"Yes! I'm a coward! I dare not fight any longer. I'm scared. The Yan Kingdom's army is too strong. I know our army is no match for them. You're right!"

"So what? Does being a coward mean you don't deserve to live?!"

"Too many people have died in this war. They are husbands, fathers, sons, and their families. Do you want them to die on the battlefield like soldiers, or to go home like cowards? You should ask those people what they think, instead of being high and mighty and treating these people as pawns. This is war, not a game on a chessboard. The price of losing is countless lives!"

“Even today, everyone knows we are no longer able to fight, yet you still want to send millions of people to the battlefield, to shout ‘Never surrender!’ and then lose their lives! What’s the difference between that and sending them to their deaths?” Wolfgang’s face turned red as he roared angrily.

Von Palen, who had been knocked to the ground by a punch, had blood seeping from the corner of his mouth, but he still looked at Wolfgang with a cold gaze.

Wolfgang rushed forward, grabbed von Palen by the collar, and roared:

“You don’t care at all! You always say that the world is cruel and unfair, and that only by fighting can you survive, even if you die in the fight.”

"But don't you know that it takes courage to accept death in the struggle, but it takes even more courage to live?!"

Von Palen, his face growing paler as he was grabbed by the collar, had his hat fall to the ground, while the agitated Wolfgang continued to yell at him:

"You can't accept the reality of our defeat, so you want to drag everyone down with you, making them use defiance as an excuse to escape through death."

"You're not afraid of death, but that's only because you lack the courage to live!"

“Von Palen! You can laugh at me, laugh at everyone who wants to surrender.”

"But I must tell you that if we lose in this war, we have to pay the price. There is nothing wrong with surrendering, and we have to accept whatever the future may be like."

"Survival requires struggle, living requires courage, and you are the real coward!"