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Futaba explains: It is common knowledge that a demon is a creature of cruelty and baseness, a villainous and dangerous being. There are many sayings and proverbs in folklore that reflect this fact, and, like all folk wisdom, they are not taken out of thin air, but are based on the collective experience of generations – since the times when demons killed and ate people and sought world domination. The same is taught in culture and social studies classes, mostly refraining from judgmental statements, but presenting a dry fact: demons are persecuted and eradicated throughout the world, with the full sanction of the authorities, with the exception of certain poorly controlled and unstable regions of the world, where they gather in gangs and live by banditry. Voluntarily accepting such a dangerous being into one's ranks is like bringing a wounded wolf from the forest, feeling sorry for it, in the hope of nursing it back to health and making it a domestic pet. There is a one in a million chance that everything will end well, but it is more likely that, feeling strong enough to do so, it will tear its "owner's" throat if not at the first opportunity, then at any other moment when its nature prompts it to do so. And this is in the case of a mindless creature; an intelligent being, endowed with reason and awareness of itself and the world around it, may be even more inventive in devising ways to harm those around it, and is also capable of harboring a conscious, poisonous hatred for the world and people for the hardships they have inflicted upon it. As for our specific circumstances, the school has already shown itself to be powerless to protect its students from mortal danger. Several people have died in the first few weeks, and one of the students was killed in a particularly brutal manner. To some extent, this problem is compensated for by the permission to carry personal weapons – at least in the event of danger, a student can try to defend himself to the best of his ability, rather than meekly awaiting death, which may then be investigated. This principle correlates with the school's declared values – the education of independent people who will be able to take the situation into their own hands and guide society in the right direction. However, in the case of a demon, which is noticeably stronger than any of the locals, even the fact that they have weapons does not equalize the chances in the event of a threat to life and health. In this case, the same principle is being applied. The students are not hoping that the wolf will be full or too lazy to attack them, and, having been bitterly taught by their previous life experience, they are showing their civic initiative. Moreover, they are not beating the object of their fear with stones or bullying it out of school – methods with which, for example, I am personally familiar – but are doing so in the most civilized way possible – by appealing to official channels of authority. In order to preserve the well-being of both the collective and the object of the petition, I believe that the opinion of concerned segments of society should be heard and taken into account.

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— That is, not to divide equally, but not to divide according to the contribution made, but simply to grab as much as possible and distribute it among "one's own"? — The demon smirked. — Now, Leila's and Barbarian's positions make sense.

Nice change of subject, and he also brought up equal distribution as if it were he who was proposing it

My sword, my trusted ally, unphased by my aspect.

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