After Beating the Game, I Became the Villain BOSS-Chapter 79 - 75: Animal Rights Saint

Standing behind Su Mo was a young girl dressed in a women's business suit, at the age of a recent college graduate, youthful and elegant, with a bright smile, the kind that obviously comes from a well-off family with a promising future.

The Municipal Center was never short of various "second-generation" types; such people were everywhere here.

Su Mo was surprised because the girl in front of him was one of the female protagonists who could be pursued in the game "Dawn".

The girl was named "Tareg Libetong", the only daughter of the founder of the Libetong Charity Fund, embodying all the qualities of a city beauty: highly educated, confident, independent, and stylish.

By rights, Tareg's appearance was considered pretty good, but her popularity among players was extremely poor, ranking first on the "Most Disliked Female NPC in 'Dawn' Game" list.

The reason was simple, Tareg carried a very annoying label - a "sanctimonious hypocrite".

True altruists, however, aren't that bad.

Su Mo actually admired true altruists, rather than disliking them.

Because genuine altruists burn themselves to give light and warmth to others, deserving respect.

Adding "hypocrite" after altruist changes everything.

A sanctimonious hypocrite likes to set lofty goals for themselves but always harms the interests of those around them during the process, regardless of whether others agree, resorting to moral coercion or deliberately putting themselves in danger to force others to save them.

An ordinary sanctimonious hypocrite is already enough to make people feel trapped.

This Tareg is even more peculiar.

Her altruistic target wasn't even people.

It was animals!

In the game "Dawn", Tareg is an extreme animal rights activist and vegan. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Her daily work is dedicated to rescuing chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle, and sheep from slaughterhouses while opposing anyone eating meat.

Because she believes that eating meat is "hurting animals", a form of "violent behavior".

She even denounces behaviors like whaling and hunting in video games, believing they have a detrimental influence on young people.

Every time Su Mo encounters this peculiar animal rights girl while gaming, it makes his head ache.

In a world with a huge wealth gap where countless people at the bottom struggle to survive, her concern surprisingly lies with whether animals, especially farm animals like pigs, cattle, and sheep, are living well.

Since Tareg isn't a character mandatory to pursue in the main storyline, most players don't cater to her and instead do the opposite.

However, to accomplish all achievements, Su Mo was forced in one playthrough to accommodate this animal rights girl, endure her series of stupid views, accompany her in her adventures through slaughterhouses, protest in front of meat trucks, and denounce people eating roast meat in restaurants... and only then manage to succeed with her.

By the time the achievement "You're not picky!" popped up at the bottom right corner of the computer screen, Su Mo was already playing till he lost consciousness, feeling nauseous whenever he thought of Tareg's face.

Nonetheless, he felt secretly pleased.

No matter how absurd Tareg was, she was still one of the "female protagonists".

Some stories suggest Ou Chenyu had known Tareg from the start, with their relationship even being ambiguous.

By interacting with Tareg, he might access information about Ou Chenyu.

Even if nothing is uncovered, he can rule out some possibilities and narrow down the subsequent range of investigation.

Tareg is now proactively approaching the conversation, probably because she saw Su Mo coming out of the Business Bureau and assumed he was a businessman with plenty of money, wanting to secure some funding for her animal protection project.

Su Mo thought to himself: Since I've run into her here, let's use her as a point of entry.

...

Seeing Su Mo standing there saying nothing, Tareg tentatively asked, "Hello? Are you a business person?"

Su Mo pretended to be friendly: "Hello, sort of, what do you need?"

Tareg took out a business card and enthusiastically said, "My name is Tareg, and I am a project manager at the Libetong Charity Fund. My projects focus on animal protection, aiming to protect small animals from harm. You can learn more about it."

KK joined the conversation, scratching his head: "Animal protection... I think more people than animals need protection these days. Many people in the border area are starving, unable to eat enough every day, living under the shadow of thugs, which is particularly pitiful."

Tareg became serious and babbled on, "Sir, animals, like humans, are living beings. They have emotions similar to humans, can cry and laugh, and have the right to survive."

"New Moon City has over a hundred slaughterhouses, countless little animals are raised there only for the purpose of being killed and eaten as their sole reason for existence. Don't you find that pitiful?"

Her words left KK stunned as he replied blankly, "But... pigs, cattle, sheep and such in slaughterhouses are inherently raised to be eaten."

"If someone deliberately abuses domestic pets or wild animals, that should indeed be condemned. But killing pigs and sheep is a normal feeding behavior, I don't think it's wrong, right?"

Tareg's expression soured, her tone becoming intense: "You see, this is the common misconception everyone has! Life in the world is equal; animals and humans are alike, with no distinction between high and low or noble and cheap."

"If you listen to the cries of animals in a slaughterhouse once, you'll realize how shocking the scene is. If your relatives and friends were the ones being slaughtered, what would you think? Could you watch them die? Seeing their meat sold in upscale restaurants as merchandise, wouldn't you feel guilty? Can you eat their meat with peace of mind? Don't you think that's fostering violence?"

This series of attacks left KK dizzy, looking at Su Mo for help: "Bro, this?..."

Su Mo took a deep breath.

Tareg thought Su Mo shared KK's perspective and wanted to try to persuade him: "Sir, I want to elaborate my views..."

Before Tareg could continue, Su Mo suddenly gripped the business card tightly, his eyes fiery: "Miss Tareg, I think what you just said makes perfect sense!"

KK: "?"

Su Mo's pupils trembled, as if tears were about to overflow: "At one point, I was also a meat-eater, until later having intimate contact with those pigs and cattle, I realized all beings have spirits, eating meat is such a sinful act."

KK: "??"

Su Mo looked up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle, his expression full of slight sadness: "Since then, I've become a strict vegetarian, not even eating eggs or milk, because those are also forms of exploitation of animals' bodies!"

"In my view, animals should be treated equally like humans; if oppressed, we should rescue them! Animal lives are lives too!"

"For the sake of adorable pigs and cattle, I am willing to devote myself to the animal protection cause, burning like a flame, continuously burning!"

KK: "???"

Bro, what on earth are you talking about???