RAGNA POV...
If my guess was right, then the Steel Knights' duty was simple on the surface and far more complicated beneath it—they were tasked with gathering demon children from scattered corners of the world and escorting us to some final destination.
A place far removed from ordinary human eyes, and judging from the way I had walked past them several times without drawing suspicion, it was likely they either had no knowledge that certain demons possessed Systems or simply did not consider such anomalies worthy of concern.
Yet that assumption clashed violently with the stories I had grown up hearing.
According to the legends whispered by villagers in hushed tones, cursed children captured by the Holy Shrine were executed immediately, branded as death gods in fragile bodies, devilish and cruel by nature, creatures whose continued existence alone was considered a calamity.
If that was true, then why were we still alive?
