
Had it not been for the plan the kingdom was pursuing, she would have petitioned her father long ago to wipe it out.

‘I wish there was one alive. I don’t want to see my father suffering because of the demons anymore.’

The kingdom’s plan is to create superhumans that surpass demons.
This is why a huge laboratory was built in the basement of Perno.

Humans are too weak.
Magic, technology, and even military power are inferior to the demons.
Until now, with the help of the angels, the invasion of demons has been stopped, but it is unclear how long it will continue.
And these concerns became a reality with the invasion of Leviathan.
The fear that they could no longer perish even with the aid of the angels prevailed among the heads of the kingdom.

So the kingdom made a plan to train superhumans.
A human with power that surpasses demons as well as angels.
If such superhumans can be trained, the kingdom will be able to stop the invasion on its own, even if it cannot receive the help of angels.
The kingdom mobilized all the technology they had achieved and risked life and death to train superhumans.

And all the victims needed for training were decided to be Perno residents.
The reason for choosing them is simple.

Because it’s a beast
It’s a pest that doesn’t matter even if it doesn’t exist in the kingdom.
It’s not cool to annihilate them, but it’s a waste to just kill them, so let’s use them as test subjects.

So many Perno residents were sacrificed.
So far, the reason why none of the young adults of Perno have been taken away alive is because they could not withstand the experiment and all died.

‘Hey, look over there, Carly. The people on the cart over there. Aren’t they the ones who were taken away last year?’
‘That’s right. Uh, how could you…’

People who were taken away last year and became corpses.
Rascal and Carly were shocked to see the people being transported in a cart.
The sight of the corpse was so horrific that words cannot express it.
Couldn’t they die the same way?
Rascal and Carly were terrified.
The same goes for the residents who were brought along.

But even when they were terrified, no one comforted them.

‘What are you so afraid of? Are you guys going to leave too?’

There was only the princess laughing at them.

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To begin with, the superhuman training was destined to fail.
Even though the kingdom risked life and death, it was lacking in all aspects.
With the current technology of the human world, it was impossible to create a perfect superhuman.

On the other hand, the demons created the superman the kingdom wanted long ago.
Demon King Eris and her two older sisters Junis and Arietta are representative examples.
Through modification, these three people became superhumans that no one could touch.
Even after that, the number of demons who became superhuman through remodeling is increasing one by one.

In other words, the training of superhumans, which the kingdom risked everything for, is also far behind the demons.
The kingdom, completely unaware of the fact, constantly replaced the inhabitants of Perno.

‘Ha, ha, ka, kali. Are you, are you alive?’
‘Sah, I’m alive. Ra, Rascal, your eyes are weird, right?’

Rascal and Carly experienced living hell every day.
Unknown drugs were administered every day, and he suffered from the pain of being torn apart every day.
I had to train hard every day, and I had to fight with the residents to kill each other.

Some could not stand it and committed suicide.
Some were beheaded while trying to escape.
There were also those who could not stand the experiment and lost their lives.
The bodies of countless Perno residents piled up like a mountain.
They were not even given a proper funeral and were incinerated like garbage.

‘Is this the only thing that survived?’

Only 200 survivors gained the ability after brutal experiments.
Agel was greatly disappointed by the poor performance.

‘But I can’t help it. I have no choice but to use these guys.’

At this time, demons were invading Perno.
Judging that he could not defend all of Perno, Eisel withdrew all his forces to the area inhabited by his people.
Having built a defense line in the residential area, Eisel launched a desperate fight.

However, there is a limit to the death-defying resistance.
In order to stop the demons constantly attacking, a more innovative method was needed.

So Agel organized the 200 surviving inhabitants of Perno into an assassination unit.
Assigned the mission to assassinate the demon officers.
No matter how many there are, if the leaders who lead them fall, the demons in the world will collapse.
According to the governor’s judgment, 200 assassination troops were put into the battlefield.
Rascal and Kali were also put into battle.

‘The kill is complete. It’s definitely stuck in my head.’

Rascal gained the power of ‘sniper’.
No matter how far away the target is, no matter where they are hiding, they can be found.
Rascal made active use of this power, driving his own arrow into the head of his foe.

‘Ha, ha, treatment complete. Uh, I have to run away.’

Kali gained the power of ‘concealment’.
The ability to make your body invisible.
Using this ability, Kali was able to penetrate deep into enemy lines.
Enemies who did not even know who came were decapitated without even knowing mice or birds.

It’s not just these two.
Each of the 200 members of the Assassination Unit had one ability.
With this ability, he drove the demons into fear.

But gaining power comes at a cost.

‘Cool, cool! What, why is there blood?’
‘Ah, why are you doing this, I don’t remember anything. Nothing…’
‘Ahahaha, ahahaha! Die, die, die!’

There were those who suddenly vomited blood.
There were people who suddenly lost their memories.
There were also those who suddenly went mad and killed them all.
Since gaining strength, everyone suffered from side effects.

It was the same with Rascal and Carly.

‘Ugh, I can’t see anything. Nothing…’

The more Rascal used his power, the more he lost his sight.

‘Heo-eok, hee-eok, hee-eok! Can, breathe, can’t breathe uh, can’t.’

Carly’s heart ached so much.
It hurt so much that I couldn’t breathe.

It hurts so much.
However, neither of them informed the governor of this fact.

‘Oh yeah? Then die.’

Because he killed the crew member who complained of being sick on the spot.
The two of them couldn’t speak because they had seen it.
Even though it was painful, I had no choice but to hide it.

‘Ka, Kaliu, Uriba, must buy, let’s survive. I’m going to show it to those rotten bastards alive. Let’s show that we’re human.’
‘Me too, Rascal. I don’t think I’ll die like this.’

Enemies are everywhere.
My body hurts, but I can’t appeal to anyone.
Even if you fight like a dog, there is only despair at the end.
No one will remember that they fought.

I will still fight
I will definitely survive this shitty situation.
He will survive and bring justice to those who killed his parents, to those who made us this way.
Let’s survive until that time comes.
Rascal and Carly made that promise.

And,

‘Are you the assassins? Kingdom guys. I prepared something really fun.’

I ran into Junis, the highest leader of the demon army.