Chap 126-The Maggot Noble 3

Dunhill Family.

Fira simply introduced them to Alice, saying, “That girl’s damn family wants to conquer the world!” but the actual history of the Dunhill Family was much deeper, spanning the dark areas that ran parallel to human history.

It wasn’t for nothing that the children of the Dunhill Family were said to be descendants of Beelzebub.

From the very beginning, their desires and purpose of existence were reproduction and gluttony.

They eternally craved an unfillable hunger, a hunger that would never be satisfied until they filled the world with wriggling maggots.

Therefore, the Dunhill Family had been deeply involved in human history from the very beginning.

They lent power and wisdom to royalty.

At times, they became murderers, wiping out entire races.

Occasionally, they pretended to be saints and saviors, reaching out to the innocent.

They were a collection of insects mimicking human shells, and each of those insects possessed reason and intelligence beyond that of humans. At the same time, each insect wielded all sorts of abilities, including magic and supernatural powers, so it was practically a miracle that this wasn’t a disaster.

The reason why the Dunhill Family could still be treated as ‘humanity’ even after the Ark was built was because their deep involvement in human history and their significant contribution to the establishment of the Ark were acknowledged.

Even though their essence was that of the descendants of the Lord of the Flies, hideous insects, they could at least imitate and mimic the human form.

Frankly, from the Dunhill Family’s perspective, humanity, including humans, was an incredibly inefficient race.

From the moment civilization arose, humans created slavery and the caste system, and for over a thousand years, humans had been objects of trade from birth, with even the value of children being determined by a few coins.

Even Marx, the original creator of the red ideology that Alice spread in the lower layer, treated humans as commodities, saying that all that humans and workers had to sell in the market was their labor.

Even now, in this world where the Ark, the last Ark, has been built and the disasters outside threaten humanity, they are still talking about becoming one, and even in modern times, humans are still commodities, products of a class system that differentiates them from birth.

Here, the insects of the Dunhill Family think like this:

[If we’re going to be treated as commodities anyway, give us humanity’s place.]

[Why not concede the act of playing at the top of the food chain to us?]

[We are human.]

[We will be the lords of all creation.]

Thus, no matter what mask the Dunhill Family wore, their desire and purpose were only one.

To fill the whole world not with humans, elves, or demons, but with the properly evolved descendants of Beelzebub.

[We can make the world a better place.]

[We will balance nature and the world, and the descendants of the Lord of the Flies will properly harmonize the human-centered world.]

Of course, that’s nonsense too.

Even the Dunhill Family, who said such things, ultimately sacrificed their descendants to the point of grinding them in a blender to make a fine ‘masterpiece’, and they themselves were no different from humans, being selfish and discriminatory.

The descendants of the Lord of the Flies were simply envious and jealous of humans.

Still, the difference from humans was that the descendants of the Lord of the Flies had never forgotten their purpose of existence.

To fill the whole world with themselves and their descendants, and to regard it as a natural happiness and a righteous providence for both the world and themselves.

So these insects, no matter how long the process, were willing to sacrifice themselves to contribute to the family.

[I will gladly give my life for the family.]

[A child born from mating with my uncle will be stronger than me, so I will gladly grind my body to make an elixir.]

[For our children. For stronger children. Die, honey.]

Devouring each other, mating, and scenes that would be considered taboo by human standards were endlessly repeated in the darkness of the Dunhill Family.

Even though they had ego and reason like humans, they were willing to sacrifice themselves if the family could take the place of the lords of all creation.

If they were like that to their own family members, they were even more cruel to outsiders and other humans.

The Dunhill Family possessed many of their own layers and territories.

And the purpose of all of them was human elixir.

Just as humans raise cattle to slaughter and eat, the Dunhill Family also raised humans, elves, and other human races to grind and drink for the family’s ‘masterpiece’.

And of course, the children of the family were subject to the same.

Even if they suffered from terrible pain from birth, as if they had chewed on hellfire, and died prematurely, the maggots of the Dunhill Family would dutifully give their bodies to fulfill the reason for the family and race’s birth, without even a hint of doubt.

Is a sibling stronger than me?

I gladly give my body to be eaten.

Is my mother stronger than me?

I can always have more children.

Eat, become an elixir, become a masterpiece, mix, mate, eat and eat again.

This was the identity of the Dunhill Family, called hideous maggot bastards.

But to these descendants of the Lord of the Flies, Fira Dunhill was an irregularity in herself.

As soon as her ego was established, Fira Dunhill hated her family and race.

She prioritized herself over the family or the purpose of her birth, and she still harbored resentment for the hellish pain she received as a larva who couldn’t even imitate the human shell, and for the vomit-inducing taboos of having to stuff her family and siblings into her mouth.

The problem was that if such an irregularity was born, the family could just kill her.

If not, they could just grind her into a blender and use her as nourishment for another new ‘masterpiece’.

However, Fira was an individual who was said to be a masterpiece of the Dunhill Family, appearing only once every few thousand years.

Even with the pain and hatred for herself and her family in her heart, she gritted her teeth and hid it, and thanks to that, until Fira revealed her rebellious spirit, the Dunhill Family poured all sorts of investments into Fira.

They even had expectations that they could fill the Ark and the whole world with maggots through Fira.

That was until Fira openly declared her hostility to her family and race.

Don’t let me see you.

