Reincarnated as an affinity-less hero, the quest to become the strongest!

Chapter 42: Goodbyes

"The curse, I deem you enemies of all the human alliance!"

...

"Does it seem like I care?"

"..."

I had not even waited a single more second before coldly replying to Sakura. Everyone, for some reason, seemed taken aback by my careless reply to such a threat...

To be quite honest, despite having no idea what the human alliance was, what she just declared did, in fact, make me flinch... But in the end, just being the [Demon Empress] myself, kind of makes me an enemy of the entire human race already so...

"I don't care that you consider us as enemies of the human alliance. I just did what was necessary... I will not allow anyone, and I mean ANYONE, to defame or falsely accuse us of anything at all... This 'trial' or whatever you want to call it, was not even close to what justice is supposed to be... But what else is there to expect from the Everidian kingdom..."

I had just spoken with my heart to be frank. Those were actually what my true feelings looked like right now... If I could've simply avoided all of this trouble I would've happily done so... But it was far too late for that...

"Silence! I don't have to take anything from you, monster!"

"Oh no! You do! You should know how putrid the Everidian kingdom is... You were summoned by them after all! Besides... the only monster here was none other than that imbecile, Pietro..."

"Shut it! He was no imbecile! No brute like you either!"

"Oh, so he was just a plain liar?"

"...Pietro was a good man..."

"He was nothing but a cockroach who deserved to die... He defamed, insulted and even went as far as to try to lock us up while killing me... That guy... that same guy who did those crimes... is the true monster of this room..."

Everything had been regular heated discussion up to this point... but, something changed here... because the moment I finished my sentence... the aura around Sakura began to become infused with magic power as she kept arguing...

"You don't know anything about him!"

"Oh, I know enough!"

"You know nothing about Pietro or me, you have no idea how much support Pietro gave me after he left!"

"Well, I don't care, Pietro might've been nice to you because you're a hero and all, but what he tried to do to us... is absolutely unforgivable..."

"..."

For a change, after this response, Sakura remained silent...

But it wasn't because she was agreeing with me...

I had actually sensed it earlier... but Sakura had kept getting more and more and more killing intent as I kept refuting her...

By this point, it seemed as if she was about to fight me... and I really wasn't wrong...

I could quite clearly tell Sakura was preparing herself for something as she gripped her staff and carefully attempted to amass magic power within it...

She did so with care so as for me not to notice, yet it was a little too late...

I had already noticed, she was clearly becoming ready to fight me...

"Pietro-sama wasn't weak, or fake... He has helped us so much since arriving at this world... yet you killed him without remorse... I'll make you pay..."

Immediately after, Sakura's entire body began faintly glowing white, while I just remained standing still...

'So this is it huh?'