Editing Unlimited Fafnir:Volume 10 Chapter 4 (section)

===Part 1===

—What am I doing?

Charlotte B. Lord thought to herself amidst pain that was tearing her body apart.

Unlike her father, she did not feel an obligation to "protect the world no matter what."

However, she still followed in her father's footsteps, choosing the path of the sovereign over mankind. This was the "meaning" of her survival with Mica.

She had instantly understood the true nature of the authority as soon as she inherited it. Born to unite the human race, this power must not be used except at a minimal level. Hence, she copied her father's method of ruling the human world.

Conferring super recovery powers and immunity to disease, preventing all manner of death except old age and severe injuries—Using this as the price, she made others obey her wishes within a feasible extent. By establishing this type of contract with the world's ruling class, she slowly conquered the world.

As much as possible, she refrained from invoking her authority to totally control other people's personalities and bodies unless absolutely necessary. To avoid backlash from humans, she also eschewed direct involvement in the world's operation.

She exercised unilateral authority and stood in the spotlight only once. That was the occasion when Midgard gained independence as an autonomous educational institute.

Why had she done so?

Most likely because she had felt a strong sense of empathy.

For these Type Dragon girls, Ds, whose lives were distorted by a power bestowed upon them without consent—

Then after much effort spent, Midgard, now set on a new path as an academy, became an irreplaceable home for her.

However, humans were very crafty creatures.

People tended to show openings when they gained things they held dear, things they wanted to protect. Never missing out on such weaknesses, humans would exploit them thoroughly.

It was not rare for them to use Midgard as leverage to make forceful demands. The current incident was simply one case that had developed into an extreme situation.

—In any case, what they wanted was to ''use'' me as a tool.

Amidst her hazy consciousness, Charlotte looked up at the high ceiling and laughed wryly.

For the sake of eternal peace and stability—While delivering what sounded like grand speeches of righteousness, rulers sought a world where they could persist as winners.

'We would be troubled if the weak did not remain weak and the poor did not remain poor. Otherwise, we could not stay as winners forever.'

Charlotte felt as though she heard their true thoughts.

However, it was true that the world was facing the risk of a war crisis. Left unchecked, it would cause many casualties. If humans were to use weapons that would cause drastic changes to the environment, they could very well walk a path of self-destruction.

To prevent what her father's efforts from becoming futile, she had no choice but to use her authority this way. More importantly, she was forced to accept when the other party threatened her using law proposals unfavorable to Ds and Midgard's various rights as bargaining chips.

Naturally, she could have overrode everything by invoking her authority.

However, when controlling a person, one would have to control others to prevent that first person's betrayal. This would lead to an endless cycle resulting in vast quantities of humans under her control.

Were she to use such a move, there would be no way to restrain her power.

Hence, Charlotte decided to respect the demands and decisions of humans.

However, this provoked NIFL and brought in the current incident.

Using her authority to clean up the mess, she had now lost control and was even getting her own side caught up under dominance as well.

In hindsight, the one who wanted to protect Midgard the most, Charlotte herself, was actually the one who exposed it to danger.

—Seriously, what am I doing?

Although she had definitely done something wrong, she did not know where exactly she had made a mistake.

And she could not think of a solution to rectify her error either.

Most likely, she had become powerless to change the current situation since a while ago. Hence, all she could do was entrust everything to someone other than herself.

Only one face surfaced in Charlotte's mind.

From the very instant when she first laid eyes on that young man, Charlotte had felt that they were "the same."

It was the face of the one who treated her as an equal, her most precious friend.