It Was Me (Bonus Chapter 3 for "The Alliance Leader Is Tired, Weary, and Enlightened")

When the video began, the speech was already underway.

"...That's right, we did indeed join forces to strike the terrorists! These terrorists had lost all humanity and were massacring ordinary civilians! The United States government will never show mercy in combating terrorism! Our resolve to protect the American people will never waver!"

"...We thank the other side for their cooperation in this operation and for dispatching Special Forces to rescue our citizens and fight the terrorists alongside us. Otherwise, if these terrorists had been allowed to continue, even more ordinary people would inevitably have been harmed."

"However, we will not interfere in another country's internal affairs. We are only combating terrorism. We will not take part in the war between that country's government and anti-government forces; that is their internal affair. But I want to say that we will never show mercy to any organization that kills our civilians! Such as the Dane Military Consulting Company, which we eliminated earlier!"

"Although it was a mercenary organization, it was no different from a terrorist organization. An organization like that was destined for only one outcome!"

In short, the other side's press conference highlighted several points. First, they had acted to rescue American civilians kidnapped by terrorists! Second, the matter of the Dane Military Company had been their doing. That was right—the forty-eight Tomahawk cruise missiles had been launched by them.

So what were you going to do about it? Of course, they had launched them because those people had killed Americans! As for how many they had killed, that was unimportant. Kill even one, and they would kill you. So what?

This press conference had been quite successful. Didn't the American reporters at the scene directly burst into cheers? That proved the other side's strategy had succeeded.

"Ahem. Next year is