Chapter 45: Empathy Is A Human Evil
Princess Alice was not surprised by the death notice Roy gave her. She was neither shocked nor panicked, as if she had already expected this result. She even peacefully explained the origin behind her title.
She even languidly leaned on the headboard of the bed, raised her bloodless, fair hands, pulled stands of her hair on her eyes aside, and smiled at Roy:
"...I know my physical condition very well, King Roy."
"...I am not bragging about myself, but in terms of my ability as a Hime-Miko, I am the most powerful, that's why I am the highest rank witch in the heavens of the 'heaven' witchcraft. Only the highest ranked witch on earth of 'earth' witchcraft can barely compare with me."
"But I am not happy at all, you have also seen the price I have to pay– my body and my life."
"I have had extraordinary spiritual energy since I was born, I awakened all the four most powerful innate abilities by the age of seven, and even mastered all of them when I was ten years old."
"This powerful spiritual energy allowed to me activate my Spirit Vision for longer period of time, thus I used to spend most my days immersed in the Astral Plane viewing the Memories of the Void."
"I learned a lot there, it was my library, I learned magic from there without any teacher, with so rich knowledge, I became the highest rank witch in the heavens of the 'heaven' witchcraft by the age of eleven."
"This is why I was able to directly become the Diogenes rank sage, the highest rank of the Council of Sages, at twelve, where the average age of all the Diogenes rank sages is seventy."
"Viewing the Memories of Void taught me a lot of life experience, by thirteen I was already the Chairperson of the Council of Sages"
Perhaps it was because she knews that her life is limited, she has lived two-thirds of her life, so Princess Alice can be so fearless when facing a cruel and powerful Campione like Roy.
She is not afraid of death, even the current life of always lying in bed is no better than death. To Alice, her current life is not better than a living corpse.
When a person is not afraid of death, they will lose their fear and become brave and courageous.
"My body can hardly leave from here, so in normal times I will 'live' in the form of a spiritual body. The spiritual body can appear in every corner of this world in an instant. By now, I have visited most of the beautiful places on earth."
The long talk made Princess Alice's face paler, she covered her mouth and coughed twice while panting for breath.
Liliana on the side poured some water from the bottle in a glass, carefully sat next to Princess Alice, placed the edge of the glass on her thin lips, and slowly fed her the water in the glass.
"Thank you, you are Miss Liliana? Although she looks awe-inspiring and serious from the outside, she is actually a delicate and shy girl from inside. Oh, Miss Liliana also likes to write some 'unique' novels."
Princess Alice thanked Liliana with a smile, then she mischievously stared at Liliana. Maybe it was due to her 'Spirit Vision' or her own experience, but she could see through Liliana's true nature with just a few simple glances.
"I, I am a serious knight, saying that I have a d-delicate mind or something.."
Liliana's face was flustered, facing Princess Alice, the predecessor on witch's path as well as the most famous witch in the whole magic circle, made Liliana, who is not good at dealing with these things, even more embarrassed.
"Hee hee~~ This is not an embarrassing thing. Miss Liliana must keep her hobbies intact."
"This kind of upright and serious knight in appearance but extremely sensitive and shy in her heart will win more of the king's favor~"
Seeing Liliana blushing face, Princess Alice just made a few more jokes.
"Don't bully Lily."
Roy interrupted Princess Alice in time, in exchange for Liliana's grateful look.
"Only I can bully my cute knight."
However the following words made Liliana's grateful expression to falter and caused Erica and Princess Alice to giggle.
Roy regained his smile as he looked at Princess Alice and said:
"Princess Alice, although the Spirit Body is a very convenient ability, you can travel around the world at any time, but it also has a big flaws."
"A spiritual body is ultimately not as good as a physical body. When you act in a state of a spiritual body, you have no sense of taste, touch or smell. You can't even be called a complete 'human being'."
Roy pointed out the core flaws of Spirit Body, causing a wryly smile to emerge on her elegant face.
"King, you are right. Because I have no sense of smell, I cannot distinguish the fragrance of different perfumes. Because there is no sense of taste, I can't enjoy the taste of food."
"In fact, I know all of these, but in this monotonous way to life, it's better to be more optimistic, care more the things I have than the things I don't have. However, sometimes I wished I never had experienced these 'luxuries' of a normal person."