If I see you, I will kill you.

If you try to persuade me, I will catch you and use you as nourishment.

I am not interested in the crazy things my family does, so don’t ever let us see each other again.

When Fira’s insects were immature, the Dunhill Family tortured her, but now the situation had been reversed.

From the Dunhill Family’s point of view, they could say, “Aigo, that damn girl, we fed her, housed her, and raised her, and she doesn’t even know gratitude…!” but the strong being the law was the same as ever, so the family had no choice but to try to persuade and appease Fira in the most gentle way possible.

Currently, Fira had become strong enough to take on the role of commander-in-chief of the external expedition team. From the Dunhill Family’s point of view, they invested time in trying to win Fira back, as they didn’t know how long it would take for a new masterpiece like Fira to appear.

Thus, the Dunhill Family had to find a new method.

If they couldn’t persuade Fira, they would create an environment where she had no choice but to be persuaded.

If humanity and the Ark were destroyed, Fira would inevitably fill this world with the descendants of the Lord of the Flies.

Thus, the radical and extremist insects of the Dunhill Family attempted not only to win Fira back, but also to destroy and collapse the Ark.

“So, what, it’s treason? Can’t Fira report them?”

Judging by the fact that Fira ate Sebunia alive, she doesn’t seem to have any attachment to the family…

And Alice knew that the Ark was sensitive to treason.

It was only recently that the mega-corporation Ernest Rail was dismantled as soon as evidence of treason was caught.

Even if they let most things go, the central administration would try to deal with ‘treason’, which was trying to disrupt the order and balance of the Ark, no matter what.

“The old men of the Dunhill Family aren’t fools.”

Fira sat in her chair, frowning as if she had a headache.

There were several reasons why even Fira, who had become a masterpiece of Dunhill, couldn’t physically eliminate the family, but it was because their existence was better than the chaos of their absence.

“The old men hold positions in the Ark, regardless of the business or political world, and make various contributions, but treason can only be dealt with if ‘evidence’ is clearly caught. Even if I suddenly go to the administrator and say that my family is involved in treason! Things won’t be easily handled.”

Indeed, that was the case.

The Dunhill Family had been treated as humanity since the founding of the Ark, and were naturally among the highest of the central vested interests.

It was natural that the elders of the family held all sorts of layers and important social positions. These people don’t easily leak evidence of treason.

What if evidence is created?

Or what if it gets leaked?

They cause ‘accidents’ regardless of whether they are related or ordinary people.

Aigo, that’s terrible. Is it hard to silence them?

Then a Gate bursts in the layer and the collapse sequence is activated.

The descendants of the Lord of the Flies of the Dunhill Family are those who have been with human history.

They are incomparable to the mega-corporations that were caught plotting treason.

The Dunhill Family was capable of razing the layers of the area to the ground in order to destroy evidence of treason.

“It’s a truly embarrassing story, but my family is plotting the destruction of humanity in many ways. They support and operate behind the scenes in anything that causes chaos and destruction. Sebunia’s approach to Alice is also related to that.”

“That woman Sebunia told me that her son died? Was that also fake?”

“Ah, that’s real.”

“Huh, I can’t remember at all…?”

“Do you remember the Caracas Heavy Industries layer where the blood contamination broke out?”

“Heavy Industries layer? Ah…”

Then something flashed through Alice’s mind.

When she first went to the Caracas Heavy Industries layer where the blood contamination had occurred, guided by the Hush gang, she felt an unidentified gaze from somewhere as soon as she entered the black block’s heavy industry section.

Alice, who was sensitive to gazes, naturally activated the sensors in her body and spread her energy, confirming the existence of an unspecified number of maggots.

The maggots seemed to be monitoring Alice for a while, but then they disappeared in an instant, as if they had teleported.

“I have a guess.”

“Sebunia is an extremist faction in the Dunhill Family that supports anything that can be harmful to humanity. Perhaps Sebunia sent her son to the lower layer to spread blood contamination or extract a sample of it.”

“A sample? Are they trying to carry out a blood contamination terror attack on the upper layer or the center?”

“Maybe? But our Alice killed that Sebunia’s son, so there’s nothing to worry about! Ohohoho~!”

“…Tsk.”

“What’s wrong?”

“No, I’m said to have killed that woman Sebunia’s son… but I’ve never met that maggot son, and he disappeared in front of me using teleportation.”

“…Ah.”

At those words, Fira’s face turned pale.

Just think about it.

The maggot of the Dunhill Family, who was suspiciously operating in the area where the blood contamination broke out, disappeared before Alice’s eyes using teleportation or something.

At the time, she didn’t think anything of it.

Alice didn’t know the reality of the Dunhill Family, and she had no way of knowing that the maggot was the one who spread the blood contamination at the time.

But the person who might have spread the blood contamination in the Caracas layer disappeared.

Dunhill Family.

To be exact, he cut off contact without even telling his mother whether he was alive or dead, and his mother, Sebunia, came to Alice on the pretext of killing her son, so it meant that he had voluntarily left the family.

It is common for children from high-ranking families to attempt to run away from home or experience a brief period of wandering, but the maggots of the Dunhill Family, with the exception of Fira, are those who sacrifice even their own lives for the family.

Such a person.

With something that could cause blood contamination, he disappeared?

“Oh, this is pretty fucked…”