Smoker calmly laid out their thinking. Clearly, this was not without precedent.
In Leo's world, there had also once been a group of people who, after awakening to national consciousness while facing a country ruled by another race, chose to assassinate good officials and capable administrators, sabotage the empire's ability to function, and ultimately make more people unable to survive, forcing them to rise up in rebellion.
Likewise, Smoker joining the Revolutionary Army had been a form of acceleration. It accelerated things on the premise that more people would die in the short term, but fewer would die in the long term.
Facts had proven that in a world where individual strength was so powerful, his approach could indeed reduce casualties.
For instance, during the battle at Enies Lobby, Smoker and Hina had taken the lead, using their powers to restrain many people and deprive them of their ability to fight, saving countless lives.
This war had been the same. Smoker had been the main fighting force, but Hina had indeed saved many lives—even though they were already enemies.
Such acceleration was nothing more than a matter of prolonged pain versus brief pain.
If Sengoku and Garp still harbored some naive belief that they could defeat the Revolutionary Army, then Smoker and Hina, who had joined the Revolutionary Army years ago, become its core commanders, and learned all of its secrets, knew that defeating the Revolutionary Army was nothing but wishful thinking.
For example, in this war, the Navy's dead man's switch system had come from Magellan's sacrificed poison gas atomization device. But the Revolutionary Army had a dead man's switch system as well. It had originally been prepared for Imu, but since Imu had not come, it had not been activated.
And the key figure in that dead man's