Chapter 2214
"We can discuss this later. The Earth Sphere and the Solar System do indeed have many resources that require manpower to develop. But how we do it, what kind of attitude we should take toward making these people do it, and whether we should give them a chance to change themselves—those are things we can consider more carefully."
Asaha fell silent for a moment before saying that. But what he meant was clearly that he opposed executing all of those people.
Hearing Asaha's words, Patrick glanced at him and said evenly, "With current technology, once we develop new resource extraction equipment, how many laborers will we actually need? Keeping them around is more unstable than anything else."
With that one sentence, Patrick made his position clear as well. Many members of the Restoration Organization had once belonged to the Federation, and quite a few remnants of Blue Cosmos were among them. Naturally, Patrick hoped that every one of these Coordinators who posed a threat would die.
The lives of more than a million people—perhaps the future lives of two million—lay in the hands of the few people attending this meeting. Asaha hoped to give them a chance to survive, while Patrick wanted them to disappear completely. With the two major figures each stating their stance, that was enough. The rest was left to those below to argue and fight over, and the meeting room immediately became much livelier.
Xiao Ran said nothing. Behind him, Cruze, Yuzes, and Shirakawa Shuu exchanged glances. Then Cruze rose to his feet and, with a chuckle, said, "As for these people, there's no need to kill them. We are not executioners, and we cannot slaughter those who are unarmed and chose to surrender. We'll follow what El-Elf said before: those not deeply implicated