Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 158 - Discrimination

Long Di stared from a distance, watching everything play out with an apathetic gaze. “So what are we watching here?”

Yaomu Shou, who stood beside him, could feel her blood rising when she saw this. “Something that’s becoming a real problem.”

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“And what would that problem be exactly?” I asked her as I watched everything play out while I wondered what I was doing with my life.

“Discrimination,” Yaomu Shou answered.

“Oh, so that’s a thing here too, huh?”

“What?” Yaomu Shou asked.

“Nothing, just… universal disappointment.” I really didn’t want to get into that.

Yaomu Shou chose to explain what was really happening. “You may not have seen it where we were previously, but recently there has been an increase in demons acting on this notion of purebloods being superior.”

“Purebloods?” I could see where this was going on.

Yaomu Shou nodded. “Right. Basically, the original demons. The ones who, hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of years ago, carved out the region that is the current Demon Region and lived here uncontested because of their power.”

“I don’t get it. Based on what I’ve seen, you guys don’t even know all the kinds within your race. How can you tell who’s pureblood from who’s not?”

Apart from me, no one else was a victim of racism or specism. At most, they were just victims of being poor.

Yaomu Shou paused for a moment to formulate a proper response. “Alright, so, for example, let’s use what junior sister Shen Ling was accused of being.”

“An Abyss Ghost?”

“Y-Yeah,” She sounded nervous when discussing this particular subject. Maybe I should treat it as such.

“So what you need to know is that the Abyss Ghost was considered a race all its own. However, following their calamity, they, or their name rather, were relegated to being a species of demonkind. Then you have races that came to live within the Demon Region that were not necessarily demons, to begin with, but when you take into account, the hundreds or even thousands of years of close contact and the subsequent procreation with thes

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