Strictly speaking, the day Gefra fell, the Gefra Imperial Family's regime had already collapsed.
It was no longer a sound, meaningful "country." It had perished and been annexed.
But the problem was that the Federal Government had recognized the legitimacy of the Gefra Exiled Government, indirectly leading half the world to recognize it as legitimate as well.
Now that the war was over, Gefra had not yet "perished" and had successfully obtained a chance to make a comeback.
If not for the sake of the Federals, the Peng Joe diplomatic delegation would not even have wanted to attend these negotiations! But since they had come, that meant they had no choice but to acknowledge them.
The Federal Government had not yet withdrawn its troops. It had merely transferred the Disabled Veterans back home, while its main forces remained stationed less than seven hundred kilometers in a straight line from the imperial capital.
To the Peng Joe Empire's government, which had nearly exhausted its war potential, this was equivalent to the Federals' knife already being pressed against its throat.
It no longer had the strength to resist anything.
The Peng Joe delegation's Minister of Foreign Affairs gave off an unfriendly, somewhat sinister impression.
He had a pair of blue-gray eyes and a terrifying Hooked Nose.
When he wore no expression, he could scare a child into tears.
"Please forgive my bluntness, but not one of your demands is reasonable!"
"When we occupied all of Gefra, the wealth we obtained came from the war reparations paid by the Empress and the Army Minister, not from plunder."
"Furthermore, from that moment onward, our war with Gefra had already ended, and all diplomatic rights had been transferred."
"It had no direct connection whatsoever with the war that took place in our homeland or its