Clothing?
Betty looked down, a vein bulging on her forehead. "Hey! What I wear is none of your business. I'm dressed like this, and besides, is this the time to be arguing about this?! You Marines came here because you received a signal from the evil Kingdom's army, didn't you?! Just because someone isn't a pirate doesn't mean you have to care!"
She lost the last debate, a crushing defeat that shattered even the morale of the civilians she had painstakingly rallied.
It's not that she's incapable; it's just that this bearded man's reasoning is too strong. His aura and charisma overshadow her abilities and disarm those people's defenses.
But things are different now!
There are no pirates here!
"This kingdom is too exploitative! The king is levying taxes like crazy for his own selfish desires, even though they can't pay anything! The people are suffering too much. I came here to uphold justice. If this king is no good, then we'll change to a different king!"
As she spoke, Betty raised the flag high, the banner waving in the wind. The civilians behind her, as if injected with some kind of adrenaline, straightened their chests, raised their weapons, and roared, "Change the king!!"
Betty held her head high, looking haughty, with a hint of smugness in her eyes behind her sunglasses.
Let's see how this bearded man will respond.
If this bearded man continues to suppress them, then he is unjust, and his justice is a joke. At the same time, it can also break the obsession that has been etched in my mind ever since I met him.
Cass watched these people shouting and yelling quietly, and gradually his expression turned angry.
Wilbur, standing to the side, gave a disdainful smile and asked softly, "Change the king?"
"Yes! Change the king!"
Betty said seriously, "Find someone among those benevolent nobles, or even commoners, who is fit to be king!"
"Then what?"
It wasn't Cass that asked, but Wilbur, "And then what?"
"Then?"
Betty was taken aback. "What else? Then the common people will live a better life!"
"Ignorant!!"
Cass suddenly let out a loud shout, which made Betty's hand, which was holding up the flag, stiffen. She subconsciously lowered it a little. Cass took a step forward, while Betty subconsciously took a step back. Her previous impolite bossy demeanor disappeared at this moment, and instead, she showed an expression that was like that of a little girl.
"What, what are you going to do?"
"How foolish!"
Cass looked pained. "Such resistance, such desperate resistance, and in the end, all you want is a new king?! To hope that the new king will show you mercy again?!"
"Does changing the king bring peace to this country? What is a king? The king is the highest-ranking noble, so the other nobles won't exploit you anymore? You started with nothing, overthrew the country, and were shown mercy by the new king, receiving a small share of compensation. You're able to survive, and you're grateful? You think you've prospered?!"
"How long can the king you elect remain in power? What about his descendants? What about the nobles under the king? Will you return to being exploited, then continue to rebel, and then another king will be chosen? Will this cycle repeat itself, and you will forever live under the exploitation of the nobles?!"
"So, the biggest purpose of your rebellion is nothing more than hoping someone will show you mercy, wanting to be like a dog, rolling around and wagging its tail?!"
“Bello Betty! Is this how your Revolutionary Army operates? No wonder you’ve been like groundhogs for so many years!” Cass roared without any politeness.
The sound made Betty pale, and the hand holding the flag loosened its grip with each of Cass's words, until it finally dropped completely.
"You, what gives you the right to say that!" Betty roared, "What evidence do you have to say that? We are also saving civilians! Your Navy is just a lackey of the World Government. What right do you have to say that we are revolutionaries who are saving civilians!"
"There are signs now."
Cass said in a deep voice, "You have existed for so long and overthrown many countries, but now, apart from losing their membership in the World Government and the Celestial Gold, are those countries any different?"
These words startled Betty. She opened her mouth, but found she couldn't say anything.
Yes, there are signs.
The revolutionary army has existed for a long time, nearly twenty years. They have overthrown many countries, targeting those that are overwhelmed by the burden of the Heavenly Gold, overthrowing their kings, and then installing a new one.
The purpose was to prevent the oppressive tax of "Heavenly Gold" from weighing down the common people of the kingdom, and to ensure that a good king would allow the common people to live in peace.
It was good at first, especially in the first few years. The king was kind and compassionate to the common people. But things got worse and worse later on. Especially recently, Betty has received intelligence that the common people in the countries that were overthrown at the beginning were actually living a pretty bad life. The taxes were still very heavy, and they were just barely surviving. Even with the intervention of their revolutionary army, it was the same. The answer given to them by the nobles and even the king was that taxes had to be paid, otherwise the country could not be sustained.
Without the kingdom, the common people might be in even worse shape, and the revolutionary army has already overthrown it once; they can't overthrow it a second time, as that would tarnish their revolutionary reputation.
"You don't understand, you don't understand at all, that's why I say you're foolish, you're pathetic!"
Cass looked at Betty and the civilians with a pained expression, and said loudly, "Mr. Kuro said that rebellion is not a dinner party. You are too mild-mannered. You are not violent at all! But rebellion is real, undisguised, and utter violence! You who dare not even face this, you who cannot even carry out a thorough rebellion, what right do you have to lead the civilians!"
Cass's expression was solemn. "The common people are just neutral elements. They followed you to overthrow the kingdom, and they acquired that 'rebellious' attribute. And you still expect to continue to live peacefully?!"
"Then what's the point of all that talk? Can you stop these people from being exploited? Do you have a solution?!" Betty couldn't help but shout, "In your words, meaningless criticism is completely useless. You're just nitpicking. We, the revolutionary army, do real things and fight for the common people!"
"Of course!"
Cass opened his eyes wide and shouted, "If we're going to overthrow someone, we must do it thoroughly! We're not just going to overthrow the so-called king, but the entire noble class! Since you've chosen to rebel, then go all the way! Kill the king, kill those nobles, elect a leader who will stand firmly on the side of the common people, and make all the nobles and capital in this kingdom vanish completely!"
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