Chapter 27 - Volume 3 (1/2)

Dungeon Defense: Volume 3 – Chapter 6Chapter 6 – De of Peasants, Rank 71st, Dantalian

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People of the lowest class who have had their desires castrated

This King of Peasants, who has placed a peasant as his lover, set a peasant as his general, and uards, shall speak to you I sympathize with you all What are you?

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—Please spare us

—If not this huhter

—I ork as a hound for the rest of ive ers You were all weak and powerless so you prostrated yourselves like dogs and begged Barbatos ridiculed and played around with the you, ere like that When she had taken your lives, she did not bother to ask you all for your nah value to be remembered even after death Because you were pitiful, I had furtively sneaked in irrelevant re Barbatos’ words

“What is your name?”

“Do you have any last words you wish to leave behind?”

“Prepare yourselves for death”

The oing to meet your ends soon and cried Until your demises, none of your words reached Barbatos Since you all did not have power, your words had no‘Spare me, do not kill me’ even these words, that are considered theI see that you all do not have authority I feel pity for you all What are you?

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— For your honor’s eneral to be a huood faith i of Peasants

— You must be very fortunate to be so popular omen, your honor! Please teach the people how to bed lowly harlots and spread the inforhout the world

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Witches You had silently received the snow and mud that were tossed at us The soldiers had scorned and jeered at you, ere like that It is htest bit of guilt when throwing dirt at another person, but perhaps, you were not people to them But how could you all not be people? They say that you all do not possess souls, but if that is so, who does? I see that your bare bodies have been torn, cracked, struck, and sto your bodies with cuts and bruises Because you were pitiable, I gave you my mantles

“I vow, that I, Dantalian, shall never return thy advice with silence, and shall never return thy suggestions with scorn If thou art to sweat and bleed for ht for every drop of sweat and blood”

The ed you all as people and thus cried Was this a world where people shed tears when they are acknowledged as people? ‘I am a person, I too am a person’, were even these words, which are considered as one of the most earnest desires in the world, not allowed to you all? I see that you all do not have authority I feel sorry for you all What are you?

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— I’ain……I’ lady…… this young lady, repeatedly……

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Slave Your life was ruined because of a arded the you, as like that In order to make you into an existence that did not exist in the world, they had inored and confined wherever you go, your body is your place of exile and the world is your prison I understand that even if you were to find a lover and have a child, that child will certainly be the child of a slave, so your body itself is a damned curse I have heard about the sad servants who had severed their reproductive organs on their own in order to not pass down their curse To you all, there was no answer other than death However, how could death be the answer? Because you were sad, I whispered to you

“You are no longer the victier a part of the ho are offended, but a part of the strong who offend If someone tries to take your life, then kill theet to you first It is simple If that someone is your father, then kill your father, and if that someone is God, then kill God as well All you have to do is take all their lives”

The htered the eneer a person as killed, but a person who brought upon death ‘The person who tries to kill me, I have no other choice but to kill the unable to utter even once these words that are the most ardent in the world? In the end, I see that people will not kill you if you have authority I feel sorrow for you all What are you?

Fire-fallow villagers, witches, slaves

Are you all pitiful, sorry, and sad people? Is that solely it? Is that why someone has to sympathize, pat your heads, and take care of you? Will you all eternally remain as kind, soft, and pure individuals if someone were to do so? Are those your true colors?

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o noill we return</e and our sons are burning</eo now, then e return……</e faces, which you displayed while plundering and co arson, not also your true selves? Was i the other peasants the moment you received authority, not your bare faces?

Ah, you are all not merely kind, soft, and pure eunuchs You are the same as I The sa more than people who have yet to obtain authority That is it ‘We are also the same! We also want authority!’ even these words, that are the most obvious outcry in the world, must be allowed to be said by you all

Despite that, fellows like Rosenberg simply considered you all as poor subjects Would that be better? Do you all wish to live naively for the rest of your lives? Do you not have desires? Do you not have any cravings for authority? Do you plan to be obedient for all eternity like castrated pets? I regard you all as my equal! Therefore, since I do not consider you all as mere kind, soft, and pure-hearted subjects, since I will not simply sympathize and stroke your heads, I will not take care of you all

Rosenberg believed that he stood her than his subjects Thus, that hy he had tried to pull his subjects into his arms, and tried to save his people till the bitter end Since the words which he was caught by were old-fashi+oned, that old ony because of that threadbareness

Peasants, I will take your lives if needed, and if needed, you all can takeyou all as my equal

Is there a difference between the burnt corpses hanging on that black wall and the miserable lives that are attached to the rampart like clams?

