So, admiration was admiration, and attraction was attraction... If Ruotuo did not forgive them, then Veldora would not forgive them either.
And Rimuru was the same.
After all, what happened back then had affected Ruotuo far too deeply. If Ari had not arrived in time, Ruotuo might truly have been controlled by Clayman... In the end, it might even have developed into Ruotuo standing against the Demon Country Federation.
So, Rimuru would not interfere in this matter.
This was something only Ruotuo himself could decide.
If there had to be one exception, then the only person qualified to intervene was Ari.
After all, there were only a handful of people in the Demon Country Federation whose words carried weight before Ruotuo.
Rimuru was one, Veldora, who was also a Dragon King, was another, and then there was... Mo Li, Ruotuo's friend.
Other than those three, no one else's words would work.
And this matter was different. Strictly speaking, neither Rimuru nor Veldora had the right to interfere.
Only Mo Li, who had personally suppressed Laplace and the others to avenge Ruotuo, had that qualification.
But was it possible for Mo Li to plead for criminals like Laplace before Ruotuo?
Laplace and the others had been personally suppressed by Mo Li. Moreover, as Rimuru knew, Ari had been extremely furious at the time and had suppressed Laplace and the others while using the Endless Slaughter Aspect. That alone showed just how enraged Ari had been.
And after suppressing and sealing Laplace and the others, because of the curse laid by Laplace and Clayman, Mo Li had been forced to fight Ruotuo, who had fallen into madness.
It was no exaggeration to say that Mo Li's hatred for Laplace and the others was no less than Ruotuo's.
Logically speaking, with Mo Li's