"Comrades, we've come to take you home!!"
The deafening shout rang out, and "Iska" and "Ivankov" in her arms burst into tears.
They had not been abandoned, nor had they been given up on.
Even if they were merely ordinary members of the Revolutionary Army, Leo would still come to save them.
Take Bon Clay, for example. As an okama, he was considered beneath ordinary people by conventional society, and discrimination was simply expected. Yet within the Revolutionary Army, with Ivankov and Leo there, he had suffered almost no discrimination.
After that, Bon Clay had continued working on the infiltration front.
The Revolutionary Army adhered to the principles of no assassinations, no bribery, and no seduction. As a result, the infiltration front and hidden agents had developed their work with great difficulty.
But once they achieved a breakthrough, their intelligence operations immediately began to flourish.
As their intelligence network expanded, the former Baroque Works assassins on those infiltration fronts gradually came to understand why Leo insisted on no assassinations, no bribery, and no seduction.
Assassinating enemies could create panic throughout society. Compared with direct violence, discipline, revolution, and riots, the feeling of everyone in an otherwise peaceful society fearing that death might come for them was the true cancer that destroyed trust between people.
Moreover, the duties of personnel on hidden fronts were often completely different. Perhaps a City Guard captain in a critical position had only just been won over. If there had been an assassination unit, it might have killed one of their own without distinguishing friend from foe, rendering the work of other teams pointless.
So, no assassinations.
No bribery was even simpler: if you could buy him today, then tomorrow he could sell you to the king or the World Government for a higher price.
So,