Mishil Kent was slightly taken aback, then gave a wry smile. "Suddenly I feel like you just slapped me in the face, and it really hurts... But you really do understand things more deeply than I do. Maybe that's the limitation of being one of the rentier class and the predatory class."
"That's not a limitation. It's just a failure of imagination. We all come from the rentier class and have never truly interacted with people at the bottom, so we can't imagine what they think or feel. But Hachiman is different. He was, after all, a military and political all-rounder who oversaw the construction of all of New Jade Gate," Wayne said with a sneer.
"You don't have to sound so sarcastic when you call me a military and political all-rounder. Still, I am rather proud of myself." Akina Mountain Hachiman polished his glasses until they were spotless, then put them back on.
Horatio Wayne ignored him and continued, "You need to have more confidence in yourself. Yu Lian may call you a fussy pain in the ass, but you're still the best thinker among us."
"A, a pain in the ass? You're going too far now! And why does it turn into slang when you're talking about me?"
So you only heard the first half, huh?
Anyway, if Horatio Wayne hadn't already been looking impatient, they might have gone on discussing the nature of society a while longer. But debating this sort of thing in public did risk looking like political posturing, so it was better to get back to the point.
In the "War of Judgment," the Empire and the Commonwealth had each sent more than a hundred thousand ground troops down to the enormous planet in the shortest possible time. It was obviously about grabbing land—no,