[+4 AP]

  Killing a simple monster from the first stage earned him 4 AP. It wasn't an exaggerated amount, but it made him wonder how much he would gain if he did the same with a higher-ranked monster.

  By the way, Zaydas tried to probe the monsters' minds with telepathy. He succeeded, but the only response he got was… Hunger, immense hunger, and a desire to destroy things. It didn't matter what. It rimitive instinct that drove them to destroy and an insatiable hunger.

  The worst part was that he "saw" that, to the monsters, intelligent beings seemed more appetizing.

  As for the reason, Zaydas could e up with some theories, but he set that aside for now.

  Seeing a building on the verge of colpsing and Supergirl resg people from it, Zaydas thought for a moment before creating multiple red magic circles in the sky.

  There were so many that they exceeded 100 magic circles.

  "What is this guy doing now?" Supergirl, who had just e out with the st person from the building, murmured quietly.

  However, even though she spoke softly, Zaydas heard her. He simply smiled and waited until Supergirl pced the elderly woman on the ground, then activated the magic circles.

  The instant he did, the sky darkened, and the civilians disappeared.

  "What did you do!?" Supergirl flew to him, full e, grabbing him by the colr.

  "First, let me go." Zaydas removed her hand. "Sed, 't you tell that I just did something to prevent i people from being dragged into this fight?"

  Somewhat stunned, even embarrassed, she asked, "Really? You did that, but how?"

  Zaydas expined, "I'm creating a barrier that separates the real world from the supernatural. Imagine as if we were entering a mirror. Now, we are i, and everything that happens here won't impact the outside world, even after we leave. Got it?"

  "That's amazing!"

  "Yeah, sure." Zaydas warned, "Aime, think before you act. Don't go around treating everyone like vilins just because they did something you don't uand. Otherwise, don't bme people if they treat you the same way because of your powers."

  "I..." She seemed regretful. "You're right, I rejudiced against you, I'm sorry."

  [+9 AP]

  "..." Zaydas eechless.

  Seeing him silent, Supergirl felt unfortable. Coughing to mask her embarrassment, she said, "Anyway, I'll trust you. Now, we have to deal with them, right? And please, if possible, don't kill them."

  "I'll try," Zaydas didn't promise.

  "That's all I ask." Then, she left.

  As soon as she left, Zaydas remained in the same spot for a few seds.

  Not kill? Is it worth it?

  If he kills, he gains some AP, even if only a few, but if he captures, it's not even worth being recorded. Possibly, things would just py out as they were supposed to. In other words, from the beginning, the creature would be captured by Supergirl or another super, so it's not even worth registering. Only by doing something that wasn't predetermined is it worth being recorded.

  Or at least that's how he uood it.

  So, does fate exist?

  In Zaydas' theory, the ao that question is both yes and no.

  It's ly fate, but rather something predestihat is, if nothing happens to cause a ge, everything will occur as it should. But interference is acceptable.

  Why is it acceptable?

  If it weren't, he felt that his mark would be erased from X dimension and that he would no longer have access to it.

  Which could also suggest that if he did somethireme, like trying to destroy a p… It's very likely he would lose permission to enter X dimension.

  What led him to this uanding? It was when he had to "bribe" his way into Rimuru's dimension.

  Basically, he "bought" his entry with AP.

  Maybe he was wrong, and it wasn't like that at all, but everything poio things w this way, and until proven otherwise, he would think this way.

  "Boom!"

  The loud sound of something colliding with the ground snapped him out of his thoughts.

  Right ahead, Supergirl had casually spped a bat-bee, sending it crashing to the ground, and immediately followed up with her freezing breath.

  The way she acted made Zaydas smile a little.

  'So, she's starting to see the advantages of the freezing breath…'

  From the records he had gathered about Supergirl while trying to better uand this world, he had mainly analyzed the way supers fought.

  Harley Quinn was basically as he expected—someone who pced fun above duty most of the time and didn't mind killing if the situation dema.

  Meanwhile, Supergirl could be described as having a strong sense of justice mixed with self-awarehat she wasn't a human from Earth.

  To Zaydas, she seemed to fear not being accepted—like a child seeking their parents' approval. Precisely because of that, she refused to kill, no matter who it was. Even if it was some degee lunatic threatening aire city and putting thousands of lives at risk.

  Seriously, it seemed tradictory, but Zaydas didn't deny that if she started killing, even if only criminals, many would begin to harshly criticize her.

  Why did he think that? Simply because humans are fools.

  A clear example of this is what happens with most superheroes. Even after saving thousands of people, there will always be those who criticize them for what they didn't do or for what they could have doer. Even those who were saved might end up thinking something like: "She saved me, but if she had been a little faster, I wouldn't have broken my arm."

  The media itself stantly criticizes superheroes, yet they have defended criminals before. Where is the logi that?

  There is a quote he really likes from Charles Chaplin: "Life is a tragedy when seen up close, but a edy when seen from afar."

  In other words: Those who defend criminals and pin about superheroes for hurting them—even slightly—have never been close enough to see things differently. So, for them, it's easy to talk nonsense.

  Although it may seem like he's going in circles, everything boils down to this: the moment Supergirl kills, the repercussions could make it impossible for her to tinue being a superhero.

  However, if she ends up killing irrational monsters, will the result be the same?

  Unfortunately, yes. If there are people who defend criminals that do far worse things than just stealing, there are also those who see even monsters as "victims" who don't know what they're doing, believing there's a better way to deal with them.

  'Thinking like this, I was wrong to try and push Supergirl into killing…' Zaydas reflected, evaluating his own stance.

  From his perspective, he believed he was right—just like many people on that day with the False Santa Cus, who cmored for Supergirl to kill him.

  Approag a first-stage monster, he froze it with a touch of his hand.

  In an instant, a prehistoric mammoth was encased in a giant block of ice.

  'Am I being influenced?' He thought, then de. 'No, I simply don't feel the o kill some shrimps.'

  He could choose to leave the first-stage ones alive, since freezing them was easy and didn't require much of his power, but he would still choose to kill the sed- and third-stage ones.

  In his hand, the power of destruaed as a sphere.

  Telep, he appeared before a crab-man. His hand struck the chest of the Sed-Stage crab-man, obliterating it into nothingness.

  It was as if it had never existed in the first pce.

  [+17 AP]

  Supergirl, who had been pleased at first when she saw Zaydas choose to freeze the beast instead of killing it, sighed at the se…

  'In the end, he's still going to kill…' She mented.

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