"Huh?" Kira was stunned. "But didn't Chairman Durandal say he would protect everyone?"
"PLANT did send aid, but most of it never reached the lower levels," Inori Yuzuriha said. "With twenty million worth of supplies, under ideal circumstances, about half can make it down to the lower levels."
[Taking cuts and demanding bribes]
[If you don't take any, and I don't take any, how is Commissioner Smith supposed to take any?]
[Relief supplies should use bran, not polished rice]
[This world is bizarre too. They fought one major war, yet the contradictions somehow got worse
[Just compare them. In the previous battlefield, PLANT lost two satellites, while Earth lost tens of millions of people, but only one New York]
[Only one New York]
[Yeah, the financial center was blown up, but the population didn't decrease by much. Of course there'd be problems]
Inori Yuzuriha continued in a cold voice, "PLANT was previously at a disadvantage in terms of public opinion, and the impact of the New York incident still remains. But after PLANT's two colonial satellites were destroyed, the atmosphere of public opinion has already reversed. In a sense, if PLANT's capital continued to be destroyed, it would completely overturn PLANT's 'victim image.'"
[Fuck, Durandal is scheming]
[Who could have expected this]
[Inori: Little brat, I've got you all figured out]
[Inori saw right through Uncle]
[This move is truly ruthless. One wave and the situation turns around]
[Were they really originally planning to sacrifice the capital?]
[So Inori actually ruined Durandal's plan?]
[Holy shit, that really might be true]
"Would Chairman Durandal really be that kind of person?" Kira murmured.
"I don't want to believe it either," Lacus said, "but the intelligence I gathered..."
"We have the 'truth.' As long as we exist, we can force Durandal's hand. At