"...Just like a blind person, if you are born blind, because you have never seen the beautiful colors of this world, naturally you will not be too sad, but if you acquired blindness later, because you have seen the colorful world in the past, it will be more painful after losing all of this."
"I was in good health when I was a child, I have tasted desserts, I was obsessed with strong and flavourful black tea of Darjeeling along with a heavy breakfast, and I also liked to take long walks in gardens, smelling the fragrance of flowers, but all this was lost as I turned into a teenager."
"My stomach and intestine system became very poor, slowly my health deteriorated day by day. Now I can only live with the delivery of nutrition through iv drops, and I can only lie down on my bed. Counting each day heading towards my death."
Though, Princess Alice has a huge amount of spiritual energy in her body, spiritual energy is different from magical energy.
With the increase in magical energy, the physique also improves, though the improvement is not big.
However, spiritual energy, doesn't improve the physique, rather it improves the soul of the user.
That's why, Princess Alice's weak body cannot hold the ever-growing spiritual energy and the higher quality of soul, and so the body functions are failing one by one.
The tragic life of Princess Alice, the most powerful witch in heaven; shocked Erica and Liliana to their core.
The two fourteen years old girls are at a sentimental age. Listening to Princess Alice's vegetative life, there was pity in their eyes.
"Don't look at me with those look, it will make me more sad."
Princess Alice said uncomfortably when she saw the pity in the eyes of the two girls.
"Yes, Erica and Liliana, don't show empathy for the misfortunes of people, it will make other lament more at their misfortunes."
"Although empathy is an emotion that a human must have, 'empathy' is also 'human evil'. It is a stain that mankind cannot conquer and is one of the culprits that will cause the demise of mankind."
"When humans are suffering, they tend to make two demands that are impossible to fulfill simultaneously."
"On the one hand, they want people to notice the depth of their pain and sorrow — how deep they are in the pit, how unique and tragic their circumstances are."
"At the same time, they don't want to be made to feel that they really need the assistance of others."
"Simply, the sufferers doesn't want to be alone, and even demand not to be pitied. This makes their emotional turmoil in suffering not only harmful, but also highly combustible and unpredictable. But, definitely you can give some sympathy just like me."
"Sympathy is when you share the feelings of another; empathy is when you understand the feelings of another but do not necessarily share them. Right, princess?"
Roy reminded the two girls, and then he looked at Princess Alice's beautiful face full of smiles and said in a gentle tone.
"I see now... No wonder you resigned three years after becoming the chairman of the Council of Sages. I thought the so-called physical problems were just excuses, but now they seem to be true."
"...No wonder Marquis Voban didn't look for you two years ago when he wanted to hold the Heretic God Summoning Ceremony, because he already knew that your body simply couldn't do that."
Princess Alice nodded lightly, her contagious smile appeared to be able to fill a withered flower with vitality :
"...When King Roy came to my residense to find me, I already knew king's purpose. A campione will only search for Hime-Mikos and witches when they want to summon a Heretic God or use their Spirit Vision to search for something."
"I am afraid that you like Marquis Voban want to do a Heretic God Summoning Ceremony, right?"
"...But it's a pity that I let the king run for nothing. With my physical state, it is impossible to leave from here. I am afraid that I will die before the ceremony is even held."
"Magic cannot cure me because my powerful spiritual power rejects the outer foreign magical energy entering in my body."
"Even the 'Vitakinesis' of Madame Aisha's <Live or Die> Divine Authority which she usurped from Greek Goddess, Persephone; will only temporarily heal my body functions to previous state, but that is not the permanent cure."
"My body will again return into the previous weak state. Moreover, as my spiritual energy is increasing, after each treatment the deterioration is getting faster. Nowadays Madame Aisha is in another timeline, so my body cannot be cured."
"I'm afraid that I will disappoint King's expectations."
Princess Alice's smile was very happy, as if she had an absolutely irrefutable reason for herself, making Roy, the devious Godslayer, fall into a difficult position.
"Ha, other people may feel helpless at your situation, Princess Alice. But I just seem to have the cure of our illness."
Roy suddenly stood up, and came near her bed to the panic of Princess Alice, she was feeling that the situation seemed to be a little out of control.
He stretched out his left hand and grabbed the princess's sharp chin, looked at her pale, beautiful lips, and bent down his body!
This is exactly the fifth of his seven <Holy Right>.
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