Contrary to expectations, the scene in the underground workshop wasn't particularly cruel.
In fact, it wasn't cruel at all.
Instead, it was rather erotic.
More than ten men and women gathered there, with indescribable images filling the entire screen.
This...
A group party?
That bastard Atram, having so much fun!
Roy stared at the screen, scanning back and forth.
There were only three men: Atram, a muscular man, and a pale weakling. The rest were all women.
That pale weakling was none other than Tomoya Aki.
The muscular man next to him was also someone Atram had brought back from the refugee shelter.
No, on closer inspection, Atram was merely sitting there and not participating.
Tomoya's face was pale, full of resistance and fear. He tried to crawl away but was quickly pulled back.
The muscular man seemed to have some energy left, but he also looked haggard.
Atram sat there leisurely, his face full of amused smiles.
What was this about?
Roy stared at the screen, lost in thought.
Was Atram really so idle? Was he being so kind?
Looking at the women around, Roy didn't recognize any familiar faces among them.
If he remembered correctly, the phenomenon of refugee transmigrants started at the beginning of this month.
By the end of the month today, the refugee shelter in Fuyuki City had received three batches of refugees.
These three batches appeared respectively in the early, middle, and late parts of January.
As a member of the escort team, Roy naturally went to check each time.
The first batch had no familiar faces, and he initially thought the second batch didn't either until he saw Hayasaka Ai, realizing there was one who was quietly taken away by Rin. The third batch included Utaha Kasumigaoka and Tomoya Aki, making only these two familiar faces, with others being nameless.
Currently, among the refugees in Fuyuki City, only Hayasaka, Utaha, and Tomoya were familiar figures to Roy.
What was Atram doing letting two refugee attendants host a party?
Magi usually don't do useless things; they always have clear goals and will stop at nothing to achieve them.
Moreover, magi are very busy, having tasks almost every day. Roy had accumulated all his holidays from last year just to have a few days off now, but even then, emergency support missions kept coming. Despite being so busy, why did Atram come to watch the two refugees host a party? Could it be...
"...Lord Roy, that's enough, please recall your familiar."
An angry voice came from beside him.
Roy snapped out of his thoughts and looked at Utaha, whose face was frighteningly grim.
Always wanting to escape hell?
Isn't she having a great time!
What gives her the right to ask her master for help?
That scene, she found it unbearable to watch!
"Utaha, this matter is probably not as simple as you think."
Just by looking at her expression, Roy could guess what she was thinking.
"This silver...err, one side consists of refugees, while the other side consists of local residents. This is likely not just a party, but more of an experiment."
"...Experiment?"
Utaha clenched her teeth tightly. That kind of thing was called an experiment?
"Magi don't do useless things."
Roy waved his hand to cut off the image and controlled the brass bird to return home.
"Magecraft is something invented and advanced through research. Any concept born from human history, even concepts like reproduction, can be controlled through research and eventually turned into magecraft."
"What Atram is doing is probably close to that. What he's conducting should be some sort of reproduction experiment. Specifically, the topic might be the breeding experiment between you refugees from different worlds and the locals."
There had been three batches of refugees.
Starting from the first batch, there were already refugees claiming to be transmigrants.
Each batch had quite a few people, so this couldn't be concealed at all.
However, most magi didn't care.
Because parallel worlds exist here, so even if they were truly transmigrants, they were probably just from other parallel worlds.
After all, all these refugees were ordinary people without any extraordinary powers.
Although it was shocking that these refugees had crossed over from parallel worlds, such occurrences were not surprising in this city of Fuyuki.
Ten years ago, Zelretch, the Second Magic user who mastered interference with parallel worlds, had appeared in Fuyuki City.
Perhaps that legendary Magic user had done something again.
This was what everyone thought.
However, it was well known that magicians were beings without any moral bottom line. Even with Rin's ban in place, it was not impossible for them to target these refugees from parallel worlds and stir up trouble.
Atram seemed to be one of them.
"Reproduction...experiment?"
Utaha's face turned ashen, as if she had swallowed history.
"Mmm, judging from their looks, they've probably been doing this for several days, likely forced."
Roy speculated.
Perhaps there was an initial stage of "pleasure!" but after so many days of parties, anyone would look haggard and fear women like tigers.
Roy's speculation indeed made sense.
Tomoya refused to talk about his experiences no matter how much he was questioned, and the reason became clear.
Ask yourself, if it were Roy who had fallen into this situation, he would probably find it hard to speak about. If others, especially acquaintances, knew, it would definitely be a level of social death akin to being a devil!
Utaha's face kept changing, her chest heaving violently.
The first person she thought of wasn't Tomoya.
It was the day she had just crossed over and was taken in by the refugee shelter.
"I didn't expect this batch of refugees to have some decent catches. I'll take that woman and that man over there!"
At that time, that dark-skinned bastard said exactly that!
And that bastard's purpose was to conduct reproduction experiments on the refugees!
If at that time, she had really been taken away by that dark-skinned bastard, what would she look like now?
Would she have been captured, surrounded and pinned down by a group of men, doing those filthy and dirty things? And continued until she got pregnant? Forced by the tyranny and power of magi, unable to resist, even resisting might lead to hypnosis, with no ability to fight back, even losing herself?
What a joke!
Thinking of that scene, Utaha couldn't help but tremble all over, wanting to scream, wanting to drive those disgusting images out of her mind.
Utaha experienced firsthand what magi were like.
Never before had she felt such fear towards magi.
She hugged her shoulders, crouching on the ground, trembling uncontrollably, with fear spreading throughout her body.
"It's okay, don't be afraid, I'm here for you..."
She could feel the young man beside her gently patting her back, soothing her spirit.
It took a while before she came back to her senses.
Never before had she felt so grateful to Roy for taking her away.
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