Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Volume 6 Chapter 23

–A woman, there existed a single woman.

She was still young so one may hesitate calling her a woman.

Coarse clothes on a thin body, green hair with a dark skin burnt by the sun.

A woman of that age should be rightfully called a girl, but her heart was dominated by unending unrest.

It was a natural question to that woman which was never answered.

“—-”

It continued to bother her head all the time, that unending supreme question.

It existed in this world, that white and black — good and evil, that is.

Correct things, wrongdoings.

–Even if there are countless actions in the world, all of those actions would be evaluated as either of them.

For the woman who was still a girl, there was a reason to continue worrying about it. It was inevitable.

The one who divides the woman’s world into white and black, good and evil, good cause and evil cause, these two, was the woman’s own father.

The woman’s father beheaded the heads of the sinners, and his work was to give appropriate punishments for their crimes.

To give appropriate punishment, to the sinner who committed the crime, to give an end to those lives was the father’s work.

“–Executioner.”

That was what the woman said after seeing her father executing and the execution facility, since a young age.

A brutal act, cruel deeds acted upon the living attendants, the execution place was dominated by blood and death.

— the fact that the woman continued to see “death”, was not her own will but her father’s instead.

There will be a punishment for the crime committed, evil is rewarded with a bad fruit.

The father tried to tell the woman about the existence of good and evil in the world, and to believe in himself as an executioner.

The father’s intention was sublime, and must have had been backed by a noble thought.

However, considering the youthfulness of the woman, it was solitary and it was too early to expect ideals from her.

The woman saw several deaths, smelled the scent of blood, and burnt the sinner that had to be punished.

As a result of that, the woman studied the significance of life and appropriate punishment for sins before learning about the theory of death.

Good causes produce good deeds, evil causes cause evil, the sinners’ souls are defiled in accordance with their punishment.

Understanding her father’s teachings, the woman wanted a way to “punish sins”. She asked for what could be a guide on as to what balanced as good and what defined unfavourable evil.

“—-”

However, the balance the woman was looking for did not exist in the area she was looking for it.

There is no simple answer as to what is good or evil, what is right or wrong, sins and punishments depended upon several factors.

“—-”

However, the woman, still young, doesn’t know how to compromise or give up and does not stop.

There must be an answer. There must be a right balance held for what is good and evil.

The answers had to be given to the unending questions in the heart.

“—-”

The days of that conflict continue, but suddenly the answer was given like a grace of heaven.

She broke her father’s cup, and the woman was extremely frightened for the crime she had committed.

Prepared for getting her neck dropped, the woman confessed her sin to her father.

“–Confessing your mistake, and apologizing for it is correct.”

The woman’s father forgave her carelessness, with a smile on his face as well.

The young woman understood the smile of her father and the feeling of the palm stroking her head.

–The balance to measure the crime committed is within the criminal’s own heart, nothing other than that.

Even if no one saw it, the sinner himself is aware of his sin.

Good and evil, are unknown. They’re difficult. No right guidelines for correctness can be found. Cannot be located.

However, the consciousness about the sin is within oneself. There is no criteria for giving appropriate punishment to the sin. However, the consciousness about the appropriate punishment for the sin is still within oneself.

The woman understood that, the woman was satisfied by that, and finally got the balance.

The young woman uncovered the preciousness of life, and ignoring the rule of giving death to the person, uncovered the sins that were deserving of appropriate punishment.

“—-”

The woman walks out under the sun to her executor father and acquaint herself to the punishment he deserved for his sin.

To expose the sinner’s desire to punish.

“—-”

The division of right and wrong, true and false, real and false, was all the culmination of life for the woman.

To the woman’s question, some laugh, some worry, some get confused.

But the answer to the woman’s question is the same for everyone.

–The appropriate extent of the punishment needed for the sin, is within oneself’s heart.

Take a look around. Nobody is there. There are only the sinners who have been punished.

In the end, overcoming her father’s shattered fragments, the woman walks out looking for the sin that needs to be punished in order to give justice to the sinner.

–“The Witch of Pride” questioned sins, punished, and continued judging sinners.

Chapter end