Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Did Isa give up her rebellion? No.

Even now, Issa is still instilling liberation theology in the children in the classroom.

It was just that at Lind's request, Isa eliminated those theological ideas, that is, secularized them.

This was not surprising to anyone, because the beliefs of the Capetian Kingdom were diverse, and the Goddess of Light was only the most powerful force in the official belief, but in the North, there were actually many believers of the God of Winter and the God of War.

In such a complex religious environment, it is only natural that Lind asked to remove some theological content.

Of course, Lind did not completely ban it. After all, divine magic really existed in this world, and Lind himself could use the divine magic inherited from the heroine's archives. Denying God would become idealism.

And after removing the theological content, most of the ideas that Isa talked about became equality for all and resistance to injustice, and she required the priests and nobles to work for the people down to earth, which had a bit of reformist meaning.

But in extreme cases, Isa teaches these children to learn to rebel against authority, that is, against the aristocracy.

Overall it is a more radical reformism.

But even so, this is already a heinous crime in any noble territory, but Isa spoke it out openly on the gray collar.

Not only did Lind allow it, he even helped revise the textbooks. After all, those students who listened to Isa's lectures were all good candidates for becoming political commissars.

However, Lind also knew that the so-called reformism was nothing more than a compromise between Isa and himself. If Lind really adopted more cruel means of exploitation, Lind suspected that Isa would launch a rebellion without hesitation.

After hearing Caroline's answer, Isa did not rush to refute, but treated Caroline as her own student and told her what she saw and heard after coming out of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Succor.

Caroline gradually became more and more silent from her original excited and anxious state.

As Kodick said, the North is now in a mess, but is it really all due to the Lars family? The Lars family not only gathered most of the family's troops to resist the invasion of foreign races at the border, but also really brought in relief food. Compared with the detritus of Jager, it can even be said to be noble.

Isa's point of view is more radical. It is not so much that the Lars family is rotten, but rather that the entire aristocratic class is rotten.

As Lind taught Isa, "There is no class that betrays its class, but there are individuals who betray their class."

The same applies in reverse: there are only individuals who betray their class, but no class that betrays its class.

And now, Issa expressed her views to Caroline.

"No, it's all the Lars family's problem. It must be. As long as the Lars family surrenders to the demons, everything will be fine."

Although Caroline was still stubborn, she was obviously shaken. Judging from what Isa had seen and heard along the way, if one had to admit that the Lars family was rotten, then the aristocratic class, at least the nobles in the North, could be said to be rotten to the core.

At least for the sake of their own status and authority, the Lars family has to maintain the overall stability of the North, but those small and medium-sized nobles exploit the common people and collude with foreign enemies to do all kinds of evil. There are many who join forces with merchants to resell supplies to the demons but still hold high positions.

"Especially that shame of the nobility, Reina. I heard that she has committed all kinds of evil in the North, making life miserable for the people."

Caroline was a little hysterical. One was the senior schoolmate whom she regarded as her idol, and the other was the prime minister who cultivated her to become the student union president. Caroline didn't know who to believe for a moment.

Isa did not refute directly, but asked: "Caroline, do you know the feeling of being hungry? Not the kind of hunger you endure on fasting days to worship the goddess, but the kind of hunger you really have no food."

"At first, you feel dizzy, weak and powerless. Then you feel that your body is urging you to eat, and you can even chew black bread that has been stored for several weeks with your teeth."

"Then, black bread was no longer available. Every day, you could only keep looking for edible weeds and tree bark. Then people discovered a kind of soil that was not only edible but also filling, but difficult to digest. Many people died on the roadside with strangely big stomachs after eating it. But it didn't matter anymore, because your body told you that if you didn't eat, you would starve to death. If you ate, at least you could die with a full stomach."

"There is no ethics or morality at this time, and the gospel of the goddess cannot reach the ears of these people. It is not strange to see cats and dogs that have been raised at home for several years being served on the table. But this is not the end. What do you think will happen next?"

Although Caroline was mentally prepared when Isa was halfway through her story, when Isa really said it, Caroline couldn't help but cover her mouth and began to dry heave, because she believed Isa's description so much, as if she had seen it with her own eyes, and even described the color of the fish after it was cooked clearly.

Only then did Caroline realize that she and the nobles in the royal capital knew almost nothing about the situation in the North.

There is no such thing as living dismemberment. Given the current situation in the North, there is no need for the nobles behind the scenes to take action as there are already deformed and disabled people everywhere.

Not to mention the practice of cutting people apart, there aren't even many professional beggars in the North right now. If the reason why there are no beggars in Gray and White Collar is because everyone is well fed thanks to Lind's forced regulation and the strong support of the Lars family, then the reason why there are no beggars in other places in the North is because they are too poor, so poor that even beggars can't be seen.

Seeing that Caroline had barely stopped retching, Isa didn't continue talking, but took out an application form. This was used to apply for a position in the territory. As long as the assessment was passed, she could take up the position immediately.

"I once heard the Lord of Gray Collar say that if you don't investigate, you have no right to speak. When the territory was just beginning to develop, he even personally set up a tent for a day in order to establish the standards for setting up tents. What about you? Don't you consider staying in the North to investigate?"

Caroline took the application form in a daze, her mind full of issues of class and nobility. The scene of cooking people alive described by Isa kept circling in Caroline's mind. Also, Codick's speech, which now seemed a little self-touching, and the current tragic situation in the North were constantly conflicting in Caroline's mind.

Finally, under Isa's worried gaze, Caroline left the school with the application form and lifeless eyes.

But just when Caroline left school, many children on the street seemed to have been waiting for a long time.

"It was her. She said bad things about the Lord and Lady!"

As soon as the words came out, several egg shells were thrown at Caroline.

