Chapter 400: Judgement and Morality (1/2)

Alex stayed on the side of the carriage with his head drooped down. Just moments prior he had seen the corpses of the men just thrown away into the jungle.

Event the one attacking at the front had a few of themselves killed and they were thrown aside like that as well.

Kill.

He had made up his mind to kill any who could harm him. It was half made by him because he didn't want to reincarnate in the game, and half made because that was what he was told to do by his master.

He had killed 2 people by now. One was a clone, an already dead person that was being used by someone sinister to torture people from his sect.

And his death had been an accident.

The second one was somebody strong that wanted to use his power to have some things of his for himself. He went so far as to even nearly kill him to get the things he wanted.

And his death was something that technically happened as an accident as well.

Were they both bad people? Yes.

Did they deserve to die? Yes.

If he knew where their fate was going, would he have tried to change it? No.

Did he kill them? ... Maybe.

Alex still wasn't sure if the two people he did kill could even be called killing. One was a dead man walking and another was killed by something inside of him.

One could argue that neither of these men was killed by Alex. Even if argued the opposite, Alex was fine with it.

They were bad people and they deserved to die.

Were the bandits bad people who deserved to die? Yes.

”Then why am I feeling so bad?” He asked himself. ”Am I feeling sympathy for them? No. I know they are bad people, but then why?”

The caravan moved along. He however still kept thinking back to the bandits that were killed.

”Is it because I now believe they are real people?” He thought.

He had hit the problem on its head. He had come to terms with killing, but that was only in the 'game'. There was no way he was ever going to kill people in real life.

Now that he believed the game to be real life as well, he was having a problem coming to terms with killing people.

Did someone really deserve to die just because they were bad?

Just moments earlier, Alex would've said yes to the question without thinking. But now that he realized what he truly believed regarding this world, his sense of judgement also followed his perception of the world.

If this world was real, then he would use his real-world morality here as well.

Did bad people deserve to die? No.