Super Righteous Player
Chapter 916 - 451 The Unrighteous God

Chapter 916: Chapter 451 The Unrighteous God

This is certainly an unabashed compliment.

But Annan just sighed.

"...Did you come specifically to help me?"

Faced with Annan’s question, the Silver Baron just smiled without answering.

The Silver Baron adjusted Annan’s collar, tidied up his clothes, and said slowly, "Perhaps, I just came to mend your clothes. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be decent to appear before those children like this.

"The three Sirens can transform along with you... but your clothes cannot.

"When you have the time, you might want to visit Yawen. If Yawen signs your clothes, you won’t have to worry about the unromantic issue of ’lacking clothes to wear after transforming.’"

The Silver Baron even found the time to tease Annan a bit.

But Annan understood in his heart...

This time the Silver Baron had not been born from the light—in other words, the Silver Baron had not teleported here, but had been quietly following behind Annan all along.

So, right after Annan had just defeated Nicholas, he immediately came out to help Annan with psychological counseling, nipping the problems in the bud.

Just as the Silver Baron had just said, "Do not let doubts give birth to suspicion and misunderstanding."

Just like what was shown in Nicholas’s memories of old, at the very beginning, Nicholas was merely a somewhat introverted, friendless, and gloomy young man.

If his father had paid him a bit more attention and shown his care openly, instead of secretly seeking Isaac as his foster father, then Nicholas would not have felt "abandoned," and his desire to prove himself might not have been so intense;

If among his classmates, there happened to be one who was as cheerful, enthusiastic, positive, and good at banter like a hot-blooded protagonist, wanting to be his friend... perhaps he would have had the chance to become a person who protects others, rather than being ostracized from social circles;

And if someone had chatted with him by his side when he first entered the Wizard’s Tower, letting Nicholas know that "it is callable after occupying study time," then this resentment would not have accumulated and brewed in his heart for so long; even if that mentor had taken the time of the person in front of or behind him, the situation today would have been entirely different.

But in this world, there are no ifs.

One’s misfortune cannot serve as their exculpation—the crime committed does not fade away because the perpetrator is pitiful.

However, if one uses others as mirrors and aims to "prevent tragedies from reoccurring in others," then it is necessary to summarize and research the past events without neglecting those minor, "insignificant" details.

It is these coincidences that accumulate to form fate.

"Could any act of degeneration be abrupt..."

Annan murmured, "I understand what you want to say."

—he suddenly realized what the Silver Baron truly wanted to warn him about.

Even if it’s just a lingering shadow in one’s heart, a proverb once upheld as a beacon torn by reality or everything naturally experienced from birth, it might subtly cause a previously pure and upright soul to degenerate.

Even though Annan possesses a reversed Heart of Winter, able to block out most of the distractions and evil thoughts.

But it is not necessarily evil thoughts that lead one down the wrong path.

Sometimes, overly noble, merciful, and impractical ideas are equally harmful.

Many saints have died for this reason—they breached the holy covenant made when they received their relics and thus suffered the most severe counter-curse.

The Silver Baron probably came specifically to guide Annan, telling him "what justice is."

—In other words, the Silver Baron feared that Annan, if provoked, would become radical and define justice as "eradicating all sins in the world."

If ordinary people held such a notion, it wouldn’t have much impact... because their lack of assertiveness would only allow them to point fingers from the outskirts, comment on others’ actions as "not pure enough."

But if Annan developed this idea, that would be troublesome.

—Because this could indeed be considered a form of "justice."

If this idea resonated with the Heart of Justice, Annan would gain "the power sufficient to realize it" and "the Curse Binding to compel its completion."

Once such a lofty ideal was put into practice, it would turn Annan into a "demon king" who drags the entire world into a sea of fire.

The saying goes, to punish without teaching is to govern harshly but fail to eliminate evil.

To impose severe penalties without elevating public morality through education might be effective short-term... but it will equally make the populace suffer, which can also be considered "injustice."

The Silver Baron’s warning, in a sense, might be superfluous.

Annan is not that type of transistor teenager with Uchiha bloodline, whose love and hate change rapidly, extremely adaptable to radical elements—if such elements existed.

Annan has sufficient confidence in his own virtues and rationality.

He has always relied on virtue and rationality to constrain his various actions. Just give Annan some time, and he can extract nutrients from Nicholas’s experiences to foster his own growth.

After all, even before Annan came to this world, he was such a person.

But even so, Annan was still able to make steady progress.

Annan, when he first obtained the first and second pages of the Book of the Celestial Chariot, now seems naïve and impetuous compared to his current self.

This is precisely the experience gained from "experiences."

"...But I have another question, Lord Silver Baron."

Annan took a deep breath, his eyes becoming bright and clear: "When Nicholas was just slaughtering the villagers... you must have already been there.

"At first, my plan was made in the bank. I was originally going to meet the Faceless Poet at Crow’s house after visiting Lord Chiron.

"But she suddenly came to me ahead of schedule, even slightly disrupting my arrangement—I pushed the time forward a bit, which is roughly when Nicholas was handling the scene after the crime.

"So, my lord."

Annan looked at the Silver Baron: "If you had witnessed this, would you also not have intervened to rescue them?

"Then, did you really know about this in advance?

"So... could your actions also be described as ’injustice’?"

As the Silver Baron had said.

The moment a doubt appeared in Annan’s heart, he immediately voiced this question, seeking an answer through inquiry rather than delusion.