Caroline, who had received knight training, almost subconsciously caught the eggshells with her hands, but immediately more stones and mud were thrown at her.

One of the children said as he threw the toys: "The lady of the lord just wanted to take my toys away. You nobles even wanted to take my mother away before! Get out of here!"

"Get out! Get out!" The children on the side also started to make a noise. Isa's education was obviously very successful. These children had even less respect for the nobles than their parents, and they were not afraid at all when they saw the gorgeous aristocratic costumes on Caroline.

It can even be said that he hates nobles other than Linde and Reina.

Feeling insulted, Caroline wanted to cast a spell to fight back against these inferior people, but looking at the hateful eyes of those children, Caroline, who was usually able to construct spell models accurately, now couldn't concentrate and mobilize her magic power.

Didn't I come to the North to save these people from dire straits? Why did I become the villain who destroyed their lives?

Caroline was lost in thought, looking at the eggshell in her hand, as if she understood a little what Isa meant by "without investigation, there is no right to speak."

These children who go to school in gray and white-collar schools can really eat eggs.

Caroline, who escaped in a panic, looked at the eggshell and application form in her hand, as if she had made up her mind.

During the subsequent strolls, Caroline no longer caught people with silver leaf coins and asked them whether the North had really become a living hell as Prime Minister Kodick said. Instead, she seriously asked them what they did every day, how much money they earned every day, and what their family situation was like.

Even the original impatience to prove her point disappeared. Caroline was like a bystander, listening carefully to the workers in the territory talking about their own stories.

When Caroline heard a worker tell her how Lind had taken her here from the territory occupied by the demons and how he had sold all his belongings to the people in the territory in exchange for food, she suddenly believed that this unknown viscount could really develop the territory to this level in a short period of time.

After listening to a story about how they escaped here with Isa from the Cathedral of Our Lady of Salvation, Caroline gained a new understanding of the situation in the North. Especially when she heard these people and Caroline describe the demons, Caroline realized that the demons were not a peace-loving race at all.

They launched wars, abducted human women and property, and trampled on fields. They not only raped captured babies, making them cry loudly, but also attacked humans attracted by the crying. They even used human captives as human shields in war, slaughtered children in front of the defenders, and lured the defenders in the city to attack.

There are also many rumors that the demons are conducting cruel human experiments.

This was completely different from the aristocratic wars Caroline had grown up in, which emphasized decency and etiquette, and where the loser only had to pay a ransom.

These demons also claimed that because they were born with the ability to cast spells, they were a superior race like the elves, and that superior races could naturally massacre the lowly human race at will.

Prime Minister Kodick had also mentioned this point before, but he did not mention the massacre carried out by the demons on the border. He only said that the demons, like the elves, were born with the ability to use magic, and like the elves, they loved peace and advocated civilization. It was the evil North that invaded the demon's territory that caused the demons to fight back.

After hearing this, Caroline felt a chill. What on earth had the North been fighting against all this time? How could those demons appear in the capital as peace-loving victims?

Once she stepped out of the perspective of the nobles in the royal capital, Caroline finally realized how outrageous her previous views were. According to the people in the North, these demons could no longer survive in the permafrost in the Far North, so they requested the Kingdom of Capet to allocate a piece of land to them in the North. Because the kingdom was in the midst of the blood fog turmoil at that time, in order to maintain stability on the border, the kingdom and the North actually allocated a small piece of land for the demons to survive.

But now, this group of demons are constantly invading the originally demarcated borders, and claiming that the northern border originally belonged to them. It was their gods who allocated it to the demons thousands of years ago, and they want to drive the inferior humans out of their land.

However, a completely different version of this sentence was circulating in the royal capital. It stated that the demons fought back because the North invaded their land. The version omitted the gods claimed by the demons and the fact that their current land was given by the North. It only emphasized that the North's counterattack was an invasion and that they were the ones fighting back.

After listening to the workers' stories, Caroline felt more and more how ridiculous she was in the past. The worst situation she could imagine for the poor people was just selling their children to lords or rich people. She even thought that the demons were the righteous side. Some people in the royal capital even thought that the demons came to rescue the people in the north who were oppressed by the evil nobles.

But if we say that under the rule of the nobles, people in other territories live a life like hell on earth.

What about those people who keep fleeing to the "Hell on Earth" just to leave the area ruled by the demons?

After asking nearby residents, Caroline finally arrived at the office where she submitted her application. Strangely, almost all the staff in the office were maids and butlers, or people wearing maid outfits and butler uniforms.

But those who came to register were very respectful to the maids who were doing the work, and did not look down on them at all just because they were wearing servants' clothes.

People not only called these people in servants' clothes comrades, but many of them would directly bring eggs, bread or some wild fruits to these clerks, so much so that a maid came out and put up a sign next to them saying "No feeding".

Although it was useless because most people were still illiterate, they would still smile and give all kinds of things to these clerks.

After asking, Caroline understood that comrade means like-minded companions. It is a word invented by Isa. It can be used not only between peers but also between superiors and subordinates.

It is said that the gray-collared lord had a very complicated expression when he heard this word, but he did not say anything in the end. He also encouraged people to call each other like this. Although no one called the lord like this, the maids occasionally heard the lord say something like "I am not worthy of being called a comrade", as if this word had unimaginable weight to the lord.

"Comrade, comrade..."

Caroline kept savoring the taste of this word. What exactly are the so-called like-minded people in this territory? What is the same goal? What is the same path?

"Comrade, are you going to submit your application?"

The sweet and slightly tired voice of the maid called Caroline back. Following the voice, Caroline saw several large words carved on the wall behind the maid. Suddenly, Caroline understood everything and found a goal to which she could devote her life.

On the wall behind the maid, the words "Serve the People" were engraved with a sharp sword.