If there is a separation in life and death, then there is only authority

You all have the rights to desire authority and live for it

The sight of you all struggling, bleeding, killing, and being killed for authority is beautiful to me

If he is to see you roar out as you are drenched in the blood of your enemy, then all Demon Lord Dantalian can do is shed a tear

What are you?

You all have been nothing until now

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Stab your spears into the people who have stolen your words, deprived you of your souls, and castrated you of your aspirations Take back everything that those people had stolen fro so, one by one, you all will become wonderful as people

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— Spare me, do not kill me!

— I am a person, I too am a person

— The person who tries to kill me, I have no other choice but to kill them first……

— We are also the same! We also want authority……

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However, listen Your words are tooabout this? These are not words These are the grumbles of a newborn infant It is a noise that is also static I see, though I consider you all as e

Before you all can take the lives of others, you h deep contemplations in order to determine what sort of words should be placed down upon you all Since your language e, and over all else, a language of authority

All of you who offered your taxes to the people in power, obediently faced invading enemies and died, and only kne to resent others because nobody would help you, will forever be dead from now on When the Black Death swept over the continent, your fates have died alongside you

With thedeaths and new births, I give you this royal e

Listen, oh, peasants In the stead of the already dead Gods, a Dee

Screas and respective traps

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Oh, humankind, listen

All of history until now has been the history of class strife

There are tars in the world

One is the war between humans and demons

However, the fact that there is a more tenacious war than that,

a war that has been ongoing for the past 1,500 years without a single moment of rest, at that

Do you, mankind, knohat that war is?

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That is the devastating hich lasts forever

Compared to that, the war between the humans and demons is foolish

The huainst one anotherof the world, however, that massive war has continued on every year, every month, every day, and every second

Free citizens and slaves,

aristocrats and commoners,

barons and serfs,

the suppressors and the oppressed

Are you all still unable to hear

the hoarse voice of devastating war that is being fought by these people?

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This is the eternal war, only this is the true war

Even if the demons were to disappear from the continent

you will all still be at war

As 1,500 years has already flown by, and even if another 1,500 years were to flow by once more,

the war of class, the war of authority will continue unchanged

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To all of the sons and daughters being oppressed in the world, listen

500 years ago, Demon Lords advanced onto the continent for the first tidoms lamented about the conservation oftheir lives in order to protect mankind

Despite that, even after the as over, serfs were still serfs and

the subjects were still subjects

400 years ago, the Demon Lords descended onto the continent for the second tiainst the demons onceHow impressive

You are all truly the shi+eld which protects humankind

Despite that, even after the as over, peasants were still peasants and subjects were still subjects

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If you all were not there, then the continent

would have already fallen into the hands of the Demon Lords

For the past hundreds of years, you all were the guardians of humankind,

and are the owners who have carried the weight of civilization for centuries

300 years later, on this day, the Demon Lords have arrived on the continent

However, what is this? Oh, owners of the continent? You are all commoners who are still serfs, peasants, and slaves

You are the weakest aue!

What have you all died for until now?

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You all have certainly defended the continent

That continent was a land that remained the same before a war had occurred and even after it had broken out

You are still in poverty

You are so poor that your poverty feels like it will be eternal

Even if your mothers catch the Black Death and die in your beds,

you all are impoverished to the point where you are unable to buy even a single herb

You have all lived whilesacrifices

What were those sacrifices for?

You have all lived while going to war

What was that war for?

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For the past 500 years, have you all scattered tens of thousands of lives and tens of thousands of tears in order to protect your poverty? Did you obey those rulers and people in power because all of you desired to forever be i, your fathers being whipped by aristocrats, and your siblings collapsing while plowing the fields, in order to protect this scenery, this continent,

Have you all died until now?

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That is not so

Humankind, the truth is like this

The doms, the emperor of empires, and the aristocrats of domains cry out for is not you

The continent that those nobles want to defend is not your land

Those authority figures have lived to this day not wanting to protect the lives of the people and the land of the people, but solely for the purpose of defending their own lives and their own fortunes

Oh, hus that your ancestors had protected while shedding blood

was not so that belonged to others,

solely the possession of those false nobles

Ah, the war is over but you all are still in poverty!

