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After the shock of the previous two days, the third day suddenly became deathly quiet. No one had expected Oran to raise an issue concerning the Ryugu Kingdom at a time like this.
"Some of your nations are located in the New World as well. Merfolk Island is your outpost. If they can stop more pirates, your countries will naturally be safer. Don't you understand such a simple principle?"
Oran had raised this matter because he had made a promise to the Ryugu Kingdom back then. It had been part of the agreement when the merfolk mining team was established.
What Oran was doing now was merely fulfilling that promise.
However, raising an issue did not mean resolving it. At the very least, the others did not feel particularly strongly about it.
"King Oran, are you very interested in those fish of the deep sea?"
"What you just said violates the World Government's principle of equality. A law passed centuries ago clearly stated that fish-men and merfolk are both humans, not fish. Do you have an issue with the World Government?"
The Reverie was not a place where everyone sat together and calmly exchanged opinions. Put bluntly, it was an enormous argument convention. The fact that no one came to blows was already the height of restraint.
Mockery and sarcasm were even more commonplace here, and Oran had plenty of experience dealing with people like that.
No matter what the other party said, do not respond to it directly. Instead, question them from another angle.
Whoever fell into the other party's rhythm first lost. Only by keeping the subject within one's own rhythm could one reasonably win a war of words.
Throwing labels around was merely the most basic tactic, hardly worth mentioning. Even though quite a few people