Everyone stared at him in stunned disbelief. They had never expected him to skip the ideology and the introduction to the Revolutionary Army, and go straight into teaching people how to rebel.
It was far too unexpected.
"Why?" Ace could not understand it at all. Everything Leo did had deeper meaning, and he could usually grasp at least a little of it before, but this time, he truly could not make sense of Leo's move.
"Three reasons." Leo stretched lazily.
"First, to make these shells spread faster. Let the ambitious treat them like holy scripture, instinctively collect them, and accept our ideas."
"Second, to conceal the truth with a feint. Let them suspect each other. Smart people will not believe this was Akainu's doing, but most people in this world are fools. Akainu's reputation will suffer a fatal blow. Whenever people look at him, they'll associate him with rebellion. I'm going to force him out of the Navy."
"Third, to distract the CP Agency and the Navy, so they discover these things but do not take them too seriously."
"There have always been ambitious people. Disrupting the bigger picture is indeed troublesome and difficult, but it's not as if the Navy has never seen it before."
Leo smiled and continued calmly. "But if our first move is revolutionary thought and ideology, if we immediately take the stance of fighting the World Government to the death and become its absolute enemy, then they will never tolerate us. They'll wipe us out completely."
"But after the first volume, this holy scripture of rebellion, reaches the hands of ambitious people, their instinctive reaction upon seeing these shells will be: Oh, it just teaches people how to rebel. Nothing worth mentioning."
Of course, it was not something that could be dismissed so lightly. But