That is obvious! Since all of you had helped those people in power!

In general, what type of fellows are those rulers? Even if es, they do not dispatch their troops in order to protect you

They have thrown you away, they have thrown you, humans, away Despite that, the instant Demon Lords start to approach, those nobles enforced you all to sacrifice yourselves this tih the Black Death circulated in your villages, those people in power did not provide you all with the cure They had completely thrown you, you humans, away

Nonetheless, once the De you all to sacrifice yourselves

For mankind!

Now theto has beco about is the humans called aristocrats

The continent that they are referring to is solely the land which those nobles possess

What were those humans for?

They were solely the humans for the suppressors

What was this war for?

It was solely a war to preserve that suppression

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What were those 1,500 years of history for?

Continuing on from the past thousand and five hundred years, you have all died and continued to die in order to foolishly pass on your eternal poverty to your sons and daughters!

Oh, mankind, not the mankind that those nobles say with honeyed words,

but you, serfs, peasants, slaves, and true subjects

You, the owners of this land

You, the subjects whonot off? Are you all truly the peasants?

As all of you are the proprietor of this land,

and rather, those aristocrats the parasites

latching onto your skins and veins,

are they not the true peasants who suck on your sweat and blood?

Since they are the peasants, then would it not be appropriate for you all to beco the grains of wheat and corn that you have harvested?

Why do they not protect their subjects when they are attacked byto be the owner?

In the end, why do they collect taxes even though everyone is starving to death?

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That is because they are not the proprietors

Oh, humankind, they are not the owners but they are thieves

They are the bandits who steal everything that you must bask in

The nobles only deprive By depriving, they live in the homes you make, wear the clothes you craft, and eat the corn you harvest

How could this nonsensical conduct have continued for the past 1,500 years?

Humankind, the reason is this

It is because they are holding weapons

There is no other reason than this

If you petition for the taxes to be lowered, they raise their swords

If you plead for therant you herbs, they stick out their spears

If you skip labor in order to nurse your own mothers, they lash their whips

Only with swords,

only with spears,

and only hips

If that is the case, then humankind, what must you do?

What must you all do in order to protect what is yours?

What must you all do in order to not pass down your poverty!?

Will you be sliced by a blade and die?

Will you be stabbed by a spear and scream?

Will you be lashed by a whip until your bones are weak?

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There is one answer! Only one answer!

There is no other choice but to fight force with force!

Raise your axes Grab your crossbows Ar equipment and stab their heads

Make it so that you are the ones to harvest the things which you have cultivated

Make things that are natural, run in a reasonable manner

Do not continue to be fooled that you are peasants

You all are the ones n this land

You are all the ones who are truly huhtfully yours!

You ht!

Since no one will get back the things that are yours in your stead

Fight!

Since no one will live your lives in your stead

Fight!

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Oh, hu!

Only you can justly be referred to as people

Throughout history, ere co!

And now, from this point on

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The war to kill the demons for the nobles is now over

Know that the true ht for your own lives and for your own authority

Let those parasites, who pretend to be lords, knoho the true owners are with your spears, arrows, and pickaxes

Yearn for a world where everyone simply lives as owners

Realize the history where everyone struggles with everyone

Make those rulers shudder before your power as subjects

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Other than your false shackles,

you all have nothing to lose in this devastating war

Only the world that youthat you must acquire, is spread out before your eyes!

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Fight back, humankind!

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This is the language of peasants that I have passed down

As they are urgent and desperate, you must only speak in these ardent screarave of Rosenberg and I are different I do not expect myself to become tame towards you all, and I do not want to only be protected by you The vassals I love the most are the ones who kno to betray others Therefore, I can only love Lapis Lazuli I can guarantee that Lapis will one day gift to me a poisoned chalice I cannot wait for that day to arrive

On the other hand, Huht if they had betrayed another, they should also, at the very least, reap all the benefits they are able to obtain when their betrayal is revealed Even if I were to assuht by me on purpose, to have lost money! How could they have only received half the price of betrayal!? That is why they are lost I have no other choice but to cater for these lost children What can I do? They are shameful fellows

……Imperial Princess Elizabeth is the same asmore than tools However, we also know that words are useful tools of authority

The Iirl ill rip off the entire face of a huoes around with a bunch oftheir naked faces Indeed, there is no other technician who is as outstanding as the I the skin off of faces