Chapter 60: The Vice-Mayor’s Daughter’s Stand

She possessed all of this.

Many people had little understanding of the vice-mayor’s daughter. Yet, she herself knew with absolute clarity that her life was set to ‘easy mode’.

Simply put, from childhood into adulthood, she had never encountered a single predicament.

Even when she watched magical girl anime and told her father she wished to fly, he merely arranged for a helicopter. She sat inside, genuinely experiencing what it felt like to soar through the sky, though she discovered a slight fear of heights then.

Nevertheless, for a typical child, those unattainable desires, those fantasies that could be deemed whimsical, her father always found a way to fulfill them.

As she matured, she gradually understood the esteemed nature of her identity. Of course, there were individuals with even more distinguished statuses than her own.

However, their numbers were truly few. The vast majority of people were not as privileged as she was, and she found no cause for dissatisfaction. Yet, even with the most exalted position in this world, it did not signify true, absolute peace of mind.

When facing certain entities, a noble status often implied greater danger. While the attacks of strange demons were typically random and indiscriminate, the assaults by ‘monsters’ invariably carried a distinct purpose.

In fact, monsters seemed to particularly relish targeting people of high standing.

Aside from their lifelong adversaries, the magical girls, many monsters harbored a desire to ‘make a grand spectacle’. Attacking those with distinguished identities was naturally the method that incurred the least cost while generating the greatest uproar.

After all, monsters were influenced by the power of strange demons, leading their thoughts to always lean towards extremes.

Hazysky City had experienced a massive monster disaster not long ago. For the general populace, however, it didn’t seem like a significant event, as the masked figures had not actually inflicted substantial damage upon the city.

Rather, many citizens perceived a sense of ‘hope’ from the incident.

The hope that incurable diseases could be healed.

Consequently, a considerable number of people spontaneously began to vindicate the masked figures. Despite many remaining indifferent, this phenomenon had already sparked a huge uproar across the internet in Xia Nation. Some even proposed integrating the masked figures into the medical system, offering them excellent treatment so they could contribute to healthcare.

Her father had recently been inundated with interviews regarding this issue, leaving him incredibly busy.

But for Si Kou Ting, who was at the heart of it all, she knew unequivocally that the masked figures could not be accepted.

Perhaps each of them harbored their own sorrow, perhaps they truly held some noble ideal.

Yet, if such technology genuinely existed, why wouldn’t they directly engage with legitimate research institutions? She knew a little about the researcher’s identity. The individual was a top scientist, already conducting legitimate research.

However, the researcher’s ideology was not accepted by mainstream scientific institutions. Simply put:

Any drug trials involving live human subjects had to undergo multiple layers of scrutiny and extensive validation before actual experimentation on willing volunteers.

This individual, however, was a driven genius. Their argument was that since those patients were going to die anyway, why not use them directly for experiments? Accepting their experiments offered a chance at survival; rejecting them meant death within months.

And if an experiment failed, it merely hastened an inevitable death. After all, who could escape mortality?

These patients had already been condemned to death, so why not let them contribute more to the world?

But this individual completely overlooked the fact that, even on their deathbeds, those condemned patients still retained the right to choose where, when, and how they would spend their final moments.

Thus, the masked figures’ experiments were inherently inhumane from the very beginning.

Before the successful appearance of these twelve masked figures, many more patients had been secretly injected with the developed drugs, perishing in agony.

This was precisely why the organization, despite its lofty claims, dared only to conduct its experiments in secret.

If today they exploited terminally ill patients as expendable resources under a noble banner, would they not, tomorrow, use an even nobler pretext to sacrifice ordinary people?

To expect humanity from such fanatical scientists was not a thought those sworn to protect the populace should entertain.

Perhaps the results of their experiments were indeed beneficial to humanity as a whole, but should the voices of those sacrificed be drowned out?

No one is entirely a victim, yet no one is entirely free from sacrifice. True greatness should not come at the expense of others.

Therefore, she stepped forward.

According to the think tank’s deductions, or the AI’s predictions based on the scientist’s psychological profile, something was bound to happen at this sports festival.

Thus, even when everyone advised her against appearing, she resolutely presented herself at the event.

Moreover, with her father present, her importance would be significantly elevated. Simultaneously, the ‘Guardians” power would shift towards her father and the principal. She also allowed her immediate surroundings to become less guarded.

She would be the bait!

This was not a sudden impulse, but a choice naturally made by Si Kou Ting, who had grown up amidst years of abundant happiness, maturing into the woman she was today.

To bear the weight, to shoulder the responsibility.

This was what she, as her father’s daughter, ought to do. The dangerous masked figures could not be allowed to roam the city any longer. To protect the peace of Hazysky City, she had to be here!

She then adopted her stance.

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