Is this mangaka crazy?

When Kenji Tanaka saw this paragraph, he couldn't help but fall silent.

As an educator, he was deeply moved by Dema's idea of "correct education."

He even felt that Dema was right.

Indeed, Dema was saying that people cannot lose the most basic morality as human beings.

That is, behavior among the same kind of people should not be allowed.

Otherwise, in this desperate environment, human beings will only kill each other until they are completely destroyed.

So, even knowing that Agni sacrificed himself with a broken arm, Dema decided to destroy the village.

But was Dema entirely right? What he did in Besim Druk was not right at all.

Following the orders of Besim Druk's main leaders, he murdered innocent people and captured slaves uncontrollably.

All of this is far from being erased by his words of "correct education."

Blood debt is blood debt and is ineffaceable!

However, faced with Agni's accusation, Dema silently accepted it.

He said: "Agni... I don't blame you; I have no right to blame you."

"It wasn't I, who received a correct education, who set you on fire, but I, who received an incorrect education...".

According to Dema's story, Besim Druk used poor quality, old-fashioned movies and their special effects to confuse people.

They believed there was an Ice Witch, that they had received revelation from the gods, and they went out to find supplies and capture slaves.

One day, much later, Dema discovered that everything was fake, and that those images of gods performing miracles were scenes from movies.

So he directly burned them.

Upon hearing this, Togata couldn't help himself, because Dema burned...

Togata's house and the movies in his house.

He pressed Dema to the ground and vented his anger with punches.

However, Dema did not resist, and now he looked extremely pitiful.

"Please... forgive me," Dema said humbly.

He could obviously use his fire ability to resist Togata.

But he didn't, because he knew he had done many bad things, so he could only beg for forgiveness.

And at that moment...

"Stay away from my master!"

A dozen children rushed out from a distance, carrying weapons, warning Togata and Agni.

Then they all protected Dema, who now looked pitiful and very embarrassed.

"Don't bully the master!"

"Don't bully him!"

"That's right!"

...

The children shared the same hatred and stood firmly in front of Dema to protect him.

At the same time, Dema still had scars on his face and said very humbly: "Please... please let me go..."

"You two, let me go..."

"I know I did something unforgivable, something that can never be forgiven, no matter how much I compensate for it in this life..."

"But I can't die yet!"

"Please!"

After seeing these children protecting Dema, and what Dema had said earlier.

Agni finally hesitated; his reason told him.

Dema is not a completely evil person and cannot die.

Upon seeing those children, Agni felt that if he killed Dema now...

what would be the difference between him and the previous Dema?

So he told Togata: "Togata, I no longer plan to kill Dema."

"Both Dema and I have people we want to save...".

"I want to spend my life saving those I want to save, and the same goes for Dema... That's it."

"Let's put aside revenge now...".

After saying that, Agni turned and left.

"I want to... go back."

But Togata didn't believe him. "Is this enough for you? Are you satisfied with this?"

"Will the deceased Luna really be satisfied with this ending?"

Upon hearing his sister Luna's name, Agni stopped.

Then he turned to Togata and exclaimed loudly: "Luna!"

"She won't be satisfied with anyone dying!"

After saying that, he paused for a moment before adding: "...Me too."

"Even if Dema dies, I won't be satisfied."

Dema, the armed child, and Togata were stunned by his words.

"Since you say so, let's stop here," Togata said helplessly.

Agni and Togata slowly walked out, but Togata seemed to realize that Agni was not that rational and continued to ask:

"Is that how your revenge plan ends?"

Agni immediately asked: "If I were the protagonist... would I kill Dema like that?"

Manga fans were a little stuck at that moment. They thought it was a happy revenge, but in the end, did Agni decide to forgive? But... if he chose revenge, he would bear the heavy burden of killing the 17 innocent children adopted by Dema.

For Agni, this was something he absolutely did not want to do.

But... was Agni really willing to let go of his hatred at that moment?

He and Togata were walking down the road. Togata passed him, but he walked slower and slower.

Suddenly, his sister Luna appeared in the flashback image.

Agni stopped, and then... more flashback images emerged.

In the flashback, the villagers burned and groaned in pain, and Luna's face slept peacefully.

Agni's image in reality began to change position in the manga.

He wanted to move forward, but the next flashback image appeared, and his position shifted back to the left side of the image.

It seemed that the left side of the image represented his sensibility, which urged him to turn back and kill Dema and his adopted child at all costs.

The right side was his rationality, which urged him to let go of all hatred and start anew.

Agni wanted to follow his rationality. He knew that killing Dema was wrong.

But the painful memories of the past made his sensibility, which he struggled to suppress, pull him back again.

Images of memories appeared one after another: Luna's calm, sleeping face, and then her painful and horrifying appearance before being burned alive.

The way Dema looked down at him...

young Agni looking at him...

the flames devouring his pain...

Dema's satisfied smile, who did all this...

and the image of the little girl Dema adopted, protecting him.

Finally, his sister Luna suddenly appeared in front of him.

Everyone knew it was an illusion.

But in the illusion...

she looked at the burning bonfire in front of her and told Agni: "Brother, please."

"For me, kill Dema...".

"No... Dema is already repenting and reflecting...", Agni told Luna in the illusion.

He could no longer distinguish whether it was an illusion or reality...

He truly couldn't distinguish!

"His repentance was just an act...", Luna told Agni in Agni's self-illusion.

"Acting... acting?" Agni was a little confused.

"Yes, acting."

Luna in the illusion said: "Aren't those around you like that, brother?"

"But... but I'm already the protagonist, a goddess..."

"Brother... for me," Luna continued to tell Agni in the illusion.

Finally, she made a punching gesture:

"Use Fire Punch on him!"

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