"You fool! This is madness!"
As El-Elf explained the situation to Zechs, Xiao Ran finished reading the report El-Elf had sent over. The moment he was done, he slapped the table several times and began cursing.
At that moment, Xiao Ran felt that Zechs's sister, Lilina, was simply an idiot—a complete fool. Perhaps Lilina truly possessed lofty ideals and hoped to bring lasting peace to the world. Cutting military forces due to insufficient funding was understandable enough, but not only had she proposed a disarmament policy, she had failed to properly oversee the MS that were supposed to be scrapped after it was implemented. Nor had she made any proper arrangements for the discharged soldiers. Did she really think that just saying "disarmament" would bring peace to this world?
What else could someone with such ideas, and who actually put them into practice, be if not an idiot? They had once possessed absolute Military Strength, yet the entire New Federation had failed to use that power to completely subdue the Earth Sphere. Instead, it had hesitated like a punching bag, been pressured step by step into disarmament, and forcibly turned itself from a leader into a follower. They had torn a winning hand to pieces. Damn it, there was no need to even play the game—they might as well have surrendered outright.
No wonder this mission lasted a full year. When Xiao Ran first arrived in this world, he had guessed that this was probably the Endless Waltz storyline. Given the scale of Endless Waltz, it probably would not have lasted Xiao Ran and the others even a week. Now he finally understood why the mission duration was a year. The scale of the Endless Waltz rebels had been magnified countless times. How were these Rebel Forces? Those preparing to