Ceasefire

Chapter 638: Ceasefire

"How... how was this possible?" Char sat inside the cockpit of a Warrior painted standard red, with New Zeon emblems on its shoulders and chest, staring at Degwin Zabi on the screen. Shock and disbelief rose within him. Degwin's slightly lowered head gave him the impression of an old man in his twilight years.

Before all of Zeon, Degwin calmly delivered words akin to a self-indictment. He openly placed the blame for the death of Daiken, the Father of the Nation, upon the Zabi family—or more precisely, upon Gihren Zabi. Very few people truly knew what had happened back then. Even Char, the eldest son of the Daiken family, knew nothing of it.

Whether the things Degwin said were true or false no longer mattered. What mattered was that they had come from Degwin Zabi himself. He had placed the guilt for turning Zeon into what it was today entirely upon himself and his son. Once he admitted to those crimes, even lies would become truth.

But in some people's eyes, Degwin had wronged himself by stepping forward to say such things today. He had wronged the Zabi family, which had led Zeon this far. Perhaps Gihren of the Zabi family had his problems. He was a dictatorial warlord who had provoked the war between the Federation and Zeon, leaving Zeon able to see only today and not its future. But Degwin was absolutely not the same kind of person as Gihren. He was a man who had truly given everything for Zeon. Without him, there would have been no Zeon as it was today.

Perhaps Degwin had done some bad things in order to obtain greater power within Zeon, but everything he had done from the beginning had been for Zeon's sake. He had gone to