To cut a long story short.
The root of that rebellion was royal authority.
According to Midgardian rules, royal authority stood above all else. However, Midgard's final royal family had disappeared. Yet under Midgardian law, once the final apocalypse arrived, the person whose genetic makeup most closely aligned with the royal family would become the new king.
According to Midgard's database calculations, this method had earned the greatest acceptance among the Midgardians. The royal family had chosen death at the end of the world, leaving them the hope of survival.
But...
Some of the Midgardians seemed to have picked up a bad habit from the people of Earth.
Take this so-called council, for example.
The council proclaimed that royal authority had been buried alongside Midgard and should never be restored. Then, they launched a rebellion.
That rebellion directly led to the deaths of the bioengineer who had bred the King Kong race, as well as the short-lived king.
In the end,
this so-called council brought a group of clansmen who had no idea what had happened—the more than four thousand people who remained—and resettled them in Revival City. They also designated the old city as a forbidden zone, leaving the King Kong there to face the Skeleton Crawlers, which bred like rats with their enormous reproductive capacity, without any means of reproduction themselves.
So...
"Everyone is free to speak, but the right to speak has to be earned."
Lake shook his head, the corners of his mouth lifting. "That is true democracy. Rather than saying these people I killed outright wanted democracy, it would be more accurate to say they wanted to use democracy as a means of seizing power for themselves."
What did it mean to want all the benefits while pretending to be righteous?
This was exactly that.