"Mm, got it." Ronglin nodded. "Hurry up and put everything I just said into action! If a war really breaks out, we need to be prepared before the enemy is!"
After the Den Den Mushi call ended, the atmosphere at the scene became somewhat heavy.
Shiryu looked at Chaton and said coldly, "I remember what you told me not long ago. 'You've fallen,' right? Mm, that's right, I have fallen. But what about you? You Navy officer who is willing to serve evil—have you realized that you have no right whatsoever to judge me?"
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Chaton said nothing. Yet his already lifeless eyes grew even dimmer after hearing Shiryu's words. Shiryu had clearly driven another heavy blade into his wound.
Everyone gathered nearby could hear Momousagi's voice through the Den Den Mushi. Her tone had shifted from high-pitched resistance to exhausted gloom, and at that moment, Chaton suddenly felt an unbearable stab of pain in his heart. Momousagi was a piece of his heart; all of her suffering was magnified tenfold within Chaton's own heart.
Could his momentary, absurd actions really have shaken Momousagi so deeply?
Chaton suddenly recalled Ronglin's words. Even the Navy had begun firing on ordinary civilians. If the Star Alliance did not step in to save them, would anyone in this world still dare to face the artillery fire and rescue those innocent people?
Whether Ronglin was being hypocritical or merely softhearted, these were things Chaton had always believed the Navy should do. Yet in the end, they were being done by an enemy of the World Government, while the people who had caused all this were the World Government and Navy officers who were supposed to protect the civilians.
Having been freed from the jealous rage he had once felt toward