"A great evil?"
Confused expressions appeared on everyone's faces. Miss Huang and Lacus exchanged glances, then both shook their heads to show that they did not understand what Xiao Ran meant.
Those who had accompanied the captains aboard the Burning Legion—such as First Officer Sanada, Kaoru Niimi, Akihito Tenkawa, Yurika Mitotsudaira, Kira, Athrun, Richard, Tieria, Setsuna, and Amuro—also looked bewildered, though they clearly took the matter seriously and were greatly surprised.
Seeing their reactions, Xiao Ran realized that those present probably knew nothing about this so-called great evil. Even if some of them had heard the term before, their understanding of it was not what he had expected.
After a moment of thought, Xiao Ran said, "It seems none of you know anything about the great evil. I heard the term from Banjo Haran and Mai Senpuuji. They felt that some pure malice was controlling the world from behind the scenes—more accurately, perhaps it was controlling all three worlds."
"Originally, I didn't take it to heart. But after AmbriO was dealt with, I had another feeling: perhaps the great evil really does exist. It was a very sudden feeling. Simply put, AmbriO was far too weak. I'm not looking down on him, but he simply wasn't capable of truly orchestrating everything."
As Xiao Ran's words fell, the people in the conference room revealed varying degrees of strange expressions. Their looks were strange, and so were the gazes they gave Xiao Ran. There really was no one else qualified to call AmbriO weak. Xiao Ran had wiped out so many AmbriOs by himself and scared AmbriO's true body to death. None of them could achieve such a feat.
Though those present might have had different thoughts, they had no way to refute Xiao Ran in front of him. After all, to