Humanity Has Declined の小説・ストーリー

The desire to have more, to control more, began to grow in their hearts. Competition, which had never existed before, infiltrated human life. They began to race for more-to build bigger, to claim more territory, and to seek greater dominance. Eventually, the once sacred earth was scarred by their insatiable greed. This growing desire blurred the wisdom that had once been the foundation of human life. Compassion had withered, and cruelty had replaced reason. Conscience had all but disappeared, and nature was on the brink of destruction.

By the war's eighth year, approximately seventy percent of the human population had been lost to conflict, displacement, and resource scarcity. Seventy percent. I read it again to make sure I had understood correctly. Seventy percent of every human who had existed before the war—gone. In eight years. My throat felt tight, but I kept reading. 'The moon goddess's intervention in the war's ninth year created a biological dependency that necessitated a formal peace.' A biological dependency. Another half truth. I grit my teeth, the strange sensation spreading faster, making my pulse hammer in my ears. 'The Human Management System was the council's solution to this dependency, designed to ensure

How I wish now that I can take it all back. “Why?” She abruptly looks up at me. The whites of her eyes are red and filled with anger and accusations. “Why did you do this to us?” “I thought I was doing the right thing,” I say softly. “What did the humans do that was so terrible?” Of course, she doesn’t truly understand. How could she? We’ve been in charge for almost a hundred years now, and the humans alive today have no idea how bad things truly were. Reading about it in books and living it are two different things entirely. “The world was on the brink of collapse. We...I acted out of desperation.”

------- Kaelin's pov Several decades ago, the Fall began with what we called the Purity Wars. Dumb greedy corporations started pumping gene-fixes into the water to “perfect” humanity. Some said the governments were neck-deep in it too pulling strings from the shadows. Either way, the fixes worked too well. Babies were born wrong: monstrous, incomplete, or not at all. Genetic chaos spread through bloodlines. The world population dwindled slowly at first, then collapsed as the mutations took hold and fertility became rare Chaos basically ensued. Plagues followed, then the earthquakes that split the continent like a rotten fruit.

“Juvia is clearly a human who possesses such a powerful strength, yet she led the Undying Clan to commit the great sin of taking lives and the barbaric massacre of ordinary people. Could it be that she’s really devoid of humanity?” A voice rang out. “How could the Undying Clan possess humanity? In their eyes, humans are inferior to ants. They will be happier if we go extinct.” The one who came was none other than Agatha Haisley. “Not only were the three thousand great worlds in the ancient era, but there were also numerous small worlds with a multitude of races that flourished together! Back then, there were thousands of Heavenly Emperors and kings of gods alone, but look at how many kings o