Leo rarely took his wife and child out for a stroll along the streets. With his wife beside him, he no longer had to worry about his safety. One arm held his daughter, while the other held his beloved's hand as they wandered through the shops.
Although he had appeared on camera several times, people of this era did not have such good memories. Combined with the Live Bug's poor image quality, aside from Revolutionary Army snipers who had recognized Leo after seeing Empress, no one else knew who he was.
That was both good and bad.
The good part was that people did not need to know Leo in order to live comfortably and happily in this world. The bad part was that they might come to know only their local leaders and not the Revolutionary Army.
In short, some things had two sides, and one could not look only at their benefits or drawbacks. Ambitious men could not accept the latter, while benevolent rulers could accept the former. Politicians like Leo could see the problems on both sides and then solve them both.
There was an ancient Chinese saying: too much was as bad as too little. It applied everywhere, including politics and governing a nation.
After spending most of the day strolling with his wife and daughter and settling the Whitebeard Pirates' accommodation issue, he returned to his "little wooden house" and continued writing his book.
Some emperors only had influence for a time, but the ideas of certain thinkers could endure for generations. Aside from China, a country that loved recording history, no one cared who the wise emperors or rulers of other nations had been. People did not even like studying their own country's history, much less learning about the histories of others.
Yet many