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Chapter 32 The Dignity of Security Guards

Darkness, terror!
In the dark and profound fantasy, Luca suffered mental torment even more terrifying than Tsukuyomi!

This extreme mental torture would turn even the toughest man, with a strong magnetic field, into a lump of mud.

When Luca came to his senses, he found himself collapsed in a pool of unidentified liquid...

At this moment, it finally felt the terror of the revolutionary army commander!
Faced with such terrifying power, no one in the world would want to be its enemy!
A death decree woven from black feathers tore through the sky, and the circling flocks of crows, like apostles from the underworld, cried out as they fell to earth through the clouds.

After a chilling intimidation, the crows in the sky issued their final ultimatum, their voices icy and piercing.

"What Royal Guard... In the end... you're just a bunch of security guards, aren't you? You have no value or need to die on the battlefield... because you're just watchdogs... you're not even soldiers... If you don't want to die, get out of here..."

Faced with this blatant insult, these members of the Royal Guard, who possessed such high status and honor, felt...

Damn, it's like a pardon!

Damn it, we're just blue-skinned dogs, and the security guards are just watchdogs. Isn't that an obvious fact?

"Captain, my pants are wet. Requesting a strategic retreat!"

"This is a Cybertronian invasion, a situation we can no longer handle!"

"Ugh, what's the point of working yourself to death on 3000 a month? Everyone, hurry up and get some!"

Looking at the royal guards scattering like birds and beasts around him, Luca stood there, a sense of indescribable melancholy welling up in his heart.

Just ten minutes ago, it was filled with boundless aspirations to be a royal guard, its heart brimming with lofty ideals and pride in being a royal security officer.

But at this moment, everything it was proud of was ruthlessly crushed by fate.

Those resounding vows and tireless training day and night have all become a farcical joke.

When all great ideals collide with reality, they make the hollow sound of a can of dog food rolling down the stairs.

Luca looked around in a daze, as if he were in the middle of an absurd farce.

The army commander, Raven, swept his gaze across Luca with a sharp, knife-like gaze, and coldly emitted a trembling sound like a broken harp string.

"What, kid... do you still want to fight... there's absolutely no need... this place has been liberated... get out of here..."

Yes, there is no need to continue fighting.

I should be like other dogs, tucking my tail between my legs and quickly leaving this place of trouble.

This kind of battlefield is not a place for security guards like them; it's not worth losing their lives for.

As Luca instinctively tried to run away, a blinding white light suddenly flashed through its mind, and memories flooded back like a tide.

Some familiar words echoed clearly in its ears.

This area has been liberated. You have no value or need to continue fighting. Leave immediately.

The floodgates of memory burst open at that moment, and countless images surged forth like a burst dam, unstoppable.

Luca finally recalled the nightmare that it would never forget!
That night, faced with the green-haired man and the raging fire at the farm, it abandoned its dream and dignity as a security guard and shamefully fled!
From that moment on, it was no longer a security guard, but a shameful, homeless dog, having lost its only dream and dignity.

At this moment, everything felt like a nightmare repeating itself. Should they still try to run away?
Luca's body trembled violently, and he was soaked in cold sweat.

At this moment, seeing the appalling state of the royal guards before it, it understood that security guards were never respected.

Even the royal guards were seen by the public as nothing more than watchdogs that could only tuck their tails between their legs and run away when faced with a formidable enemy.

Everything we cling to may never have existed in the first place.

Dreams and dignity are nothing but self-deceiving rhetoric.

What dreams can a security guard have? What dignity can a security guard have?
But... what could I do? I didn't have any other skills, so I could only work as a security guard.

So it could only deceive itself, thinking that there are people in this world who dream of being a security guard, that being a security guard is dignified, that there's nothing wrong with it, that protecting the peace of the area is a sacred and important job, and that it, too, is a blue-skinned dog living with dignity and dreams...

Unbeknownst to him, Luca's eyes were already brimming with tears.

It finally came to its senses and realized that it had been immersed in a beautiful dream it had woven all along.

The so-called dignity of security guards is nothing more than a pathetic excuse for not accepting the cruel reality.

After understanding all this, it looked up to the sky and let out a roar that resounded throughout the heavens and earth.

"Stop! Stop running away! Stop trampling on the honor and dignity of the Royal Guard!! We security guards are already worthless and have nothing to be proud of. If we lose even this last vestige of dignity in our duty... wouldn't we truly have nothing left!!!"

Luca didn't know whether these words were a cry to his colleagues or a redemption for his own soul, but at that moment, he felt an unprecedented firmness in his heart!
That's right, a security guard's dignity is just self-deception. But if he loses even this self-deception, he will really have nothing left!
If accepting reality means losing my dreams, I'd rather live in my dreams and be a fool!
The trembling in his body stopped, and a light rekindled in Luca's eyes.

Everything that was once lost seems to have returned to this empty shell.

Luca has once again reclaimed his dreams and dignity!
Shocked by the powerful will contained in that shout, all the fleeing watchdogs, along with the crows in the sky, froze for a few seconds.

A few seconds later, as if the pause button on the video had been removed, the performance continued, and everyone went their separate ways, still playing their respective roles.

Adults' values ​​are usually exceptionally strong, and their accumulated knowledge over many years is rarely shaken by a few impulsive words.

Ultimately, perhaps only Luca is the fool in this world who would believe that security guards have ideals and dignity.

"Gah...you nonsensical thing...you wasted several of my seconds...you're a security guard and you're talking about dignity...that's just wishful thinking...security guards don't need self-righteous idiots like you..."

In the sky, countless dark crows swarmed together to form a terrifying raven that blotted out the sun. Darkness swallowed all light, as if the end of the world had arrived!

This terrifying black crow, which has gathered together, is a hundred times more powerful than before, exuding an aura of death that inspires despair!
It is foreseeable that, faced with such a terrible attack, his fate will inevitably be a humiliating death!
But Luca did not waver in the slightest, and it activated [Guard] with all its might!
In a fundamentalist Pokémon game world, Protect might actually be able to block the opponent's attack.

But this is the free world of pirates, and "Protect It" and "Iron Body" are both considered last words.

In the final moments of his life, Luca left behind his last thoughts.

Oh no, I'm going to die...

But I finally held my post and upheld the dignity of a security guard. I have...

I can die without regrets!!
[Protecting] It may not have been able to protect Luca's life, but it protected the last dignity that belonged to a security guard.

(End of this chapter)