The Audience Cannot Just Watch!

When calamitous beasts descend from the sky and all living beings face their end, heaven, unable to bear the suffering, grants mortals a spark of fire. But when the inheritors no longer dare to sacrifice, when the torchbearers lose their original ideals, when the audience becomes mere spectators—when those who should spread ideals bow to power, those who should plead for the people fear death, and those who should participate truly stand by—then where in this world is there light? — Description from novelcodex.org